Soumya Sarkar could have returned in the first over of the innings. Alzari Joseph's fourth ball was swinging lightly and going outside. But Soumya's drive before settling on the wicket. The ball hits the edge of the bat and goes to the hands of Brendan King at slip. King couldn't take that easy catch. Soumya did not let the 'life' in the beginning go in vain. He played an innings of 73 runs from 73 balls at the moment of need for the team.
Bangladesh were in danger from the start to avoid a whitewash in the third ODI of the series in St. Kitts today. Losing the toss and batting, he lost 2 wickets for 9 runs. After that, Bangladesh turned around in the fight of Soumya and Mehdi Hasan Miraj for the third wicket. Later, the pair of Mahmudullah and Zaker Ali Anik for the sixth wicket. Bangladesh also scored 321 runs for 5 wickets in four fifty. This is Bangladesh's highest score in ODIs on West Indies soil. And the second highest among all venues.
Soumya got life for the second time with a personal 45 runs. Spinner Gurakesh Motty was caught for two consecutive sixes over long on. In the end, this opener had to return with Moti's ball. After the fifty, he fell into the LBW trap as he became formidable. Couldn't live with the reviews. He made a partnership of 136 runs with Mirage before returning.
Jhal Alzari made up for not being able to return Soumya to the start by coming to bowl their second over. Opener Tanjid Hasan sent back Tamim and Liton Das in the space of three balls. Tanjid (0) gave the catch while pulling. After two balls, Liton was caught at slip while punching the ball outside off (0). This time King did not make a mistake standing in the slip. 2, 4 and 0 – these are Lytton's runs in the Windies series. He could not reach double figures in his last 7 innings in ODIs.
After that Soumya-Miraj pair. After settling down on the wicket, the two increased the run rate by hitting boundaries at the gaps. Bangladesh's powerplay score stands at 46/2. Like Soumya, Miraj also missed out on a century. A misunderstanding with Afif Hossain (15) while taking runs, the Bangladesh captain's 78-run innings of 73 balls with 8 fours and 2 sixes was stopped by Sherfan Rutherford's direct hit.
Mahmudullah and Zaker took Bangladesh to Run Pahar. The pair scored an uninterrupted 150 runs off 117 balls. Mahmudullah was unbeaten on 84 and Zaker on 62 runs.
