No joy for Tigers in afternoon session

There was nothing to rejoice for Bangladesh in the second session as a resolute stand between Jermaine Blackwood and Kyle Mayers swayed the momentum of the game back towards the hosts on the second day of their second and series-deciding Test in Saint Lucia on Sunday. 

Frustrating the Bangladesh bowlers, West Indies went through the afternoon session unscathed as they reached 248 for four, leading Bangladesh's first innings score by 14 runs. 

A total of 111 runs were added by the duo of Blackwood and Mayers in the session that saw 30 overs bowled. In fact,  Both Mayers and Blackwood strung together the second century stand for the hosts in the game with their fifth-wicket partnership amounting to 116 off 200 deliveries and still going strong. 

Buoyed by the three quick wickets scalped late in the morning session, Bangladesh were hoping to snatch control of the game with a few more wickets in the following session. However, Mayers and Blackwood had other ideas, with the former bringing up his third Test fifty off 75 deliveries.

Mayers played the role of the aggressor too, getting to his fifty and taking the Windies past the first innings score of Bangladesh with boundaries. He struck a total of eight boundaries and a long six over mid-off off a Mehedi Hasan Miraz delivery. 

Mayers was aptly supported by Blackwood, who remains unbeaten on 40 and on course for his 17th Test fifty.

The closest that the Tigers came to scalping a wicket was probably when a Shoriful Islam delivery induced a thick edge off the bat of left-hander Mayers and went through slip region for a boundary.