DHAKA:   Bangladesh scored 259 with the loss of five wickets on the 1st day of the second Test against touring West Indies at city’s Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Friday (November 30).

Captain Shakib Al Hasan remains unbeaten on 55 runs from 113 balls and Mahmudullah Riyad on 31 from 39 balls.

Mushfiqur Rahim becomes second Bangladesh man to score 4000 Test runs.

Earlier, Tamim Iqbal had become the first to reach the mark in West Indies.

Shadman Islam hit his debut fifty off 147 deliveries in his debut Test cricket.

Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat first in the second Test.

Bangladesh XI:

Shadman Islam, Soumya Sarkar, Mominul Haque, Mohammad Mithun, Shakib Al Hasan (capt), Mushfiqur Rahim, Mahmudullah, Liton Das (wk), Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Taijul Islam, Nayeem Hasan

West Indies XI:

Kraigg Brathwaite (capt), Kieran Powell, Shai Hope, Sunil Ambris, Roston Chase, Shimron Hetmyer, Shane Dowrich (wk), Jomel Warrican, Devendra Bishoo, Kemar Roach, Shermon Lewis

BDST: 2007 HRS, NOV 30, 2018

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