Watch cricket video highlights of Bangladesh tour of India 2024. Second test between India and Bangladesh. Venue of the match will be Kanpur.
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Following two soggy, non-cricket days at Green Park, Kanpur came alive on a bright Monday as a swift India smashed several Test records. After smashing 23 off 11 balls in red-ball cricket, Rohit Sharma extended the white-ball cricket blueprint that has brought him tremendous success in the last several years to red-ball cricket. The rest of the Indian lineup then followed suit. After Bangladesh was bowled out for 233, they used that strategy to achieve the quickest team 50, 100, 150, 200, and 250 in men’s Test matches.
They also declared their first innings on 285 for 9 in just 34.4 overs. By stumps, Bangladesh finished the day with 26 for 2 in the second innings, trailing India by an additional 26 runs. R Ashwin managed to snare Zakir Hasan lbw and remove nightwatcher Hasan Mahmud. Meanwhile, Shadman Islam survived a dropped chance on 3. In the latter hours of the last day of the Test, Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul struck quickfire fifty for India, scoring at 141.17 and 158.13, respectively, to offer Indian spinners another opportunity to take aim at Bangladesh’s hitters.
On a surface that displayed ample spin, Mehidy Hasan Miraz and Shakib Al Hasan both claimed four wickets. In the first session, the pitch showed signs of improved carry, with the sun shining after several days of cloudy and rainy weather. However, due to the natural characteristics of the black soil, certain deliveries were a little low. All of that didn’t matter to Jaiswal, who opened the Indian reply by hitting Hasan Mahmud, who had scored five runs in Chennai, for a hat-trick of fours. On the other end, Rohit struck two sixes off the first two balls he faced.
He first leaped down the track to drop a ball over long-on to fast bowler Khaled Ahmed, and then he pulled one into the deep-square leg stands. In only three overs, the duo added two more fours and two sixes to take India to fifty. Bangladesh came in Mehidy in an attempt to slow down India, and while he was met with a four clubbed past midwicket, he almost struck fourth ball when Rohit was declared leg before wicket. Despite the ball striking him outside of his line of sight, Rohit reassessed and managed to survive.
Mehidy, however, had the final laugh on the following ball when he produced a low-flying delivery that sharply spun back in past Rohit’s defense. Jaiswal went on the attack against spin, unfazed by this. In overs six to twelve, India was able to score at least one four. Jaiswal scored a fifty off of 31 balls throughout this method, and India reached 100 in just 10.1 overs. The highlight was a huge he smoked over long-on off Mehidy, who also managed to get the ball to dip in on a fullish length.
He utilized his reach brilliantly to push the spinners off their lengths. But when Mahmud’s length ball lingered a little low to smash into Jaiswal’s stumps and remove him for 72, the surface’s low bounce came into play. Both Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant attacked from the outset, with the former hitting a massive boundary stroke after dancing down the ground. However, they were dismissed by Shakib after tea, leaving India in an ultra-attack mode. Their attacking style had forced Bangladesh to retreat, and Rahul and Kohli took advantage of this to rotate strike and bat freely.
Kohli was not afraid to use his feet, and he switched to his ODI mode after a mix-up with Pant that should have sent Kohli back, but Khaled mishandled the delivery at the striker’s end and missed despite getting to the stumps, leaving Kohli stranded out of the crease and having given up. He rubbed salt into Khaled and Bangladesh’s wounds by hitting him for back-to-back fours, the second off which was a loft over extra cover. He also used his feet against spin, thumping Taijul Islam straight over long-off.
In a bid to slog Shakib over midwicket, though, he was bowled after one skidded through. Rahul, however, used the sweep and reverse sweep aplenty, and never for once stalled. He looked at ease against the lowish pace on the surface and managed to encash on any width. He put on a masterclass of playing against spin, and scored his fastest Test fifty, off 33 balls. But India went from 269 for 5 to 284 for 9 just before the declaration. In the first five overs of Bangladesh’s first innings, Akash Deep and Jasprit Bumrah bowled four maidens to start the day.
Mushfiqur Rahim’s inside edge provided the lone run during that session, as both bowlers struck the area at decent length with differing degrees of lift-off. After that, Bumrah got an in-ducker to bounce farther and take Mushfiqur’s inside edge for four, but he shouldered arms to knock him over for the next ball. According to the broadcast, the boundary ball had landed on a respectable length outside off and had veered 2 cm toward the batsman; the wicket ball, on the other hand, had veered roughly 6 cm from the same landing position, which had caused Mushfiqur’s error.
Rohit was unafraid to set attacking fields, and the sight of three slips and two gullies was a familiar one for a better part of the first session. That allowed enough gaps for the Bangladesh batters to hit fours, as Litton Das did three times in an over off Bumrah. But India’s disciplined bowling created enough pressure, and Litton fell in a bid to break the shackles, aided by a brilliant piece of fielding. He charged at a length ball from Mohammed Siraj, and slapped it aerially towards wide mid-off, where Rohit timed his jump perfectly to pluck a one-hander.
Shakib’s stay in the middle then lasted only 17 balls, his attempt to use his feet against Ashwin proving to be his undoing. He could have got away with it, if not for Siraj backtracking from mid-off and holding on to a one-handed catch while falling backwards. The only batter from Bangladesh to display resilience was Mominul Haque, who not only scored his second century away from home but also his thirteenth Test century. He well countered spin with the sweep, preventing Ravindra Jadeja from settling.
Additionally, he made good use of his feet, lofting him straight over to reach the 90s. Mominul got a couple of lives when Pant failed to hold on to an under-edge feather on 93, and then on 95 when Kohli grassed him after diving to his left from wide first slip. After lunch, Mehidy hit Bumrah for three fours in seven balls, but the latter extracted revenge by getting him to edge a back-of-a-length ball that angled in and seamed away. Jadeja then caught and bowled Khaled to pick up his 300th Test wicket as Bangladesh lost their last seven wickets for 121 runs.
