Bangladesh record their lowest Test total on Wednesday when they bundled out for humiliating 43 runs in 18.4 overs in their ongoing Test against West Indies at Antigua.
Kemar Roach, in the first nine overs, clinched a spectacular five-wicket haul as he dismissed Bangladesh’s Tamim Iqbal, Mominul Haque, Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib Al Hasan and Mahmudullah as the visiting side stooped down to 18 for 5 in 8.5 overs.
In the next 25 runs, the duo of West Indian skipper Jason Holder and Miguel Cummins cleaned up the rest of the Bangladeshi line-up to hand them a record they will regret for a very long time.
Bangladesh’s previous lowest Test total was 62 all out which they had made against Sri Lanka in 2007 at PSS Colombo. Bangladesh’s 43 also was the lowest Test total since India’s 42 in 1974 and joint-sixth lowest total in the history of Test cricket.
Apart from one, the other 10 batsmen scored in a single digit, which included four duck outs. Bangladesh’s opening batsman Liton Das was their top-scorer with 25 runs off 53 balls and the next best knock came from Rubel Hossain’s six runs off 10 balls.
Having dropped below the Bangladeshis in the Test rankings to number nine, there is additional incentive for Jason Holder's team to win the series which begins in Antigua and move back up to number eight at the expense of their Asian opponents.
With the second Test to follow at Sabina Park in Jamaica a week later, the tourists would have noted carefully the quality of the playing surfaces for the just-concluded three-Test series against Sri Lanka, which ended on a bowler-friendly pitch at Kensington Oval in Barbados.
