Towhid Hridoy made 324 runs in the Sylhet Test, and West Indies still took the series 1-0
Bad light ended the second Test with Bangladesh 184 for 4 chasing 369, a draw that gives West Indies the two-match series after their eight-wicket win in Mirpur.
Nov 9, 2026
Towhid Hridoy spent close to 11 hours at the crease in Sylhet. His unbeaten 242 in the first innings and 82 in the second added up to 324 runs, the most any Bangladesh batter has scored in a Test, and they are the reason the match finished as a draw on Monday.
They could not save the series. West Indies had won the first Test in Mirpur by eight wickets, so the draw leaves them 1-0 winners. Jomel Warrican, who took seven wickets in Sylhet and 16 across the two Tests, was named player of the series. Hridoy was player of the match.
How the last day played out
West Indies resumed on 345 for 3 and wanted quick runs. Kavem Hodge, 140 not out overnight, added only two before he fell for 142, and Joshua Bishop hit 20 off 11 balls before Roston Chase declared at 398 for 6. That was 53 runs in ten overs, and it set Bangladesh 369 to win.
Nobody in Sylhet was thinking about a chase. Warrican struck twice before lunch: Tanzid Hasan hit him for four, then lofted the next ball straight to Joshua Da Silva at deep midwicket, and Najmul Hossain Shanto was given lbw for 14 on review after playing back to one that turned in. Bangladesh went to lunch on 49 for 2.
Hridoy and Mushfiqur Rahim then put on 135 for the third wicket. Mushfiqur went past 7,000 Test runs when he was on nine, the first Bangladesh batter to get there. Hridoy’s fifty made him the first Bangladeshi to score a double hundred and a fifty in the same Test. At tea they were 162 for 2.
Warrican broke the stand after the break, bowling Hridoy around his legs for 82 off 140 balls. It was his 100th Test wicket. Shamar Joseph bowled Mushfiqur for 49 soon afterwards, but Litton Das and Mehidy Hasan Miraz saw it out until bad light ended play at 184 for 4, after 59 overs.
The 242 that turned the Test
The first-innings double hundred was the bigger rescue. Amir Jangoo’s 133 had taken West Indies to 356, with Hasan Mahmud taking 6 for 90, and Bangladesh were 205 for 7 at lunch on the third day with Hridoy on exactly 100.
He added 117 for the eighth wicket with Taijul Islam and 85 for the ninth with Taskin Ahmed. By the time Taskin fell, Hridoy was 242 not out off 359 balls, with 22 fours and 11 sixes, and Bangladesh had a 30-run lead. Shadman Islam was absent hurt, so the innings closed on 386 with nine down.
His 324 for the match beat Mominul Haque’s 281 against Sri Lanka in 2018 as the Bangladesh record. He is also only the ninth batter to pass 300 runs in a Test against West Indies.
What comes next
This was Bangladesh’s first drawn home Test since May 2022, 18 Tests ago. Each side took four World Test Championship points from Sylhet. There is no break for Bangladesh, who go straight to South Africa for a two-Test series that starts in Johannesburg on 15 November.