What a match! Top drawer stuff, but in the end, Bangladesh have come through to win their first Test against Windies at home. Bangladesh have won by 64 runs. That is quite a margin, and it is all thanks to their performance over the first two innings of this Test.

Bangladesh were great with the bat in the first innings, tidy with the ball in the second. Managed to hold their own in the second innings despite the pitch spitting and bouncing. They left Windies with too much to handle in the end. The Windies were well in the contest from time to time, but their inconsistency cost them, again.

They established too much of an advantage in that time for West Indies to be able to recover; 204 was always going to be tricky on this pitch, and so it proved. The new ball was particularly hard to bat against, and West Indies had little chance of recovering after slipping to 11 for 4. A bit of a counterattack from Shimron Hetmyer, and a sensible partnership later on between Sunil Ambris and Jomel Warrican, but Bangladesh still only needed two more good balls, and they duly got them just as tea approached.

Shakib Al Hasan: ‘I think Nayeem was brilliant in the first innings. Little contributions from Taijul and Nayeem with the bat was tremendous, obviously Mominul was brilliant. We won the small moments that was crucial to the win. Whatever I do, I do for the team, and I’m lucky to have some of these achievements [when asked about being the quickest to the 3000-200 double]. Hopefully a few more years, and many more successes.’

Mominul Haque is the Player of the Match. ‘We were fortunate to win the toss,’ he says. ‘It was easier to bat first, and we took advantage of that. It became progressively more difficult as the match went on.’

Kraigg Brathwaite: ‘A tough loss for us, I thought the Bangladesh team did very well. Our bowlers did a good job. I think the new ball was the key. We didn’t build partnerships, that was the key. And when we bowled in the first innings, it didn’t turn as much. It was a tough pitch to bat on. Main thing was we didn’t get partnerships early on. I thought Hetmyer and Dowrich played very well [in the first innings]. Unfortunate they didn’t go on for longer. [Gabriel] will be a huge loss [in the second Test].’