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Nahid Rana bagged his maiden five-wicket haul while the batters stood up to the occasion on the third day as Bangladesh turned the table around to take control of the second Test against the West Indies at Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica, on Monday. 

Bangladesh were 193-5 and were leading by 211 runs in the second innings after the completion of the third day after the hosts were bundled out for 146 runs to hand the visitors an 18-run lead in the first innings. 

Nahid, ‘the Bangladesh Express,’ dubbed by commentator and former West Indian pacer Ian Bishop, took 5-61 runs. 

‘First I want to thank the almighty as I took my first five-wicket haul,’ Nahid said after the day’s play.

‘I didn’t try too many things. I just tried to bowl line to line without giving the batters any room and tried to bowl according to the batters.’ 

West Indies had no clue against Nahid’s pace and bounce as the hosts lost seven wickets in the first session of the third day for just 65 runs.

Captain Kraigg Brathwaite was bounced out by Nahid to get caught at gully, whereas Kavem Hodge nicked one behind before surviving off the same bowler earlier.

Taskin Ahmed then joined the party to clean bowl Alick Athanaze before Taijul Islam did the same to Justin Greaves. 

The lower order couldn’t hold up much longer as the Bangladeshi bowlers were in a mood.

Nahid’s fifth wicket was Alzarri Joseph, who was trapped lbw before the lunch break. He didn’t get any after the break, but Kemar Roach was injured by his bouncer and was unable to come to bowl before the 31st over. 

That helped Bangladesh’s cause, who were batting with an aggressive intent. Mahmudul Hasan Joy, though, suffered his seventh duck in 32 innings when he was outside edged off Jayden Seales in the fifth ball of the innings. 

But it was Shahadat Hossain who started to play shots after coming in at three in place of sick Mominul Haque.

That ultimately proved to be one shot too many, but his 26-ball 28 with four boundaries set things into motion. 

Captain Mehidy Hasan Miraz came at four and added 70 off just 74 balls with opener Shadman Islam to mount the pressure on the hosts.

They fell in quick succession as Shadman made 46 while Mehidy scored 42 off 39. Both hit seven fours each. 

Liton Das was undone by a slower delivery off Greaves after scoring 25 while Jaker Ali (29*) and Taijul (9*) remained unbeaten. 

Nahid later said that he thought Bangladesh were in a good position and anything above 250 was a good score.

‘The wicket is slightly different; there’ll be uneven bounce and turn. So we can do something good on the fourth day.’