Smith bludgeoned his way to a typically blistering 103 not out in 70 balls as the West Indies Cricket Board XI posted 164 for five in just 24 overs in their second innings of the three-day match at the Queen's Park Cricket Ground.

Bangladesh had earlier scored 161 in their first innings after resuming on 124 for four, which was still 10 runs short of avoiding the follow-on target. The Board XI had declared their first innings at 320 for five. But the home team decided against enforcing it to have some batting practice on a rain-interrupted day and Smith took the opportunity with both hands.

The 21-year-old from Barbados clubbed four sixes and nine fours in an exhibition of high quality strokeplay after his side had lost both openers in the first over bowled by Tapash Baisya.

Opener Wavell Hinds perished trying to hoist Tapash over deep square leg but Enamul took a brilliant tumbling catch near the line in the second ball of the first over. Tapash also had had Devon Smith, who had changed ends, caught down the leg side by wicketkeeper Khaled Mashud in the same over.

But Smith's innings in the drawn match was the undoubted highlight of the final day's proceedings. He brought up his hundred in 67 balls. Only Baisya came out with relative credit for the Tigers claiming two for 18 from three overs bowled. All the others suffered at the hands of Smith with Alamgir Kabir going for 47 from his eight.

Tareq Aziz clean bowled Carlton Baugh (Jr.) but was hit for 37 in his six overs. Enamul Haque was also expensive giving away 35 in four overs for Dave Mohammed's wicket.

"We had some practice in bowling to some of those West Indian batsmen who will be playing in the first Test match. They batted pretty well but I thought we stuck to our task. But the glaring area again and the disappointment was losing three wickets for four runs in five overs before tea when we batted," said Bangladesh coach Dav Whatmore after the match.

Whatmore felt the key to countering the expected four-pronged pace attack of the West Indies was seeing out the initial burst from the likes of Tino Best and Fidel Edwards and he was planning to get that message through to his boys.

"We have to get used to the pace. We have to wait for the ball to get a little older and the opening fast men to tire after seven or eight overs maximum. We have to wither the storm. The batsmen have to do that. In our case what we will do is to have individual one-to-one interviews on Wednesday," said Whatmore.