IND vs BAN 2nd Test: Pant and Shreyas Iyer missed out on a century, Indian team could only take a lead of 87 runs

The second Test match between India and Bangladesh is being played in Dhaka. Today, the Indian team could only manage 314 runs in reply to Bangladesh’s 227 runs. At one point it seemed that the Indian team would take a big lead against Bangladesh. But this could not happen. Despite staying on the field, Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant could not complete their century. After the dismissal of both, India’s hope of a big lead also ended. Started playing ahead of 19 runs in the Indian team today. Today the Indian team added only 295 runs in 78.3 overs and the entire team was also dismissed. After the start of the day’s play, captain KL Rahul was dismissed after scoring just 10 runs. At that time the team’s score was 27 runs. Shubman Gill was also dismissed after scoring 20 runs when the team’s score was 38 runs.

 

Even Virat Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara could not do anything special in the middle overs. 24-24 runs came off the bat of both the batsmen. There was a good partnership between wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer. But both the batsmen did not complete their century. Rishabh Pant became the victim of Mehandi Hasan Miraj after scoring 93 runs in 105 balls. He had hit 7 fours and 5 sixes in his innings. Shreyas Iyer also faced 105 balls and scored 87 runs. 10 fours and 2 sixes came out of Shreyas Iyer’s bat. After the dismissal of both these batsmen, there was not much performance from the bottom batsmen. Akshar Patel scored four, Ravichandran Ashwin 12, Jaydev Unadkat 14, Umesh Yadav 14 and Mohammad Siraj scored 7 runs. Jaydev Unadkat remained unbeaten after scoring 14 runs.

 

For India, captain Shakib Al Hasan scored four runs in 19.3 overs scoring 3 runs. Taijul Islam also gave 74 runs in 25 overs bowling and achieved 4 successes. Taskin Ahmed and Mehndi Hasan Miraj got one success each. At the end of the second day’s play, the hosts were seven without loss. Najmul Hussain Shanto was playing five and Zakir Hussain scored two runs. Captain KL Rahul’s poor form continued unabated in the first session as Bangladesh’s Kaislam removed India’s opening three wickets for 86 runs. Rahul (10) and Shubman Gill (20) were lbw by Islam. Islam took three wickets for 24 runs in 13 overs in the first session. Cheteshwar Pujara scored 24 runs and was caught by Mominul Haque at forward short leg.