Bangladesh's last Test match in the 2023-25 cycle of the ICC Test Championship starts today on Saturday. Bangladesh will play the match at Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica at 9 pm local time. The match will be broadcast live by T-Sports.
Bangladesh's third cycle in the Test Championship started with a win, but the end was a complete loss. Bangladesh has been whitewashed in Test series against Sri Lanka, India, South Africa. New Zealand have only won Tests against Pakistan at the start of the cycle. The whole country is looking forward to see how the team fares against the Caribbean in the final match of the Test cycle.
Bangladesh played 7 matches in the first cycle of Test Championship in 2019-21. They won one match but lost 6. Bangladesh finished the Test Championship at number 9 in the service. In the second cycle, Bangladesh played 12 Tests and finished at the bottom of the points table with one win and one draw. Although there are three wins in this cycle, the position of Bangladesh is not changing much. Even if the Bangladesh team won the Jamaica Test against the Caribbean, there is little chance of changing Shanto's position in the points list.
The venue of the first Test against the Caribbean, Antigua, was not a very tough wicket, but Bangladesh's batsmen had to struggle. The batters failed to score in both the innings. As a result Mehdi Hasan Miraj's team lost by a big margin. A tougher challenge awaits the Bangladesh batsmen than Antigua in Jamaica on Saturday night. The pacers will naturally rule the wicket. West Indies have already announced an unchanged XI. Meanwhile, there may be a change in the Bangladesh XI. Nahid Rana can be seen in place of pacer Shariful Islam. Nahid Rana's arrival is to take advantage of Jamaica's fast and bouncy wicket.
But whatever the bowling department may be, the performance of the Bangladeshi bowlers in recent times is not worrying. The bowlers had brought success in the previous Test as well. They are the ones who brought the team back into the match. But because the batterers could not take the opportunity, they had to lose by a big margin. But the same thing is happening in Jamaica. The recent performance of Bangladesh's batsmen has raised the specter of a three-Test series whitewash.
