Mehidy lifts Bangladesh to first innings win

Off-spinner Mehidy Hasan claimed a career-best 12 wickets as Bangladesh thumped West Indies by an innings and 184 runs in Dhaka yesterday to sweep the two-match series.

Hasan took seven for 58 and five for 59 in the first and second innings respectively to help the Tigers bowl out the visitors for 111 and 213 runs on the third day of the second Test.

Bangladesh made 508 runs in their only innings at the Sher-e-bangla National Stadium to claim their first-ever victory by an innings margin. It was Bangladesh’s first Test series win in four years, after they won the opener in Chittagong by 64 runs.

West Indies wilted for 213 all out in the second innings after earning the dubious distinction of becoming the first side ever to be asked to follow-on by Bangladesh in a Test match. Big-hitting Shimron Hetmyer scored an attacking 93 off 92 balls with nine sixes and a four to prevent a total Caribbean collapse in the second innings.

But Mehidy stopped Hetmyer from scoring his maiden Test century when the batsman went for a 10th sixth, but wound up delivering it to Mohammad Mithun at long-on. He then removed Jomel Warrican to complete his second five-wicket haul of the game before finishing with match

figures of 12 for 117 - the best ever Test haul for a Bangladeshi bowler.