KINGSTON, Jamaica - Determined resistance from Bangladesh's lower order again frustrated the West Indies despite a successful return for off-spinner Omari Banks on the opening day of the second and final Cable and Wireless Test at Sabina Park on Friday. Playing his first Test since recovering from a stress fracture of the lower back sustained last November, Banks claimed four for 80 - his best Test innings figures - but the tourists rallied from 97 for five after again choosing to bat first to reach stumps at 264 for nine. The fightback was not as productive as in the first innings of the First Test, when they eventually reached a record total of 416, yet on a pitch lacking in the venom that the home side's pacers would have hoped for, Brian Lara may just be wondering about his tenure at the helm having vowed to step down as captain if the West Indies fail to win this match. The tourists' confidence at having saved the match in St. Lucia with honour was evidenced by Habibul Bashar's decision to again take first strike, although neither he nor anyone else could have possibly expected that Pedro Collins would have inflicted a third first-ball dismissal on Hannan Sarkar. The left-arm seamer administered the treatment to the pint-sized opener in Dhaka 18 months ago and again last week at the start of the First Test at the Beausejour Cricket Ground, when he was palpably LBW offering no shot. This time around he was also trapped leg-before shouldering arms although the verdict this time by English umpire Jeremy Lloyds seemed harsh. Bashar, one of three centurions for Bangladesh in the opening Test, was twice caught off no-balls before Collins, the suffering bowler, eventually got his just reward as the visitors' captain, on 20, badly mistimed another attempted pull and Banks held a comfortable catch at gully. Fidel Edwards then had Javed Omar caught behind for 20 to reduce Bangladesh to 54 for three but Rajin Saleh and Mohammad Ashraful were fighting back into the afternoon session when Banks struck. Ashraful, keen to impose himself against the tall Anguillan slow bowler, tried to loft Banks over the top but Ramnaresh Sarwan claimed the mistimed effort at midwicket to send the teenager back into the pavilion for 16. Majural Islam Rana, included for this match at the expense of Faisal Hossain, failed to impress, edging an expansive drive off Tino Best to wicketkeeper Ridley Jacobs and leaving Saleh to carry the fight with the lower half of the order. The technically correct right-hander added 48 runs for the sixth wicket with Mushfiqur Rahman and the pair were well on their way to taking their team to the tea interval without any further loss when Mushfiqur missed an attempt to loft Banks over cover and television replays showed that Jacobs had removed the bails with the all-rounder just out of his ground. Boosted by that success, Banks added a third wicket shortly upon the resumption, Rajin completely mistiming an attempted straight drive to give a comfortable catch back to the bowler. His innings of 47, the highest of the innings so far, spanned 209 minutes, 157 deliveries and included six boundaries. Reduced to 152 for seven, there was still more than a little fight left in the Bangladeshi tail with Mohammad Rafique, another of the century-makers in St Lucia, stroking 30 in a 40-run eight-wicket partnership with captain Khaled Mashud before Banks lured him into a lofted drive and Collins held the catch head-high at mid-off. Mashud was in the mood for another valiant rearguard himself, getting support from Tapash Baisya in squeezing out another 46 runs from tiring bowlers only for the introduction of the second new ball to bring about his demise on 39 as he sliced a drive off Edwards unerringly to Banks at cover-point. But that was not the end of the toil or the frustration for the West Indies as Tapash (34 not out) and Tareq (4 not out), while never looking comfortable to the pace and hostility of Best and Edwards, have so far added another 26 runs, aided considerably by Chris Gayle's dropped catch at first slip when Tapash prodded at Best. On what appears a benign track, the West Indies batsmen should back themselves to overhaul whatever is the final Bangladeshi total by some distance. But they have already learned the hard way not to take the minnows of Test cricket for granted. SOURCE: WINDIESCRICKET.COM