WINDIES VS BANGLADESH PRESSER

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Friday is the big day for the West Indies as they take on Bangladesh in the opening Test at North Sound.  And Windies skipper Kraigg Brathwaite is keen on winning the contest with pride at stake, since both teams cannot qualify for the World Test Championships final.

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00:00The West Indies have had the edge against Bangladesh most of the times with the latest

00:04wins being 2-0 on the Asian continent in 2021 and then in 2022 in the Caribbean, that score

00:11line also being the same.

00:13With the two teams set to meet on Friday in Antigua in the opening test match, Windies

00:17skipper Craig Bratwaite and his troops are ready.

00:19Well the guys are really looking forward to it, you know we haven't played test cricket

00:23for a little while so the guys are excited to get out there, it's a ground we love playing

00:30at, we enjoy playing here and the guys are ready and raring to go.

00:34In 2018, Bangladesh were bowled out for 43 in Antigua, so would that give the West Indies

00:40a psychological advantage?

00:42I mean everything gone is history, I mean we're playing against a talented Bangladesh

00:46team so what's gone is gone, we obviously all look forward to coming tomorrow and starting

00:52well in whatever we do.

00:54Even though the West Indies don't have a shot at the World Test Championships, Bratwaite

00:58sees the series as being very important, after all pride is also at stake.

01:03Yeah for sure, obviously we looked at the points as a team and we know we've got four

01:08games left in this cycle and we can still pretty much come high up on the table, we've

01:13just got to believe and as I said we're playing against a talented Bangladesh team so it won't

01:18be easy.

01:19Obviously what's gone is gone, the performances before against Bangladesh is gone, we've got

01:23to come ready and raring to go tomorrow morning.

01:26Bangladesh stand-in Captain Mehdi Hassan Miraj says even though names such as regular skipper

01:31Najmul Hussain Shanto and Mushfiqur Rahim are missing through injury, the Tigers are

01:36in good spirits.

01:37We are playing here last two test matches, like you know last two years ago we are coming

01:43here and just playing.

01:45I think it's much better and we just think about positive all the time, we don't think

01:51about negative, we just focus on our game.

01:56The second and final test match is in Jamaica and starts on November 30th.

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