West Indies routed Bangladesh by nine wickets on Friday after dismissing the home side for 58, its lowest score in a World Cup.Bangladesh was blown out inside 19 overs on a decent pitch to finish with the fourth lowest total in World Cup history.
West Indies, led by Chris Gayle with 37 not out, took less than 13 overs to reach the winning target.
“I was expecting a bigger occasion than this,” Gayle said.
The scheduled day-night match didn’t even reach night, as the sell-out crowd of 25,000 in Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium gradually fell into silence then began angrily booing or leaving early to avoid watching the end of an embarrassing defeat for Bangladesh. It’s previous low was 108 against host South Africa in 2003.
“We have a lot of things to work on,” Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan said.
West Indies spinner Suliemann Benn rebounded from conceding nine in his first over to take 4-18, and fast bowlers Kemar Roach and Darren Sammy snared three wickets each. The trio, West Indies’ only used bowlers, wrapped up Bangladesh in little more than an hour and a half.
Zunaed Siddique top-scored with 25, almost half of his side’s total. Bangladesh fielded the same side, which beat Ireland by 27 runs in its last game a week ago, but the batsman virtually gave away their wickets in the face of good bowling.
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