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West Indies team celebrating after winning the first T20.
Bangladesh has defeated West Indies by 7 runs in the first T-20 match. Bangladesh has defeated West Indies for the first time in T-20 at home. In the match played in St. Vincent on Monday, Bangladesh, batting first, scored 147 for 6 wickets in 20 overs. In reply, the West Indies team was limited to 140 runs in 19.5 overs.
Bangladesh has taken a 1-0 lead in the 3-match series. The second match will be played in Kingston on 18 December. All-rounder Mehdi Hasan remained unbeaten after scoring 26 runs. After that 4 wickets were also lost. He was chosen player of the match.
Sarkar scored the highest score of 43 runs for Bangladesh. Playing first after losing the toss, Bangladesh lost 3 wickets till the score was 30. After this Soumya Sarkar and Zaker Ali took over the innings. Soumya scored 43 runs on 32 balls and Zaker scored 27 runs on 27 balls. Mehdi Hasan played an unbeaten inning of 26 runs. In the end, Shamim Hussain scored 27 runs in 13 balls and took the team to the score of 147 runs. Akil Hussain and Obed McCoy took 2-2 wickets for West Indies. Roston Chase and Romario Shepherd got 1-1 wicket.
Powell scored 60 runs on 35 balls West Indies, while chasing the target, lost its 5 wickets till the score of 38 runs. Captain Rovman Powell scored a half-century, but could not win. Powell scored 60 runs on 35 balls. Romario Shepherd contributed 22 runs and Johnson Charles contributed 20 runs. Mehdi Hasan took 4 wickets for Bangladesh. Taskin Ahmed and Hasan Mahmood took 2-2 wickets. Tanzeem Hasan and Rishad Hussain got 1-1 wicket.
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