ST JOHN’S, Antigua — Cricket West Indies (CWI) today congratulated the West Indies team on the record-breaking victory against Bangladesh in the first Test match at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram.

Led by an amazing double century by Kyle Mayers on debut, West Indies made 395-7 to win by three wickets. He made 210 not out and shared a superb partnership of 216 with fellow debutant Nkrumah Bonner, who made 86

The superb batting performance was the second-highest score in a successful run chase in West Indies Test history and the highest run chase in a Test match in Asia.

In a statement, CWI President Ricky Skerritt lauded the team and their performance, which brought great joy to West Indies supporters around the world.

Skerritt said: “Congratulations to captain Kraigg Brathwaite and our entire squad for an exceptional display of composure and desire. Led by debutant Kyle Mayers, it was a fighting team performance overall. The people of our region should walk a little taller today and the challenges of COVID-19 should temporarily be overshadowed by this astonishing West Indies Test victory. The hard work will continue.”

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Well said by the CWI, the team made them look a little better today with their decision to go on tour with an inexperience team.

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I wish we could now tell those shameless money grabbers who abandoned the team to go play t20 and t10 cricket to go to hell. I know this is wishful thinking though. As much as these "young" guys accomplished, as soon as those grabbers come back they will be brought back into the team to continue to embarrass us with their lack of intelligence and talent.

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Well-said Mr Prez, they made the region proud!!

Congrats on the big achievement...I enjoyed the whole weekend watching the three big games at the same time, it was exciting interesting and entertaining. Someone should encourage ICC to schedule a lot of test matches like these. It make it seems more like real test cricket contest going on, Instead of single test matches over a period of time which makes it boring.