Overview
- Alick Athanaze made 52 off 33 and Shai Hope hit 55 off 36 in a 105-run stand as West Indies posted 149/9 after choosing to bat.
- Mustafizur Rahman led Bangladesh’s fightback with 3-21, supported by Nasum Ahmed’s 2-35 and Rishad Hossain’s 2-20.
- Tanzid Hasan’s 61 kept Bangladesh in the chase, but the hosts closed on 135/8 as Romario Shepherd took 3/29, Akeal Hosein 3/22, and Jason Holder 2/20.
- The result gave West Indies an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series, with the final T20I set for October 31 at the same venue.
- Hosein’s three-wicket haul was reported to move him past Dwayne Bravo into second on West Indies’ T20I wicket list, and in India the match streamed on FanCode with no live TV telecast.