Cricket
Bangladesh edge slender lead
2012-11-16 08:08
Dhaka - West Indies were eight without loss
in their second innings at lunch on the fourth day after bowling
Bangladesh out for 556, with a draw appearing the most likely result of
the first Test in Dhaka.
Chris Gayle was unbeaten on seven and
Kieran Powell on one not out as the West Indies looked to score quickly
after Nasir Hossain had helped the home side to a slender 29-run lead
but missed out on a maiden century by four runs.
The West Indies had made 527-4 in their first innings on a lifeless Shere Bangla pitch.
The
20-year-old Nasir, playing only his fifth Test, slammed four sixes and
six boundaries during his brisk 136-ball knock - improving on his
previous best of 79 he made against Pakistan at the same venue last
year.
Resuming at 455-6, Bangladesh slowly progressed towards the
West Indian total with Mohammad Mahmudullah reaching his fifth
half-century in Test cricket.
Sunil Narine, who went wicket-less
on the third day, then came into his own by dismissing Mahmudullah,
caught by Kieran Powell for 62 and then four runs later had Sohag Gazi
bowled for four.
Sensing Bangladesh would fall short of the West
Indian total, Nasir took it upon himself to attack, adding 61 for the
ninth wicket with Shahadat Hossain (13) and pushing his team into the
lead.
Nasir hit two sixes off Veerasammy Permaul and one off
Narine to enter 90s but played one shot too many and was caught off a
miscued lofted shot off paceman Tino Best, just four short of his maiden
hundred.
Narine wrapped up the innings by dismissing Hossain to finish with 3-148. Paceman Ravi Rampaul took 3-118.