Bangladesh will chase 171 for a win against the West Indies in their first Super 10 encounter of the World Twenty20 on Tuesday. The Tigers put up a dismal show of wayward bowling and horrible fielding to help the Caribbeans’ causes. Openers Dwayne Smith smashed a quick-fire 72 off 43 balls while Chris Gayle made a run-a-ball 48 to power their side to 171 for 7 at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur. Smith put wayward Bangladeshi bowlers to sword early on as Gayle was biding his time happy to just rotate strike. Gayle perished in the first ball of the 19th over when he mistimed the loft to long off where Tamim Iqbal took the catch. He paddled back, flicked the ball, went back and came inside the ropes to complete the catch. Pacer Al-Amin Hossain was on a hat-trick when he sent back Marlon Samuels (18 off 22 balls) and Andre Russel for a duck. He sent back captain Dwayne Bravo for a golden duck when Tamim flew to his right and plucked the thick edge from thin air at short third man. The Jamaican left-hander who was struggling broke free when he hit Shakib Al Hasan for a four and a six down the ground in the 17th over. Smith, who smashed spinner Sohag Gazi for four boundaries in the 10th over that yielded 17 runs, slog-swept Mahmudullah but the ball ballooned off the top-edge to square leg where Al-Amin Hossain took it on the second attempt. Two balls later, Shakib struck with his first delivery to send Lendl Simmons for a duck with a flighted one heading down the leg. Simmons missed the clip and thought the ball had gone past the wicketkeeper and walked out of his ground. Mushfiqur Rahim whipped the bails off. Bangladesh won the toss and put the defending champions in to bat. Bangladesh have made four changes to the squad that lost to Hong Kong last week. Spinner Shohag Gazi has replaced Farhad Reza wile injured pacer Rubel Hossain made way for allrounder Ziaur Rahman. Top-order batsmen Mominul Haque and pacer Mashrafe Mortaza have come in for left-arm spinner Abdur Razzak and struggling middle-order batsman Nasir Hossain. West Indies have gone in with an unchanged line-up. – bdnews24.com
