Graves’ unbeaten 115 justified his Tremendous 50s type, the place he struck three consecutive centuries earlier this month. He made a really affected person effort, putting simply 4 boundaries in his 206-ball keep. It was the right follow-up after Alick Athanaze and Mikyle Louis, each falling within the nineties on the opening day, had laid the inspiration earlier than.
West Indies declared with Bangladesh needing to bat out a most time of an hour and 45 minutes. However there was no respite for them in opposition to the four-man West Indian tempo assault. Zakir Hasan fell for 15 after he under-edged a Jayden Seales supply onto his stumps. The left-hander struck three fours in his brief keep, all off Seales, however was barely unfortunate with the ball shaving the leg-stump. Mahmudul Hasan Pleasure edged Alzarri Joseph for five, shortly after he was dropped on the identical rating.
It was a good distance from the beginning of the day for the guests, having began the day in the absolute best method by taking two early wickets.
Mahmud eliminated Joshua Da Silva with the fifth ball of the morning session, trapped lbw with a supply that darted into his entrance pad. This was Mahmud’s first wicket within the sport regardless of bowling properly on the primary day. It was additionally his twenty fourth wicket this 12 months, making him the best wicket-taker in a calendar 12 months amongst Bangladesh’s tempo bowlers.
That quantity grew to become 25 when Alzarri fell in Mahmud’s subsequent over. Zakir took an outstanding two-handed catch at gully, harking back to how he opened the Pakistan tour with Abdullah Shafique’s catch at gully in August. If Bangladesh sensed that they had their opening to bowl out West Indies for underneath 300 runs, that was blunted by Roach.
He was the appropriate sort of foil for Greaves, who was keen to grind out the Bangladesh assault. Greaves handed the strike to Roach on occasion, because the pair did not permit any extra wickets within the first session. There have been solely two boundaries in these 26 overs too, however that hardly bothered the house facet who wanted a restoration.
Greaves began the second session together with his third boundary when he pulled Taskin by means of midwicket. He, nevertheless, survived a caught-behind probability on 77 with neither Taskin nor wicketkeeper Jaker Ali (who was deputizing for Litton Das after the primary session) listening to a faint nick. it was solely a replay on the large display screen that confirmed what Bangladesh missed out on.
Shortly afterwards, a Roach single introduced up the staff’s maiden century partnership for the eighth wicket in opposition to Bangladesh. It was adopted by a rain break of seven minutes, after which Roach slammed Mehidy over his head for his first boundary. Mahmud lastly eliminated Roach with a high quality angling supply, clipping the highest of his middle-stump. Their 140-run stand was West Indies’ third-highest for the eighth wicket.
Greaves quickly reached his century together with his fourth boundary shot, driving Taijul by means of the covers. It was probably his greatest shot of the innings and the landmark was solely his second first-class ton.
West Indies declared within the 145th over of their innings, after their tail-enders Seales and Shamar Joseph struck some meaty blows. That left sufficient time for the bowlers to have a crack, which they efficiently did.
Mohammad Isam is ESPNcricinfo’s Bangladesh correspondent. @isam84
