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Guyanese grilling

RABEED IMAM from Kingston
It was a Guyanese party at Sabina Park on Sunday. Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shivnarine Chanderpaul bludgeoned the Bangladesh bowling without ever appearing ruthless and that should be a testament to their skills and should have taught the Tigers top order that batting straight is the way to go on this wicket.
Instead, Javed Omar and Rajin Saleh tried to push the ball to leg for no apparent reason and got caught at forward short leg while Pedro Collins got his bunny Hannan Sarker lbw to leave the visitors on 66-3 at stumps on Day Three and a mountain to climb just to make the Windies bat again.
Brian Lara had declared on 559 for four, a lead of 275, giving Bangladesh nervy 20 overs for survival. Habibul Bashar's men now need a history defying batting effort on the last two days if they are to save the match.
There wasn't one rash shot in their unbroken 262 run partnership between Sarwan and Chanderpaul that took away any hope the tourists had of restricting the Windies. Neither batsmen gave a chance throughout the day and when the declaration finally came with an hour to go till close, Sarwan was the proud owner of the highest individual innings by a Guyanese. His 261 not out surpassed Rohan Kanhai's 256 scored against India in Calcutta during the 1958-59 series. This was also the first career double for the 24-year-old West Indies vice-captain.
"To be up there with a great player like him (Kanhai), I don't think you can actually find the words to express the feeling. I'm very pleased and it's something that I'll treasure for the rest of my life," said Sarwan, who also scored his first Test hundred against the same team in Dhaka in 2002.
His only blemish throughout the 402-ball stay was a dropped chance on 23 and imagine what Hannan Sarker must have been feeling as Sarwan returned the compliment in devastating manner. His 32 boundaries exhibited a classical batting with all the shots in the book.
Chanderpaul on the other hand
began slowly but was timing the ball as sweetly as ever as the innings progressed. He reached his 10th Test hundred off 189 balls and paid tribute to his partner for aiding him to return to form after a slump.
"Sarwan really helped me out there because I have been struggling at the start of the series and prior to it. He actually helped me as he was doing it all by himself," said the modest 30-year-old.
Sarwan was being honest when asked to comment on the Bangladesh bowling.
"I thought they bowled pretty well. It's just the wicket was easy to bat on and you can't really fault them. They bowled to one side of the wicket and tried to contain us."
Habibul Bashar had no problems in reaching 28 by close but the skipper has his job cut out. The Tigers could have been in dire straits had Dwayne Smith had his hattrick of catches. But just before stumps, Manjarul Islam, promoted to number five, pushed to silly point and Smith in nis ecstasy tried to throw the ball without keeping it in his grasps for time required to compfete a legitimate catch. Bangladesh would be hoping for more such luck on in the next couple of days.
SCOREBOARD
Scoreboard at close of play on the third day of the second and final Test between Bangladesh and the West Indies at Sabina Park in Jamaica on Sunday:
BANGLADESH: First innings 284 (Baisya 48, Saleh 47, Mashud 39, Rafique 30; Banks 4-87, Collins 3-64)
WEST INDIES: First innings (over-night294-3)
GaylecMashudbTareq 14
Devon run out (Ashraful) 44
Sarwan not out 261
Lara c Mashud b Rafique 120
Best c Mashud b Baisya 4
Chanderpaulnotout 101
Extras:(b-4,lb-5,w-l,nb-5) 15
Total: (For 4 wkts deci in 151 overs) 559
Fall of wickets: 1-26, 2-109, 3-288, 4-297
Did not bat: Dwayne, Jacobs, Banks, Collins, Edwards
Bowler O M R W
Baisya 25 5 99 1
Tareq 19 2 76 1
Mushfiq 33 3 127 0
Rafique 38 2 124 1
Manjarul 28 2 100 0
Ashraful 1 10 0
Saleh 7 1 24 0
BANGLADESH: Second innings Omar c Dwayne b Best 5
Hannanlbwb Collins 10
Bashar not out 28
Saleh c Dwayne b Collins 0
Manjarulnotout 8
Extras: (b-4, lb-4, w-5, nb-2) 15
Total: (For 3 wkts in 20 overs) 66
Fallofwickets: 1-16,2-24,3-34 Bowler O M R W
Collins 8 1 18 2
Best 6 0 19 1
Banks 4 2 12 0
Gayle 2 0 9 0