Team India is ahead by 80 runs on the second day of the ongoing India-Bangladesh second Test in Mirpur. At stumps on Friday, Bangladesh is 7 for no loss in their second innings. Najmul Hasan Shanto 5 and Zakir Hussain returned unbeaten on a personal score of 2 runs.
Earlier, Team India scored 314 runs and took a lead of 87 runs in the first innings. Rishabh Pant scored the maximum 93 runs from his side. While Shreyas Iyer played an inning of 87 runs. Both added 159 runs for the 5th wicket. Earlier, the team had lost 4 wickets for 94 runs.
Virat Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara added 24-24 runs. While Shubman Gill scored 20 and captain KL Rahul got out after scoring 10 runs. Mo. Siraj got out as the last wicket after scoring 7 runs. While Jaydev Unadkat returned unbeaten after scoring 14 runs.
This is how India’s wickets fell
- First: Islam’s ball hit the pads of KL Rahul. First, the umpire gave not out. In such a situation, the Bangladeshi team took the review.
- Second: Gill wanted to play a sweep shot on Taijul’s straight ball, but missed it and hit the pad.
- Third: Pujara was trying to defend the straight ball, but Mominul Haque took a brilliant catch at short leg.
- Fourth: The length ball took the outside edge of Kohli’s bat and went into the wicketkeeper’s gloves.
- Fifth: Pant was caught by Nurul Ahmed behind the wicket on the ball of Mehdi Hasan Miraj.
- Sixth: Akshar wanted to play big shots. But caught by Shanto at the mid-wicket boundary.
- Seventh: Shakib Al Hasan made Shreyas Iyer LBW.
- Eighth: After Iyer, Ashwin also got LBW on Shakib’s ball.
- Ninth: Umesh Yadav was caught by Taijul Islam at the hands of Liton Das.
- Tenth: Siraj got out as the last wicket. He was caught by Shakib at the hands of Nurul Ahmed.
Fifty of Pant-Iyer, a partnership of 159
Rishabh Pant scored his 11th Test half-century. He missed the sixth century. At the same time, Shreyas Iyer scored his 5th half-century. He missed the second century. There was a partnership of 159 runs for the 5th wicket between the two.
First session: Taijul remained in the name of Islam
The first session of the day was in the name of the host team’s bowler Taijul Islam. Taijul made the top-3 batsmen of the Indian team walk.
He took the wickets of captain KL Rahul (10), Shubman Gill (20), and Cheteshwar Pujara (24). Team India’s score at lunch was 86/3.
Second session: 140 runs scored, one wicket fell
The second session was entirely in the name of the batsmen. In this Indian batsmen scored 140 runs. While the Bangladeshi bowlers, who took three wickets in the first session, were seen longing for wickets.
Taskin Ahmed got only one success. After the tea break, Team India was 226 for four wickets. Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer sizzled in this session.
Third session: 95 runs scored, 6 wickets fell
Bangladeshi bowlers were in this session. However, 95 runs were also scored. The session started with Team India’s score of 226/4. By evening, the Indian team was all out for 314 runs.
Then in the second innings, Bangladesh added 7 runs without losing a wicket. He lost the last 6 wickets in this session to score 88 runs. These include Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer, who have scored half-centuries.
Pujara completes 7000 test runs
In the first session, experienced Test batsman Cheteshwar Pujara (24) completed 7 thousand runs in the Test. He has scored 7,008 runs. Pujara has achieved this feat in 167 innings.
Pujara has associated his name with legends like Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sunil Gavaskar, VVS Laxman, Virender Sehwag, Virat Kohli, and Sourav Ganguly.