3rd T20 Match Windies v Bangladesh 2018

WI  vs  BAN match

BANGLADESH BEAT THE

WEST INDIES

In

3rd T20 Match

Bangladesh win by 19 runs (DLS Method)

T20 3 of 3 (BAN 2-1)

Bangladesh - 184/5 20/20 ov RR: 9.20

Windies - 135/7 17.1/17.1 ov RR: 7.86

v Bangladesh win by 19 runs on the DLS method

v Russell falls after valiant 47 before rain intervenes

v Bangladesh bowlers put them in front

v Windies lose openers in quick succession

v Bangladesh set the Windies 185 to win

Windies Batting	R	B	4s	6s		S/R
Chadwick WaltonCaught, b Soumya Sarkar	19	19	3	0		100.00
Andre Fletcherc Nazmul Islam b Mustafizur Rahman	6	7	1	0	85.71
Marlon Samuelsb Shakib Al Hasan	2	7	0	0	28.57
Rovman Powellc Abu Hider b Mustafizur Rahman	23	20	2	0	115.00
Denesh Ramdin WKTb Rubel Hossain	21	18	1	1	116.66
Andre Russellc Ariful Haque b Mustafizur Rahman	47	21	1	6	223.80
Carlos Brathwaite CPTCaught, b Abu Hider	5	10	0	0	50.00
Ashley Nurse NOT OUT	0	1	0	0	0.00
Keemo Paul	-	-	-	-	-
Kesrick Williams	-	-	-	-	-
Samuel Badree	-	-	-	-	-
Extras(w 5, b 4, lb 3)        12
Total  (7 wickets, 17.1 overs)        135

VS

Bangladesh Batting	R	B	4s	6s		S/R
Liton Dasc Ashley Nurse b Kesrick Williams	61	32	6	3		190.62
Tamim Iqbalc Kesrick Williams b Carlos Brathwaite	21	13	3	1	161.53
Soumya Sarkarc Rovman Powell b Keemo Paul	5	4	1	0	125.00
Mushfiqur Rahim WKTc Denesh Ramdin b Carlos Brathwaite	12	14	1	0	85.71
Shakib Al Hasan CPTc sub (Chadwick Walton) b Keemo Paul	24	22	2	0	109.09
Mahmudullah NOT OUT	32	20	4	1	160.00
Ariful Haque NOT OUT	18	16	1	0	112.50
Nazmul Islam	-	-	-	-	-
Abu Hider	-	-	-	-	-
Rubel Hossain	-	-	-	-	-
Mustafizur Rahman	-	-	-	-	-
Extras(nb 1, w 6, lb 4)         11
Total(5 wickets, 20 overs)     184

 Bangladesh withstood a withering assault from Andre Russell to complete a series-clinching 19-run rain-affected victory against the West Indies in the third and final T20 match on Sunday.

Russell smashed 47 from just 21 deliveries with six towering sixes – including one that travelled 111m and went over the grandstand roof – and one four to keep the Caribbean side in with a chance of surpassing Bangladesh’s formidable total of 5-184 at the Central Broward Stadium in Florida.

However his dismissal at the start of the 18th over, giving left-arm seamer Mustafizur Rahman his third wicket of the innings, effectively sealed the result in favour of Bangladesh.

Russell’s departure at 7-135 after 17.1 overs was immediately followed by a sharp shower which ended any further prospect of play, although there was little chance of the West Indies getting anywhere close to the target off a full 20 overs with all their big-hitters gone.

Having been thrashed in both Tests at the start of the tour, this T20 series triumph follows on the 2-1 success in the ODI contest for the Asian side.

Their formidable total was set up by a career-best effort from Liton Das.

Liton set the tone at the top of the order for his team after captain Shakib al Hasan chose to bat first with a blistering innings of 61 off just 32 balls with six fours and three sixes.

He stole the show from his more experienced and prolific opening partner, Tamim Iqbal, in an opening stand of 61 off just 4.4 overs. Along the way the pair registered the fastest-ever fifty by Bangladesh in T20 International cricket from only 21 deliveries as they tore into the spin of Samuel Badree and Ashley Nurse before also putting the pace of Russell to the sword.

It took the introduction of captain Carlos Brathwaite to engineer the breakthrough when he had Tamim caught at short fine-leg for 21 while Keemo Paul removed Soumya Sarkar cheaply for the second consecutive match to pull the West Indies back into contention.

Brathwaite also accounted for Mushfiqur Rahim while Kesrick Williams ended the rampaging knock of Liton as the Bangladesh innings stuttered when it seemed a total in excess of 200 was assured.

However an unbeaten 32 from Mahmudullah and an unbroken 38-run sixth-wicket stand with Ariful Haque ensured that Bangladesh got up to a competitive total.

West Indies replaced out-of-form opener Evin Lewis with the hard-hitting Chadwick Walton at the top of the order in their only change for this match but it failed to have the desired effect.

Walton and opening partner Andre Fletcher fell cheaply, as did the experienced Marlon Samuels, who was bowled by a shooter from Shakib. Wicketkeeper-batsman Denesh Ramdin put on 45 runs for the fourth wicket with allrounder Rovman Powell but it was the arrival of Russell at the fall of Ramdin’s wicket which revived a flagging West Indies.

He threatened to win the match off his own bat even with wickets continuing to fall around him but a miscued straight hit off a Mustafizur full-toss resulted in the catch at long-off by Ariful and the subsequent Bangladeshi celebrations.

Liton Das, the Bangladesh opener, was understandably thrilled after setting up his team's series-levelling win in the final T20I against the Windies.

Das hit a career-best 32-ball 61 in the deciding Twenty20 International to help Bangladesh win by 19 runs (DLS method), and called the win one of great significance for his side.

"They are a very good team, they are the last World Cup [ICC World T20] champions, so this is a very important win for us," Das gushed.

He was modest about his own contribution to the victory, saying that he was lucky to have scored his first half-century in white-ball cricket. "The pitch was okay, it was similar to our country's wickets. This is my first fifty and I'm lucky," he said.

A vocal Bangladesh crowd backed their team all the way, keeping up the noise at all times, as the Windies stopped at 135/7 [17.1 overs] in response to Bangladesh's 184/5.

Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan was pleased with the result, and lauded his team for bouncing back from defeat in the first game to take the series with back-to-back wins in Lauderhill.

"Unbelievable effort from the boys, after losing the first game we have shown a lot of character," he beamed. "As I told you in the previous presentation, we have the belief that we can win matches. We were playing against the world champions and the way all the boys showed character, I think we'll take a lot of confidence. Our record doesn't show great performances in T20, so hopefully from here we can kick on.

This T20I series will give us the confidence that we can beat big teams and we know now how to win matches, especially tight matches. We kept on losing so many matches that were close but now we have started to win.

And on the supporters: "Very pleased the way we were supported. So many Bangladeshis they came from different parts of the US. They were supposed to fly back today but they stayed back because we won yesterday. Thanks to them we never felt like we were away from home, they played like a 12th man for us."

Things were slightly gloomy for Carlos Brathwaite, however. The Windies captain said that his batsmen needed to come up with better plans, particularly in light of upcoming tours to the sub-continent.

"We still need to be more sure with our plans while batting, especially against spin. We'll be going to Bangladesh and India so it will be even more important to execute our plans against spin," Brathwaite said.

He gave credit to his bowlers for reining things in during the death overs, hampering Bangladesh after a belligerent start. "Kudos must go to the bowlers, the kind of start they we were staring at about 210-220, so keeping them down to 150 was a good job.