By Tony Becca - On The Boundary 
THE West Indies victory over Bangladesh in the first Test was not surprising, and there is no reason why it should have been.
In spite of the West Indies poor record away from home in the past six years, victory over Bangladesh is no big thing - not with the home team going into the match with a record of 14 defeats and one ruined by rain in 15 matches, and not after losing seven of their previous eight matches by an innings.
To the West Indies credit, however, they won in style, and remembering that it takes just one delivery to remove the best batsman, that even average bowlers can produce a good delivery, it was good to see young batsmen like Ramnaresh Sarwan and Marlon Samuels picking up where they left off in India and dominating the bowling.
On top of that, and even though it was like taking candy from a baby and cannot or should not be welcomed as a sign that the West Indies are back to their winning ways, it was also good to see the Windies demonstrating their superiority and separating the men from the boys in such a manner that they handed Bangladesh their worse defeat ever after dismissing them for 139, scoring 536, and nailing them for 87 - their lowest score ever - to win by an innings and 310 runs.
Although the opposition was such that the victory was nothing to celebrate, the performance of fast bowler Jermaine Lawson was something to note - something that should make West Indians feel good as they look to the future.
After a good impression in India, the 20-year-old Lawson returned figures of six wickets for three runs, and regardless of the quality of the batsmen, or rather the lack of quality, that was a good performance by a young pacer.
It is one thing to take a lot of wickets against weak opposition. It is something else, however, regardless of the opposition, to take six wickets during a spell in a Test match without conceding a single run.
The first three, in four deliveries, were all leg before wicket; the last two, in three deliveries, were both bowled; and with the last one falling to a yorker, Bangladesh or no Bangladesh, it must have been good bowling.
Lawson, obviously, bowled fast and straight, he must have pitched the ball on a good length consistently, he must have paraded a high level of skill, and that augurs well for a West Indies team that in recent times has been let down by friendly, inconsistent and generally unskilled fast-medium bowlers.
