Naman Garg
India completely outplayed Bangladesh in all three aspects of cricket on day 2 of India vs Bangladesh test match. India posted 81/3 in 23 overs at Stumps and lead by 308 runs on Day 2 of the ongoing first Test match vs Bangladesh in Chennai.
Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant remained unbeaten for India while scoring 33 and 12 runs respectively in the second innings and will resume batting on Day 3. Meanwhile, Yashasvi Jaiswal fell to Nahid Rana on 10 and Rohit Sharma lost his wicket to Taskin Ahmed on 5 runs. Also, Virat Kohli was dismissed by Mehidy Hasan Miraz by scoring just 17 runs and he was judged lbw which he was not when the hawk eye shown that . Earlier, Jasprit Bumrah took a four-wicket haul as India restricted Bangladesh to 149 runs in 47.1 overs. Shakib Al Hasan and Litton Das calmed things down for Bangladesh briefly in a second session against a relentless Indian attack, but the hosts have pretty much blown the hosts out of the match by Tea. Litton fell trying to sweep a big shot off Ravindra Jadeja on 22 off 42 and the partnership between him and Shakib ended on 51 off 94. Shakib fell shortly thereafter trying to sweep Jadeja as well on 22 off 42. Mehidy Hasan Miraz then held fort with Hasan Mahmud for much of the session, until the latter was dismissed by Jasprit Bumrah off the last ball of the session. Bangladesh thus went into Tea on a score of 112/8, trailing India by 264 runs.
Earlier, India were all out for a score of 376. The second new ball was available first thing in the morning on Day 2 of the first Test at the Chepauk Stadium and Bangladesh took it. They would’ve been desperate for an early breakthrough and Taskin Ahmed got them exactly that, getting Ravindra Jadeja to edge behind to the wicketkeeper in the third over of the day. Jadeja could not add to his overnight score of 86 and thus missed out on his fifth Test century. The stand between him and Ravichandran Ashwin ended on 199. Ashwin eventually fell for 113 off 133. Jasprit Bumrah got the breakthrough for India in the very first over of the Bangladesh innings. Akash Deep then sent Zakir Hasan and Mominul Haque back off consecutive balls in the ninth over to leave Bangladesh reeling at 26/3 at Lunch. Now India will hope that this lead will prolong up to 450 to 500 runs so that Indian team rule out India defeat completely.
