Toss West Indies choose to bat vs Bangladesh
West Indies captain Roston Chase opted to bat first within the second Check towards Bangladesh in Sylhet. West Indies have been with out in-form top-order batters John Campbell and Tagenarine Chanderpaul, who have been each dominated out “because of a viral fever”, a Cricket West Indies assertion stated.
Kevin Wickham, the 23-year-old top-order batter from Barbados, was handed his Check debut, and listed at No. 3 within the workforce sheet. Wickham has scored 1472 runs at a mean of 40.88 and hit six centuries in 25 first-class matches, with a prime rating of 153.
Joshua Da Silva returned to the facet after lacking the second Check towards Sri Lanka and the primary Check towards Bangladesh. Though he was listed to play as an opener, he has by no means batted above No. 5 in Checks. Amir Jangoo, although, was listed as West Indies’ wicketkeeper.
Bangladesh, in the meantime, additionally made two adjustments. They introduced Mushfiqur Rahim and Taskin Ahmed again rather than Mominul Haque and Shoriful Islam, respectively. Mushfiqur had missed the primary Check because of a finger damage, whereas Mominul is out of the second Check with a head damage.
West Indies are 1-0 up within the two-match sequence towards Bangladesh, having comfortably received the primary Check in Dhaka by eight wickets. That is West Indies’ final Check within the World Check Championship 2025-27 cycle, whereas Bangladesh nonetheless have sequence left towards South Africa (away) and England (dwelling).
Bangladesh: 1 Shadman Islam, 2 Tanzid Hasan, 3 Najmul Hossain Shanto (capt), 4 Towhid Hridoy, 5 Mushfiqur Rahim, 6 Litton Das (wk), 7 Mehidy Hasan Miraz, 8 Nayeem Hasan, 9 Taskin Ahmed, 10 Taijul Islam, 11 Hasan Mahmud
West Indies: 1 Joshua Da Silva, 2 Brandon King, 3 Kevin Wickham, 4 Kavem Hodge, 5 Amir Jangoo (wk), 6 Roston Chase (capt), 7 Justin Greaves, 8 Joshua Bishop, 9 Shamar Joseph, 10 Jomel Warrican, 11 Jayden Seales