‘We suffered because of the fielding’ – Mashrafe Mortaza

Shai Hope scored a fine 146* to help the visitors to their first victory on tour, but Mortaza believed Bangladesh could have swung the result in their favour had his batsmen capitalised on their starts. Three players scored half-centuries for Bangladesh, but no one turned that into a century.

“We were on the right track. It's unusual, if you look at our recent performances,” said Mortaza. “We always have had centuries or two centuries or innings of 80-90 runs. The batsmen couldn't implement what they tried to do. We have to minimise the mistakes in the next game.”

Fielding was also an area of concern for Bangladesh. They dropped three catches in the matches, two of which were of Keemo Paul, who went on to stitch an unbroken 71-run stand with Hope to seal the chase with two balls remaining.

“We have definitely suffered because of the fielding,” said Mortaza. “We dropped Paul twice, otherwise Kemar Roach would come to bat and it would be difficult for them to rotate the strike.

“There's no compromise on fielding practice. But, at the end of the day, confidence matters in the field. Sometimes you drop one catch and then miss easy catches because of uneasiness."

It’s not the ideal way to head into the series decider on Friday in Sylhet, but Bangladesh were in a similar situation earlier this year in the Caribbean – they won the decider on that occasion, and Mortaza said winning consecutive series against the Windies would be special.

“Winning the series with back-to-back victories has its advantages,” he said. “In that case, the confidence level would have been better. West Indies will be confident now.

“But we have made comebacks from such situations before. We'll have to take the chance, since it's our home game. We'll have to try our best.”