Bangla knock WI out

The West Indies bowed out of the tournament, having lost both their Group A league matches.

Bangladesh restricted the West Indies to 164 for eight and reached the victory target with six wickets in hand and two overs to spare.

Ashraful blasted 61 off 27 deliveries and recorded the fastest fifty in a Twenty20 international that came in just 20 balls, while Aftab remained till the end, scoring 62 off 49 deliveries. Ashraful’s innings was studded with seven boundaries and three sixes. Aftab struck eight boundaries and one six.

Electing to field, Bangladesh bowled a disciplined line from the start. Left-arm pacer Syed Rasel bowled with amazing accuracy and gave just 10 runs in his quota of four overs.

Rasel removed the dangerous Chris Gayle, the centurion of the last match, in the very third ball of the innings and from then on West Indies were kept in a tight lease.

The second wicket stand of 95 between Shivnaraine Chanderpaul (37) and Devon Smith (51) kept the scoreboard ticking, albeit at a steady pace, before Dwayne Smith (29) and Marlon Samuels (27) notched up some quick runs.

Smith was particularly attacking and hit four sixes and one boundary. Samuels hit two fours and two sixes in his 14-balls stay.

Spinner Saqibul Hasan grabbed four wickets giving away 34 runs while Abdur Razzak returned figures of two for 25. Bangladesh were slow to get off the blocks and lost two early wickets that reduced them to 2/28.

Ravi Rampaul removed both the openers —Tamim Iqbal and Nazimuddin. The duo of Aftab and skipper Ashraful then came together and took the West Indies attack apart with their power-hitting.

SCOREBOARD

West Indies: C Gayle c Alok Kapali b Syed Rasel 0, Devon Smith b Abdur Razzak 51, S Chanderpaul c Mashrafe Mortaza b Abdur Razzak 37, M Samuels c Shakib Al Hasan b Mohammad Ashraful 27, R Sarwan st Mushfiqur Rahim b Shakib Al Hasan 5, D Ramdin c Mushfiqur Rahim b Shakib Al Hasan 2, Dwayne Smith b Shakib Al Hasan 29, D Bravo st Mushfiqur Rahim b Shakib Al Hasan 2, D Powell not out 1

Extras (lb2, w8): 10; Total (For 8 wkts, in 20 overs): 164

Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-95, 3-104, 4-126, 5-131, 6-155, 7-157, 8-164

Bowling: Syed Rasel 4-1-10-1, Abdur Razzak 4-0-25-2, Mashrafe Mortaza 2-0-16-0, Farhad Reza 2-0-22-0, Shakib Al Hasan 4-0-34-4, Mohammad Ashraful 4-0-55-1.

Bangladesh: Tamin Iqbal c Chanderpaul b Rampaul 10, Nazimuddin c Sarwan b Rampaul 1, Aftab Ahmed not out 62, Mohammad Ashraful c Gayle b Sarwan 61, Shakib Al Hasan c Powell b Sarwan 13, Alok Kapali not out 5

Extras (lb4, w8, nb1): 13; Total (For 4 wkts, 18 overs): 165

Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-28, 3-137, 4-159

Bowling: Powell 3-0-28-0, Rampaul 4-0-35-2, Gayle 4-0-21-0, Edwards 3-0-33-0, Bravo 2-0-34-0, Sarwan 2-0-10-2