All the speculation surrounding Tamim Iqbal's possible return to the side for the second Test against West Indies has ended after the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced a 13-member squad yesterday without Tamim.

Tamim Iqbal, who was recuperating from an injury and had to sit out the first Windies Test has not been included in the 13-member squad announced by the Bangladesh Cricket Board today.

Two inherently flawed teams each putting in wildly uneven performances over two and a half days, and a pitch that tested participants to the limit all combined to produce an engrossing Test that ended with a 64-run win for Bangladesh at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram yesterday.

Bangladesh have beaten West Indies for the first time ever on home soil to go 1-0 up in the Test series after winning the first Test at Chattogram's Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium by 64 runs.

If the first day was action-packed, yesterday's second was a blockbuster at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram.

There was a lot of speculation about the nature of the wicket at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium (ZACS) leading up to the first Test between Bangladesh and West Indies.

A century, a pace-induced collapse and a lower-order counterattack -- the first day of the first Test between Bangladesh and West Indies had all the ingredients for a great day of cricket in Chattogram yesterday.

Bangladesh's home Test season will enter the business end tomorrow when the hosts take on West Indies in the first Test at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram.

The two-day practice match between BCB XI and West Indies predictably ended in a draw at the MA Aziz Stadium in Chattogram. BCB XI responded well to West Indies' first innings score of 303 by reaching 232 for five today. Talking to reporters after the match, middle-order batsman Mohammad Mithun said that batting might have been a bit too comfortable due to the nature of the wicket.

Ending all speculation and controversies about his finger injury, Bangladesh Test captain Shakib Al Hasan is all set to return to action after selectors included him in the 13-member Test squad for the first Test against the West Indies.

Bangladesh Test and T20I captain Shakib Al Hasan failed to keep his cool and engaged in a verbal altercation with a fan in the lobby of the team's Florida hotel after the T20I series win against West Indies on Sunday.

Bangladesh's away series have never been as remarkable as it was in the just-concluded West Indies tour that ended with a 2-1 T20I series triumph, thanks to a 19-run (D/L method) victory in the third and final game in Lauderhill, Florida yesterday.

Bangladesh pulled off a surprise series victory over West Indies by winning the third and final T20I by 19 runs through the Duckworth-Lewis method in Lauderhill, Florida yesterday.

Bangladesh showed great fighting spirit to clinch the ODI and T20 series after a disastrous start to the tour of West Indies where they lost the Test series 2-0.world champions,

Once again Bangladesh rode on their most experienced and reliable duo of Tamim Iqbal and Shakib Al Hasan to level the three-match T20I series by beating the world champions West Indies by 12 runs in the second T20I in Fort Lauderhill yesterday.

Powered by half-centuries from Tamim Iqbal and Shakib Al Hasan which was backed up by some excellent bowling, Bangladesh win the second T20I against the West Indies by 12 runs to tie the series at one apiece ahead of the series-decider at Lauderhill tomorrow.

After the disappointment in the two-match Test series under captain Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladesh bounced back with Mashrafe Bin Mortaza in charge to clinch their first ODI series away from home since 2009.

Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal has been in a fantastic vein of form in ODIs throughout 2018, having played many memorable knocks and was able to hone his abilities, often performing the role of anchor, to revel against West Indies, hitting two hundreds and a fifty in three matches as Bangladesh won their first away series in nine years.

There were high expectations for fast bowler Rubel Hossain since making his debut for Bangladesh in 2009. The cricketer from Bagerhat has gone through many ups and downs in his career and is now the side's second-most experienced pacer after Mashrafe Bin Mortaza.

Following the humiliating Test series defeat against West Indies, Bangladesh needed a boost of confidence ahead of the series-ending three-match T20I series. And it duly came in the form of a 2-1 series win in the ODIs, the format which the Tigers are most comfortable in.