Bangladesh pace bowler Nahid Rana felt duly rewarded for the consistent lines he bowled with the ball.
The 22-year-old picked up his maiden five-wicket haul in Tests and, in the process of doing so, was solely focused on not giving any room to the West Indian batters on the third day of the second Test at Jamaica, reports Cricbuzz.
Bangladesh’s lead in the ongoing Kingston Test against the West Indies passed the 200-run mark with five wickets in hand. At the stumps of day three, Bangladesh were batting at 193 for five, with Jaker Ali and Taijul Islam remaining unbeaten for 29 and 9, respectively.
The tourists who are trailing by 1-0 in the series, came up with a brilliant show with both bat and ball as they took complete control of the match.
Rana ended the first innings with figures of 5 for 61 inflicting a big collapse on West Indies as the hosts lost their last nine wickets for 61 runs, ultimately being bowled out for 146.
"Alhamdulillah (for my maiden five wicket haul). I did not try too many things, just worked on seeing how I can bowl without giving room to the batters and how to bowl in different situations," Rana said after the match. "I feel that on this wicket without trying too much if you bowl line to line without giving room to the batters, at that point the batters try a lot of things."
Rana added that if they can put up a lead of 250 runs on the board the tigers will be in a good position to level the series.
"I think we are in good position, and if we can score over 250 it will be difficult to bat for the batters on Day 4 because there will be uneven bounce in the wicket while there will be turn for the spinners." concluded the right-arm fast bowler.
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