Hope's century lifts Windies to respectable total

Windies' skipper, Rovman Powell, at the toss said that his side needed to bat better if they were to win. However, proceedings were eerily familiar to what has been witnessed throughout Windies' tour of Bangladesh where the batsmen copped another collective failure, being restricted to 198 for 9 on Friday (December 14) in Sylhet, minus the spectacular Shai Hope, who scored his second successive century in the third and final ODI.

It was of little surprise that Bangladesh opted to bowl on a dry wicket. Mehidy Hasan bowled eight overs on the trot, and sent back Chandrapaul Hemraj and Darren Bravo in his prolonged spell, giving little away as Windies made a slow start. Hope, however, once again, led Windies' hope of posting a good total for almost the entire innings, but some reckless shots from the other end, kept the partnerships at bay, with Hope constantly in pursuit of building partnerships from his end. What the failure of the other batsmen also did was up the significance of his innings that spanned 131 balls with another class act, continuing from where he left off in the second ODI.

Windies' batsmen didn't get off to smooth starts. They hardly were able to rotate the strike and keep the scoreboard ticking with the absence of singles. What was further disappointing was their poor shot selection when all they needed to do was keep Hope company in the middle, which they failed to do. Take for example, Roston Chase. After being given the benefit of doubt, surviving a stumping call off Mahmudullah, a loose shot was skied to long on with Soumya Sarkar taking a sharp catch at the boundary, just when a partnership was building. The wicket ended the 34-run stand for the sixth wicket.

Fabian Allen followed suit with another poor shot that was beautifully taken by Mohammad Mithun as Windies slipped further, being reduced to 143 for 7. That, after a middle order failure that was dented by Mehidy Hasan. After his eight, he returned to bowl his last two, picking up a wicket in each to finish with figures of 4 for 29 in his ten as Windies squandered their steady start, after ending the powerplay at 45 for 1.

Keemo Paul added 28 for the eighth wicket, but his leg-stump was uprooted by Mashrafe Mortaza, who was playing his 200th ODI, as Hope entered the nineties. After Kemar Roach was adjudged leg before, and seven short of a century, Hope eventually got to the landmark with a six. And just like in the second ODI where Bravo's 27 was the next-best score for Windies after Hope's century, in the third, Marlon Samuels's 19 was the next-best.

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