From Sir Don Bradman to Sir Viv Richards and Brian Lara to Sachin Tendulkar, the 28-year-old Windies batsman has not done the charisma.
Kusal Perera in Cape Town, Ben Stokes in Headingley and Rishabh Pant in Brisbane. Cricket lovers will have a good knowledge about these three innings. Within the last 2 years, these three players played memorable innings and won their teams out of difficult situations and won. Now a new name has been added to this list – Kyle Mayers. This unintentional face of the West Indies, like these three batsmen, not only brought a spectacular victory to their team, but also did something that was not done in the 144-year history of Test cricket.
The first Test match played at the Chattogram between Bangladesh and West Indies ended in a very exciting style and with a record-breaking historic innings. In the absence of the senior players of the team, the West Indies team playing a test match got a new hero, who broke the big records of cricket history.
Bangladesh gave target of 395, cheap 3 wickets
Hosting Bangladesh, playing to their full potential, declared their second innings for 223 on the fourth day of the match, setting a mammoth target of 395 runs to win in front of the West Indies. In response, the West Indies lost their 3 wickets for just 59 runs. From here, the pressure to save the team came on two players, who were making their debut in Test cricket. N Bonner and Kyle Myers made a good partnership, allowing no more wickets to fall for the team on the fourth day and led the team to 110 runs.
Two new players took the front with a peg
Now on Sunday, February 7, on the fifth and last day of the match, 285 runs were left for victory against the West Indies, while they had only 7 wickets and 90 overs. The circumstances and the logic of cricket were against the Windies, but once again the definition of cricket with uncertain sports proved to be correct.
Myers and Bonner kept the pegs in the first two sessions and did not let the wicket fall. During this, Myers made his century in debut. He became the seventh cricketer of the West Indies to do so. During this both of them completed 200 runs partnership and led the team to 266 runs. West Indies needed 132 runs in the last session.
However, shortly after the T-break, Bonner bowled out for 86 runs in the third session and the team’s score was 275 runs. Bangladesh had a chance to return to the match, but Myers ended the game with one of the most memorable innings in cricket history.
Myers’ miraculous innings, memorable victory for the Windies
Myers shared a 100-run partnership with Joshua da Silva, in which only 20 runs came from da Silva’s bat. Myers took an aggressive stand against the Bangladeshi bowlers and started sending the spinners from the spinners to the fast bowlers across the boundary.
In the last few overs, Myers not only brought his team closer to the target, but also converted his first century into a double century. Then shortly after Myers took a run, defying all the apprehensions and gave his team a memorable victory.
These miracles for the first time in the history of 144 years
The 28-year-old Myers remained unbeaten with 210 runs off 310 balls, scoring 20 fours and 7 sixes. With this innings, Myers did what was not done in the 144-year history of Test cricket. Myers became the first batsman in the world to score a double century in the fourth innings in his Test debut.
To date, 5 players have scored a double century in the debut test, while only 5 players have scored a double century in the fourth innings, but Myers is the first batsman to score a double century in the fourth innings of both these miracles. .
Apart from this, Myers has also become the only other batsman to score a double century in the second innings of a Test match and the team won. Before him, the legendary West Indian opener Gordon Greenridge did this miracle against England in 1984.
West Indies achieved a target of 395 runs, which became the fifth biggest successful run chase in the history of Test cricket.
