It was a disastrous start for the hosts, losing their opening batsman Al Sahariar for a duck to the first ball of their innings, Drakes slipping in a quick one through the defense to rattle the stumps. The big cheering crowd were stunned into silence by the fall of the first wicket, but they slowly became vociferous as Ashraful launched an attack on the extremely quick Jermaine Lawson. Ashraful hit four boundaries off Lawson, which included a glorious cover drive.

Ehsanul Haque (9) on his ODI debut - chipped the ball straight into the hands of Gayle at short mid-wicket to give Drakes his second wicket. Habibul Bashar’s stay at the crease lasted just one ball, cleaned up by Drakes. Bangladesh were reeling at 34/3 in the 9th over, with Drakes was on a hat-trick.

Sanwar Hossain (13) was trapped lbw by Lawson in the 17th over. And Ashraful’s fight was all over in the 24th over, cutting a short ball from Mahendra Nagamootoo straight into the hands of Hinds at backward point. Alok Kapali (10*) has skipper Khaled Mashud for company as Bangladesh look to avoid a heavy defeat.

West Indies scored 189 runs in the second half of their innings, to take the score from 77/2 at the end of the 25th over to 266/4 at the end of the 50th over. With the ball keeping low, it is not going to be an easy run chase for Bangladesh batsmen. It was the superb partnership of 146 runs for the third wicket between Samuels and Sarwan that proved to be the telling factor in West Indies posting a big score.

Samuels was always on the look out for quick runs, and struck two huge sixes in his innings; lofting Alok Kapali over deep backward square leg, and then Ehsanul Haque over long on. Samuels was in fine touch and looked good for a century, but was bowled by a full toss from Naimur Rahman in the 39th over. His knock of 82 came in 119 balls, striking eight boundaries and two sixes.

In the meanwhile Sarwan kept gathering the runs in ones and twos. Ricardo Powell (10) did not last long; he was bowled by Ehsanul Haque. Sarwan found good support in Daren Ganga who remained unbeaten on 21 off 23 balls. In the end it was Sarwan's turn to be the hero, getting to his first ODI hundred to remain unbeaten on 102* (100 balls, 11 fours).

Islam put together a good spell of ten overs at one go finishing with the impressive figures of 10-3-20-1. Marlon Samuels and Ramnaresh Sarwan too have found batting on this sub-standard track a very difficult task. At the end of the 25th over, West Indies have crawled on to 77 for the loss of two wickets.

Samuels started off very slowly and struck a glorious on drive for four through mid-on to step up the tempo. So far he has hit four boundaries in his unbeaten knock of 23 off 68 balls. Sarwan has been quick to use his feet to tackle the low bounce, and is unbeaten on 23 off 36 balls. The two batsmen have so far added 40 runs for the third wicket partnership.

West Indies have made one change to their team; Cameron Cuffy comes in for Corey Collymore. Bangladesh have replaced Hannan Sarkar with Ehsanul Haque, making his ODI debut.

West Indies: CH Gayle, WW Hinds, MN Samuels, RR Sarwan, D Ganga, RL Powell, RD Jacobs (Captain), MV Nagamootoo, VC Drakes, JJC Lawson, CE Cuffy.

BANGLADESH: Khaled Mashud (Captain), Al-Shahriar, Ehsanul Haque, Habibul Bashar, Mohammad Ashraful, Sanwar Hossain, Alok Kapali, Mohammed Rafique, Naimur Rahman, Taposh Baishya, Monjurul Islam.