Bangladesh vs. West Indies First Test Result: West Indies Win by 8 Wickets

Updated November 2, 2026: West Indies beat Bangladesh by eight wickets in the first men's Test at Shere Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur. Cricket West Indies' completed-results listing gives the final innings scores as Bangladesh 272 and 142, and West Indies 245 and 170/2, with a target of 170. That final result replaces the earlier day-three update, which described a live match position rather than the outcome.

Bangladesh vs. West Indies: first Test result at a glance

How the final result was set

Bangladesh made 272 in their first innings. West Indies replied with 245, leaving Bangladesh 27 runs ahead after the first innings. Bangladesh then scored 142 in their second innings. Combining those figures puts Bangladesh 169 runs ahead overall: their 27-run first-innings advantage plus 142 runs in the second innings. That left West Indies a target of 170 to win.

West Indies reached 170 for 2, as shown in the Cricket West Indies result listing. The final score therefore records a successful chase with two wickets lost, and the published result is a West Indies win by eight wickets. The scoreline does not by itself provide individual batting or bowling figures, so this update does not add player totals, partnership details, overs, or a description of decisive passages that are not shown in the official result summary.

The official result confirms the winner and team totals. It does not, on its own, establish a series winner: this was the first of two scheduled Tests. The second match was listed for November 5-9 in Sylhet, so the first-Test result should be read as one match result within the series and the WTC cycle.

What changed since the day-three update

The earlier version reported the position at stumps on day three: Bangladesh were 79 for 6 in their second innings after making 272, while West Indies had scored 245. At that checkpoint, Bangladesh led by 106 runs with four wickets remaining. That was a correct description of the match at that moment, but it was not a final score or a prediction of the winner.

The completed innings changed that picture. Bangladesh's second innings finished at 142, and West Indies then completed the chase at 170 for 2. The day-three figures remain useful only as a historical checkpoint; the final result and totals in the summary above supersede the live status. Cricket West Indies now labels the first Test complete and lists West Indies as the winner.

Venue, scheduled days, and start time

The match was played at Shere Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka. The ICC's schedule announcement placed the first Test in a five-day window from October 28 through November 1, 2026. Those dates were the scheduled playing days, not a claim that a Test had to use every day. The official result listing dates the first Test to October 28.

Cricket West Indies' pre-series tour schedule listed the first Test for 12:00 a.m. AST on October 28. Here, AST means Atlantic Standard Time at UTC-04:00, so the scheduled time converts to 04:00 UTC on October 28. Dhaka was on Bangladesh Standard Time, UTC+06:00, making the corresponding scheduled time 10:00 a.m. in Mirpur on the same date. These are conversions of the announced schedule time; they are not a claim about the exact time of the toss, first delivery, or final ball.

World Test Championship and second-Test context

The ICC identifies the home series against West Indies as part of the 2025-27 World Test Championship. The first Test in Mirpur was followed on the published schedule by a second Test in Sylhet from November 5 to 9. Cricket Australia's series page also labels the two-match competition as the Bangladesh v West Indies Tests 2026 men's series and lists the second Test as upcoming. This article covers the completed Mirpur match; it does not infer the outcome of the second Test or calculate a new WTC table position from the first-Test score alone.

A Test result and a championship-table update are separate pieces of information. The final score establishes that West Indies won this match by eight wickets. Any effect on standings depends on the official WTC table and applicable competition rules, so a precise points total or revised rank should be checked against the ICC's current standings rather than inferred from the team scoreline.

Official score and match-centre links

The primary source for the completed result is the Cricket West Indies results page for the Bangladesh tour, which lists the venue, both innings for each side, the target, and the eight-wicket result. Cricket West Indies also provides an official Match Centre for the fixture. The Cricket Australia match centre, fixture CA:41010 offers scorecard and commentary sections. The ICC schedule announcement confirms the WTC context and scheduled five-day window, while the Cricket West Indies tour announcement records the published midnight AST start.

Update note: Checked against official Cricket West Indies, ICC, and Cricket Australia pages on November 2, 2026. The final score and result above follow Cricket West Indies' completed-results listing. The previous live day-three status has been replaced; no unsupported individual statistics or series outcome have been added.