BSS, Dhaka :
Bangladesh middle-order batter Jaker Ali Anik on Wednesday shared a heartfelt Facebook post, regretting of not being able to show his achievement to his father after contributing to the side’s historic victory against West Indies at Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica.
Jaker played a brilliant 91 runs knock to help Bangladesh set up an improbable 286 runs target for West Indies, which later were bowled out for 185, to hand Bangladesh a 101-run defeat.
The victory was Bangladesh’s first on Caribbean Island since 2009. Having won this game, Bangladesh also registered their third overseas victory, highest for them in their history in a calendar year.
Fifteen years ago, when Bangladesh won their first Test in the West Indies, Jaker was just 11 years old. After a long gap, he is now a part of that team. But it made him nostalgic about not having his father by his side on such a memorable day.
“I was 11 years old then. I didn’t miss a single match of that series in 2009. I used to stay up all night watching Bangladesh’s game. One day, my father woke up early in the morning and saw me watching the game. He stared at me, but didn’t scold,” Jaker wrote on his social media handle.
“15 years later, I am playing for Bangladesh in the same series. If my father were alive, he might have stayed up all night watching the game.”
With a love emoji, he then wrote: ‘Anyway this is for you Abba.’Having hit the career-best 91-run knock, Jaker became the first Bangladeshi batter to hit three half-centuries in his first three Tests’.
