Tigers staring at defeat despite Khaled’s maiden five-for

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The Bangladesh batters put up yet another listless batting show to put the side in a position of embarrassing defeat in the second and final Test despite a stellar effort of pace bowler Syed Khaled Ahmed at Darren Sammy National Cricket Stadium in St Lucia on Sunday.

The visitors however reached 132-6 at stumps on day three, still trailing by 42 runs to make West Indies batting for the second time. They got the blessings of rain which disrupted the proceedings of day three quite several times and surely prevented them from tasting defeat inside three days, given the way the batters threw away their wicket, BSS reports.

Khaled claimed 5-106, his maiden five-wicket haul in Test cricket but West Indies still ended up with 408 before being all out in the first innings. Kyle Mayers led the charge with a scintillating 146 as the Caribbean side finally took a 174-run lead.

Captain Kraigg Brathwaite was the other notable scorer with 51 while his fellow opener John Campbell made 45. Jermain Blackwood added 40.

Mayers put on two big partnerships to help the side rally towards a big total after West Indies were reduced to 132-4.

He firstly put on 116-run partnership with Jermaine Blackwood for the fifth wicket stand and later added another 96-run with Joshua Da Silva who contributed 29.

Khaled broke the resistance of Mayers, removing him when he was guiding the lower order astutely. He then took the wicket of Alzzari Joseph and Jayden Seals to complete his maiden five-wicket haul. Offspinner Mehidy Hasan Miraz snared 3-91 and Shoriful Islam picked up 2-76.

The pitch looked absolutely good to bat on but Bangladesh batters faltered again in familiar manner. Senior most batter Tamim Iqbal led the listless batting show, being out trying to chase a wide delivery -the dismissal was the carbon copy of his first innings dismissal.

The way the senior batter threw away his wicket for the second consecutive time in the match left everyone in shocked state and even the commentators mentioned the dismissal as utmost disappointing.