Shai’s superb 146 keeps Windies’ hopes alive
dhaka — Opener Shai Hope smashed an unbeaten 146 to help West Indies beat Bangladesh off the third last ball and send their one-day international series to a decider on Tuesday.
Bangladesh made 255-7 and Hope single-handedly thwarted the host with a career-best ODI knock to hold together the West Indies’ winning reply of 256-6 and keep the series alive.
The third and final match is on Friday back at Sylhet.
Bangladesh looked set to secure a third straight bilateral series win when it exposed the West Indies tail at 185-6.
But Hope shared an unbeaten 71 off 64 balls with Keemo Paul for the seventh wicket, in which Paul contributed only 18.
The West Indies needed 32 off the last 18 balls to win and scored 10, including a Hope six back over bowler Rubel Hossain.
The equation dropped to 22 off 12, and Hope brought victory in sight by hitting pacer Mustafizur Rahman for three boundaries — all of them from the same perfectly manufactured shot — in a 16run penultimate over.
Paul ended up hitting the winning runs, as the West Indies finally beat Bangladesh on this tour after three heavy defeats in the Tests and first one-dayer.
Hope’s match-defining innings of 146 not out off 144 balls was laced with a dozen boundaries and three sixes. It was his third century.
Bangladesh scored just 26 runs in the last five overs as fast bowlers Kemar Roach and Oshane Thomas varied their pace cleverly to curb the batsmen’s aggression.
For Bangladesh, Shakib Al Hasan was the highest scorer with a 62-ball 65. Mushfiqur added 62 and opener Tamim Iqbal 50.
After being sent in to bat first, Bangladesh fell in trouble when opener Liton Das retired hurt because of an ankle injury, but he came back later to bat and made 8.
7-239
oDI SerIeS tIeD 1-1
T. Iqbal c Roach b Bishoo L. Das c Hetmyer b Paul I. Kayes c Hope b Thomas M. Rahim c Hope b Thomas Shakib Al Hasan b Roach M. Riyad c Hetmyer c Powell S. Sarkar c Bishoo b Thomas M. Mortaza not out
M. Hasan not out
(b1, lb3, w9, nb5)
1-14, 2-125, 3-132, 4-193, 5-208, 6-234,
Roach 10-0-39-1(w2, nb1), Thomas 10-0-54-3 (w3, nb2), Chase 3-022-0 (w3), Paul 10-0-68-1 (w1, nb1), Bishoo 10-1-27-1 (nb1), Powell 7-0-41-1
3 146 27 26 14 1 9 18 12
1-5, 2-70, 3-132, 4-155, 5-157, 6-185 Shakib 10-0-28-0, Mehidy 9-0-39-1(w1), Mustafizur 10-1-63-2 (w2), Mashrafe 10-1-52-1 (w2, nb1), Mahmudullah 1.4-0-12-0, Rubel 9-0-57-2 (w1)
West Indies won by four wickets West Indies