West Indies will look to return on winning ways when they take on Bangladesh in the first T20I match at Basseterre in St. Kitts. In Test series, West Indies demolished Bangladesh by 2-0 but in the ODI series Bangladesh bounced back and beat the hosts by 2-1 and clinched their first ODI series win outside Asia since 2009 and now will be looking forward to doing the same in the three-match T20I series.
All the major stats and facts all you need to know as West Indies take on Bangladesh in the first T20I game at Basseterre in St. Kitts :
Head to Head in T20Is -
| Venue | Matches | Won by WI | Won by BAN | Tied | NR |
| West Indies | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Bangladesh | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Neutral | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Overall | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
1 - West Indies have won only one out of six T20Is they played this year. And their only win came against ICC World XI at Lords in this May.
4 - West Indies have won 4 out of 5 T20I matches they played at Basseterre in St. Kitts and the remaining one T20I match ended in a no result against Bangladesh in 2014.
11.62 - Shakib Al Hasan has taken 8 wickets at an average of 11.62 against West Indies in 4 T20I matches with the best bowling figures of 4/34.
62.66 - Marlon Samuels batting average against Bangladesh in T20Is. He has scored 188 runs at this average in 4 innings with 2 fifties.
94 - Sabbir Rahman needs 94 more runs to become the 5th Bangladeshi player to score 1000 runs in T20I cricket after Tamim Iqbal, Shakib Al Hasan, Mahmudullah and Mushfiqur Rahim.
1573 - Runs scored by Marlon Samuels in T20I format and needs 35 more runs to surpass Chris Gayle (1607) and become leading run-getter for West Indies in this format.
