MOMENTs

Fizz sets the tone

Coming in at number 11 after Nayeem Hasan was caught at slip off Jomel Warrican, Mustafizur Rahman was adjudged leg-before off his very first ball. Even Taijul Islam, the non-striker 11 runs away from a maiden Test half-century, was trudging back as Mustafizur, not wanting to let the remaining review go to waste, signalled for a review. By the time the third umpire was going through his checks, half the West Indies team had already crossed the ropes, but had to trudge back as replays showed the ball had struck him outside the line by the smallest of margins. Happily for the West Indies, the delay was a short one as Mustafizur was trapped in front two balls later, and this time the review could not save him.

But he had set the tone for the day. In all there were a total of 11 decisions reviewed by both teams. Bangladesh reviewed four decisions, two of which were upheld; West Indies challenged 7, had two upheld, four struck down and the other went with the umpire's call. 

One that slipped through the cracks

In the last ball of the fourth over of West Indies' first innings, Mehedi Hasan Miraz beat left-hander Kieran Powell's bat and wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim failed to collect the ball cleanly. All pretty normal, except replays showed that there was a feather edge Off Powell's bat and Mushfiqur had in fact dropped a catch. The keeper would probably want that to go unnoticed as that would bring his tally of misses to an eyebrow-raising three.

Shakib returns in style

Throughout the preceding series against Zimbabwe, Bangladesh had really missed their captain Shakib Al Hasan who sat out the series with a finger injury. It was still touch and go whether he would make the first Test against West Indies, but there was nothing tentative about his impact when he bowled his first ball in the 12th over. West Indies number three Shai Hope danced down the track -- only he knows why -- and played all around a vicious turner that pitched outside leg and crashed into the stumps. Three wickets away from becoming the first Bangladesh bowler to take 200 wickets, he then had Roston Chase dropped by Mushfiqur in the fourth ball of the same over. He didn't have to wait for wicket number 198, however, as he got his opposite number Kraigg Brathwaite caught at slip off the last ball.