1st Test
Day-1 Afternoon Session Highlights:
Frequent strikes by the Bangladesh bowlers has maintained the pressure on team India
At The Tea of Day-1:
India scored 176/6 (1st Innings) vs Bangladesh.
Hasan Mahmud spearheaded Bangladesh’s impressive bowling effort in favorable conditions, regularly striking to prevent India’s batting from gaining momentum in the first two sessions of the opening Test in Chennai.
Yashasvi Jaiswal (56) formed valuable partnerships with Rishabh Pant and KL Rahul, but Bangladesh’s bowlers kept up the pressure, reducing India to 176/6 by Tea on Day 1.
Despite a slow over rate, Bangladesh conceded just 88 runs in each session, maintaining control.
India faced an early post-Lunch setback when Mahmud claimed his fourth wicket, dismissing Pant for 39.
Pant, after hitting a four through a cut shot, misjudged another attempt, resulting in an under edge and ending a 62-run stand for the fourth wicket.
Jaiswal, who had been solid, brought up his fifty with a boundary off Mahmud but continued to be tested outside off stump.
Rahul found his touch with an elegant on-drive for four off Nahid Rana, but it was a cautious partnership, aided by extras.
Taskin Ahmed, generating bounce and movement, narrowly missed Jaiswal’s edge, but the opener capitalized on loose deliveries, driving through the covers for boundaries.
He reached his eighth Test fifty, while Rahul played a watchful, steady role at the other end.
Their partnership, however, fell two runs short of fifty, as Jaiswal edged a back-of-length delivery from Rana to first slip.
Rahul soon followed, out to a sharp catch at short leg off Mehidy Hasan Miraz.
Ashwin and Jadeja added crucial runs, helping India past 150.
Mahmud continued to threaten, finding the outside edge of Ashwin’s bat in the final over before Tea, though the ball went through a vacant third slip for four.
Ashwin and Jadeja extended their partnership to 32 before the interval.
Earlier in the day, after Bangladesh opted to bowl, Taskin repeatedly beat Jaiswal’s outside edge and troubled Rohit Sharma with deliveries that nipped back.
Rohit narrowly survived a review after being struck on the pad by Mahmud, saved by the umpire’s call.
With the pitch aiding the seamers, Rohit and Jaiswal were under constant pressure but managed a few boundaries to relieve the tension.
The stand was broken when Mahmud got Rohit to edge to second slip.
India quickly slumped to 34/3 as Shubman Gill fell for a duck, caught down the leg side, and Virat Kohli edged to the wicketkeeper, with Mahmud claiming all three wickets.
Nahid Rana, introduced as first-change, added more challenge with his pace and bounce.
Pant, back in the Test side after two years, broke the shackles with a boundary over backward point.
Mahmud’s long, probing spell was tough on the batters, but Jaiswal found a rare loose ball to reach India’s fifty.
Rana’s pace proved to Pant’s liking, as he struck a couple of boundaries.
Jaiswal took on Mehidy’s first over, striking two boundaries, while Pant survived nervy moments against Taskin, including an edge that fell short of slip and raced to the boundary, bringing up their fifty partnership.
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