and welcome back let's bowl off with some cricket shall we spinner Jamal Warrican grabbed three late
wickets to ensure the west enders shared the opening day honors with host Bangladesh in the
first test in Chittagong preston reports the home team reached 242 for five at stumps the
day began with smiles and applause as jamaican and kruma bonner and barbadians kyle mayers
and shane mosley received the maroon caps as debitants for the caribbean side in test cricket
after winning the toss and choosing to bat opener shadman islam put the windy's pacers to work as he
played a variety of shots to get off the mark and into double figures tamim iqbal also joined in on
the act with a boundary of the bowling of kemar roach and shannon gabriel as he was searching to
find his stride but iqbal didn't stick around as roach clean bowled him for nine with a score at 23
for one inside the fifth over this brought najmul shanto to the crease who was not afraid to express
himself and played a handful of boundaries but he too didn't last long as he was run out for 25
after a mix-up with islam the score now read 66 for two the skipper monument joined islam and
they shared in a 53-run third wicket partnership as the home side reached three figures and were
searching for more but in came the spinners and the vincentian jamel warakan proved to be a sting
in the bangladeshi batting order as he removed hak for 26 islam for 59 and mushfiqur rahim
took the home side over the 200 mark and reached 242 for six when stumps were drawn warakun says
patience was key in order to take wickets my fridge is very good for batting um when the
ball is a bit harder it's a big gym got some turn but as the ball got older you could see how good
awake it was and had to be disciplined in order to get wickets and build pressure i want to say
i have a lot of system to do um i got some balls to turn but i wasn't turning consistently that you
could say that i was assisting you all the time so they just had to be disciplined avoidable in right
areas day two bowls off at 10 30 p.m jamaica time simon preston reporting for tvj sports
now westin is a test captain jason holder says current players are hesitant to approach
legendary former players because of the constant criticism directed at them
holder who opted out of the current tour of bangladesh was speaking on the mason guest's
show in barbados on tuesday evening more in this report sir andy roberts last month
was caving in regards to holder suggesting that he was lost as a captain and would give
him a's for interviews however hola who says he's appreciative of criticisms was less than
impressed with the approach of roberts and other former players very disappointed with people like
with people that under robertson i respect them what they've contributed to the game but i mean
as as former former players who've done so well and i don't know i don't know i i'm
sure that they all have positive contributions to me to western's cricket but why why go on
these platforms these these platforms and and constantly criticize and degrade the product of
westeros cricket you know i feel as though a lot of the time when you have the the former legends
um comment on websites cricket 99 is negative howler has accepted that the team is below par
and admits the constant criticisms have made players timid to approach the legends but i think
they need to do a lot better in terms of trying to build the relationship with current players and i
think they've got a lot to contribute to western historically uh for whatever reason i don't know
where where is always a standoff between the past players and the current players but i know for
instance when i talk to players currently they don't want to see half of the legends because
they're so critical of them and then there's a case where when we see when we see them it's not
a case where a lot of them are approachable and you return the barbados has won only 11
of his 37 matches as test captain and believes the test series defeat in new zealand recently
has hurt him the most in his five-year reign i was really disappointed in new zealand i think
new zealand was a very very disappointing tour and i was really really frustrated and disappointed
after that performance because the last time we went to new zealand uh we were totally overplayed
and we pretty much took the same the same guys there and again we were totally played again and
i felt when you have a three-year break in between two series and in one place you know we should
have done a lot better in new zealand there's no excuse for the performance that we put in
in new zealand now we can sit back and critique it and try to pinpoint where's our reasons for
the performance the 29 year old is calling for more developmental work at the territorial level
so the team can start challenging top nations consistently again jerome foster tvj sports