In front of whom Babar Azam failed, who made ‘Rail’ of entire Pakistan, after 90 days he spoiled the game of West Indies

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|03-12-2024

The ongoing second Test between West Indies and Bangladesh in Kingston has taken an exciting turn. This test match has been exciting because a 22 year old player has added spice to it. After the Bangladesh team was restricted to just 164 runs in the first innings, it unleashed such fire with the ball during the first innings of the West Indies that it became difficult for them to cross the 150-run mark. West Indies scored only 146 runs in the first innings and thus Bangladesh got a lead of 18 runs. The name of this Bangladeshi player who spoiled the game of West Indies in the first innings is Nahid Rana.

Even stronger performance than Pakistan against West Indies

What Nahid Rana, who made his Test debut in March this year, did against West Indies is even better than his performance against Pakistan in August 2024. Nahid Rana truly came into limelight for the first time when he showed his talent in the 2 tests played against Pakistan. Babar Azam was failing in front of him. He had ruined the Pakistan team. Babar was dismissed twice by Nahid Rana in 4 innings of 2 Tests. Apart from them, took 4 more wickets. He took 6 wickets in both the tests against Pakistan played in Rawalpindi.

5 wickets fell against West Indies after 90 days

Now know how Nahid Rana gave a more lethal performance than Pakistan against West Indies. In fact, till now his best performance in the Test was taking 4 wickets for 44 runs, which he took in the Rawalpindi Test against Pakistan. But, 90 days after the end of Pakistan's tour on 3 September 2024, Nahid Rana has taken 5 wickets for 61 runs against West Indies. After this amazing performance in the first innings of Kingston Test, he has left behind Pakistan's own record. Along with this, for the first time in his Test career, he also achieved the feat of taking 5 wickets.

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