With his team bidding to overhaul a West Indies total of 142 for 7 to win today’s do-or-die ICC T20 World Cup clash, Bangladesh captain Mohammad Mahmudullah needed four runs off the last ball of the innings. He swung at a full Andre Russell delivery just wide of off-stump. And …
Read More »Bonner, Cornwall, spinners in spotlight as Brathwaite’s mighty minnows make it 2-0
As expected, Kraig Brathwaite’s second-string West Indies completed a 2-0 win over hosts Bangladesh in four-days with an exciting 17-run win in Dhaka on Sunday. Not at all! Perhaps all the people for whom those first two words belong in that sentence were either on or near the Shere Bangla …
Read More »Bangladesh make light work of West Indies; things look dark for Holder’s men
First, the good news: Jason Holder’s West Indies got a record-breaking performance in today’s crucial match-up against Bangladesh in Taunton, which they lost by seven wickets. The defeat effectively ends the WI chances of making the final four, their tally of three points likely to yield a maximum of nine …
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