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4th U-19 ODI…Bangladesh take 3-1 lead against young Windies with 4-wkt win at Everest
By Sean Devers
Another ordinary batting performance by the West Indies handed Bangladesh an easy four-wicket win in the fourth under-19 ODI at the Everest ground yesterday as the visitors took a 3-1 lead in the seven-match series.
West Indies struggled to 144 all out 46.3 overs on the spin-friendly pitch as Skipper Mehedi Miraj captured 5-17 in a mesmerizing 10-over spell of off-spin bowling, while Bangladesh, on the back of a confident 60 from Nazmul Shanto, responded with 144-6 in the 40th over. 
Bangladesh lost two wickets in the second over as West Indies fought back defending their small total as the lively Vincentian Ray Jordon trapped Mumin Jummon LBW for one to leave the score on 4-2.
This was after Sadman Anik, who made a delightful 95 in the last match, was run out one run earlier.
The two best batsmen in the Bangladesh side, Udddin Jashim, with two half centuries in this series, and Mossadek Saikat, joined forces to revive the position with a 25-run stand before the inform Jashim (16) drove Jordon (2-23) to cover at 29-3.
Shanto looked very confident as he used his feet nicely and played with soft hands in his 42-run partnership with Saikat as the West Indies spinners struggled to extract the same amount of turn as the Bangladesh spinners did on an ideal track for spin bowling.
The largest crowd of the series watched as Sikat (22) edged a cut at Gudakesh Motie-Kanhai to Nicholas Pooran at 71-4 before Shanto and Miraj featured in an 60-run partnership with Shanto bringing up his 50 with a boundary in the 35th over.
Miraj (27) and Shanto (60) were removed by off-spinner Ramaal Lewis (2-24) with the score on 140 but by then victory was just five runs away.
Earlier, West Indies won the toss and elected to bat on a dusty two-pace track, on another day blessed with glorious sunshine and quickly lost both openers to fast bowler Prodhan Rifat who got prodigious away movement away from the right-handers.
After he got going with a delightful boundary Shemron Hetymer soon played too early and was taken at mid off for eight with the score on 13-1, while Leroy Lugg, who made a duck, was trapped LBW three runs later.
On a pitch which again favoured the visitors, left-hander Jeremy Solozano who looked the most accomplished batsman on the West Indies team, was joined by Fabian Allen as spin replaced the pacers with the tide from the Atlantic Ocean ‘coming in’.
With the moisture from the Ocean causing the ball to bounce and turn alarmingly, Allen (8) was trapped LBW in the 16th over as the 15-year-old Miraj struck. Two balls later Pooran, just back from the CPL in India with the Trinidad and Tobago team, was bowled by Miraj as he attempted to cut a ball too close to him without addition to the score.
Tristian Coleman joined Solozano but was soon bowled by Miraj for four. Miraj continued to spin webs around the home team batsmen and quickly bowled Lewis (1) as West Indies slumped 50-6.
Marquino Mindley hits out for the young West Indies during his valuable 39. (WICB)
When Solozano (20) was brilliantly taken at slip by Rifat to give Miraj his fifth wicket, West Indies were 51-7 and in danger of being bowled out below their lowest ever ODI total of 88 which they made in their previous match at the Stadium. Marquino Mindley fought fire with fire and counter-attacked the spinners, while Guyanese Motie-Kanhai offered sensible support as they added 64 runs for the eighth wicket to take their 115 before Mindley was taken in the deep off leg-spinner Likhon Zubair for a valuable 39.
With the dismissal of Mindley, Motie-Kanhai took over and reached 39 with positive stroke-play before Zubair got rid of Ray Jordon (2) and Motie-Kanhai in quick succession as the West Indies folded with 21 balls remaining.
Zubair supported with three wickets while Rifat captured two and the fifth ODI is scheduled for Providence tomorrow in a day/night encounter from 13:30hrs.
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