Bangladesh win ODI series against Wes Indies – BAN defeat WI by 3 wickets in a thriller

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Bangladesh's players celebrate their ODI series victory over the West Indies, West Indies v Bangladesh, 2nd ODI, Dominica, July 28, 2009

Bangladesh win the ODI series by three wickets;
Bangladesh 276 for 7 (Shakib 65, Ashraful 64) beat West Indies 274 for 5 (Dowlin 100*, Smith 44)

Bangladesh is sailing high with their first Test series win and now they have managed to get the ODI series too under their belt. The match was quite a thriller and Bangladesh managed to win this one by chasing a decently large total of 274.

None other than Shakib and Ashraful took the lead of getting the Bangladesh side to a 3 wicket victory with an interesting chase of 274 runs.

West Indies put into bat first scored 274 runs thanks to the maiden century by Travis Dowlin and a good partnership developed along with Devon Smith who scored 44 runs. West Indies must have been confident about the run chase which the Bangladesh team had not been able to score something beyond this. But Shakib and Ashraful had different plans, they steadied the innings with a brilliant partnership after Raqibul Hasan couldnot hang around longer.

Bangladesh will cherish this chase and the series win thanks to the brilliance of Shakib Al Hasan the new captain of the side in Mashrafe’s absence.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009