Dhaka: Mehdi Hasan Miraj's team lost to West Indies by a big margin of 7 wickets in St. Kitts.

The hosts won the three-match series with one ODI remaining with a win in 79 balls.

Bangladesh and West Indies played the second match on the same wicket at Warner Park in St. Kitts on Tuesday. Windies’ captain Shai Hope won the toss and sent Bangladesh to bat to gain an advantage from the wicket. However, the home bowlers could not gain an advantage and Bangladesh gave away wickets in a blundering batting.

Soumya Sarkar (2) gave a catch despite batting straight at a full-length ball. Liton was out in a spectacular manner after playing just 4 runs in 19 balls. After that, Miraj (1) was played on while leaving the ball. Tanjid Tamim was giving hope at one end. He returned to score 46 runs in 33 balls with four fours and two sixes, Bangladesh lost 4 wickets for 64 runs.

From there, Bangladesh lost 7 wickets in quick succession and were reduced to 115 for 7. From there, Mahmudullah Riyad and Tanjim Shakib put on a 92-run partnership. Tanjim returned with 45 runs with four fours and two sixes. Riyad was dismissed for 62 runs off 92 balls with four sixes and two fours, and Bangladesh were all out for 227 runs in 45.5 overs.

Chasing Bangladesh's target of 227 runs, the West Indies' opening partnership of Brandon King (82) and Evin Lewis (49) laid the foundation for 109 runs. Nahid Rana and Rishad Hossain gave Bangladesh wickets. However, the innings of Casey Carty (45) and Shai Hope (17*) took the team to the port of an easy victory.

Bangladesh retained the U-19 Asia Cup title. In the final on Sunday (December 8), they defeated the powerful India by 59 runs. India is the eight-time champion of this tournament!

Bangladesh came out to bat in this final in Dubai after losing the toss. Bangladesh's innings ended at 198 runs in 49.1 overs. There is no way to call it a very good or a big score. But India, as soon as they set out to chase this run, was crushed by Bangladesh's pace bowling storm. India's innings ended at 139 runs. Bangladesh won the final by a huge margin of 59 runs.

This calculation of wins and losses shows that the final match was completely one-sided. India's batters could not stand up to Bangladesh's planned and disciplined bowling attack.

Bangladesh's innings did not start well. Opener Kalam Siddiqui was bowled for just 1 run off 16 balls. Bangladesh captain Azizul Hakim, who was in great form throughout the tournament, also failed to go far in the final. He returned for 16 runs off 28 balls. In the middle order, two batters Mohammad Shihab James and Rizan Hossain took Bangladesh's innings forward. They added 62 runs for the fourth wicket. This pair gave Bangladesh the courage to take the lead. However, both were set out. James played an effective innings of 40 runs off 67 balls with 1 six and 3 boundaries. Rizan Hossain deserved his half-century with the way he was playing. But he too returned for 47 runs off 65 balls. Rizan was dismissed by spinner Hardik Raj.

Farid Hasan and Maruf Mridha showed some determination with the bat in the ninth wicket partnership, taking Bangladesh's score to 198 runs.

The Bangladesh team will have to attack India's batting from the beginning to win by defending this run. The bowlers were very successful in that effort. The two opening pacers Al Fahad and Maruf Mridha were successful in their opening spells. India lost 2 wickets for 39 runs in the power play. Rizan Hossain, who was very successful with the bat, showed success as soon as he came to bowl. He bowled Siddharth, who was becoming dangerous, with the third ball of his over.

Another pacer, Iqbal Hossain Emon, was the team's best performer with the ball in the final, like in the rest of the tournament. Iqbal basically gave Bangladesh the match by taking two wickets in two balls.

India lost 7 wickets before the score reached 100 runs. Then it was the 27th over of their innings. India was waiting for something dramatic to recover from such a situation and win the match.

But none of the rest of the team could do anything amazing with the bat. Bangladesh won in a dominating manner.

Brief Scores-

Bangladesh U-19: 198/10 in 49.1 overs (Jawad 20, Kalam 1, Azizul 16, Shihab 40, Rizan 47, Debashis 1, Farid 39, Samiun 4, Al Fahad 1, Maruf 11*, Emon 1; Yudhajit Guha 9.1.-1-29-2, Chetan 1-0-0-48-2, Nikhir 5-1-13-0, Kiran 7-0-19-1, Hardik 10-0-41-2, Kartia 7-0-37-1, Ayush 1-0-9-1).

India U-19: 139/10 in 35.2 overs (Ayush 1, Vaibhav 9, Siddharth 20, Karthiya 21, Aman 26, Nikhil 0, Harvansh 0, Kiran 1, Hardik 24; Maruf 6-0-23-2, Fahad 8-0-23-1, Riaz 8-2-13-0, Emon 7-1-24-4, Samiun 5-0-15-0, Azizul 2.2-1-8-3).

Result: Bangladesh U-19 won the final by 59 runs.

Man of the Match and Man of the Tournament: Iqbal Hossain Emon.

The bowlers basically did the job of winning the semi-final. The batters only walked into the bowlers' well-kept garden for the rest of the time. With that, the Bangladesh U-19 team reached the Asia Cup final. They won the semi-final by 7 wickets. In the final, Bangladesh will play against India in the final of this tournament. In the other semi-final of this tournament in Dubai, India beat Sri Lanka by 7 wickets to get a ticket to the final.

Bangladesh and India will fight in the Youth Asia Cup final on December 8.

Today, Friday, Bangladesh won the toss in Dubai and chose to bowl. Pakistan started losing wickets from the first over of the match. Both openers returned for zero runs. After losing the first two wickets for 7 runs in 2.3 overs, Pakistan could not handle the shock. They lost 5 wickets after scoring 74 runs in 25 overs. At one down, Mohammad Riazullah and middle-order batsmen Farhan Yousuf put up some resistance, and Pakistan's score somehow reached three figures. Riazullah scored 28 runs off 65 balls. Yousuf scored 32 runs off 32 balls.

Bangladesh's medium pacer Iqbal Hossain Emon destroyed Pakistan's batting. Emon took 4 wickets for just 24 runs in 7 overs, including 1 maiden. Maruf Mridha took 2 wickets for 23 runs. Captain Azizul Hakim Tamim showed great intelligence in this match by rotating his seven bowlers. Pakistan could not even play the full over of the quota. They were bundled out for just 116 runs in 37 overs.

Chasing a modest target of 117 runs for victory, Bangladesh did not start well. Opener Kalam Siddiqui returned for a duck. Before the power play ended, another opener Jawad Abrar also returned for 17 runs off 25 balls. The team's score was only 28. However, Bangladesh overcame that crisis with the batting of captain Azizul Hakim and Mohammad Shihab James. Their 57 runs for the third wicket partnership put Bangladesh on the path to victory. Captain Azizul Hakim has been in great form in the tournament. In this match too, he smiled with his bat and scored an unbeaten 61 runs off 42 balls. The Bangladesh team smiled with him.

Without any hurry to win, Bangladesh followed the method and won by 7 wickets.

Short scores

Pakistan: 116/10 (37 overs, Riazullah 28, Yousuf 32, Emon 2/24, Maruf 2/23). Bangladesh: 120/3 (22.1 overs, Azizul Hakim 61*, James 26). Result: Bangladesh won by 7 wickets.

After 15 years, Bangladesh was able to defeat them again on West Indies soil. In 2009, Bangladesh won both Tests during their tour of West Indies. It was a second-tier West Indies team. In between, Bangladesh went to the Caribbean and was whitewashed in Tests three more times. After 15 years, that streak ended. Bangladesh won the second Test of the series at Sabina Park in Kingston with a big win of 101 runs. The series ended in a 1-1 draw.

After a big loss in the first Test, Mehedi Miraj, who was given the lead, won the toss and batted in the second and final Test in order to turn around. His team suffered a batting disaster. They were all out for just 164 runs. Opener Sadman Islam scored the highest score of 64 runs for the team.

In reply, young fast pacer Nahid Rana bowled out the West Indies for 146 runs with excellent bowling. He took 5 wickets in an innings for the first time in his career. Bangladesh took a lead of 18 runs from the first innings.

Bangladesh scored 268 runs in the second innings thanks to Zaker Ali's determination. Zaker played an innings of 91 runs with one end. In addition, Shadman 46 and Miraj added 42 runs. Bangladesh set the hosts a target of 287 runs to win.

The Caribbeans were all out for 185 runs on the back of left-arm spinner Taijul Islam. Opener and captain Brathwaite scored 43 runs for the team. Kavem Hogg added 55 runs. Taijul took 5 wickets for 50 runs in 17 overs.