Watch cricket video highlights of Bangladesh tour of India 2024. First test between India and Bangladesh. Venue of the match will be Chennai.
Bangladesh was bowled out in just 47.1 overs after escaping the frying pan with four fast wickets to dismiss India early on the second morning. However, Bangladesh then found itself squarely in the path of the indomitable Indian bowling attack. Day two saw India opt to bat despite having a 227 lead and leading by 308 with seven second-inning wickets remaining at stumps. The circumstances for India’s bowling were even less favorable than they were on the first day, but the Bangladeshi batsmen saw no reprieve.
When things got easier for the pacers, Jasprit Bumrah, Akash Deep, and Mohammed Siraj combined for eight wickets, while Ravindra Jadeja shattered Bangladesh’s greatest partnership when things got easier. Bangladesh began the day on a bright note. Bangladesh’s first five-for in India was completed by Hasan Mahmud, Taskin Ahmed took three wickets with the second new ball far better than the first, and they allowed India to score only 37 runs throughout the course of the day. But then there was a swift reminder that their bowlers had already made too many mistakes on the first day.
India’s fast bowlers were spot on right away, reducing Bangladesh to 40 for 5 with testing spell after testing spell and a mistake every three balls. Bumrah often sent the ball away from the left-hand openers across the wicket, but he turned for the final delivery in the first over. Though it’s likely that the five balls before it had gone away, Shadman Islam abandoned him, this one seemed to come back in and struck the top of the off. Both Mominul Haque and the umpire misunderstood the leg-before-bow call that saved Zakir Hasan, but Deep was too strong for both of them.
Deep bowled poorly in his opening over, which was right around the wicket; but, in his second over, he got the ball to seam in from a nice length just outside off. When Mominul had his pad in position, the ball ricocheted into the wicket, thoroughly defeating Zakir. In either case, he would have been lbw. The hat-trick ball was pushed into the gully by Mushfiqur Rahim, but it missed. India returned to their two best bowlers after lunch, who had only bowled brief stints prior to the break. The most precise of the three was Siraj, who had earlier missed out on Zakir’s wicket.
As a wobble-seam ball sailed away from him, Najmul Hossain attempted to walk at him in an attempt to offset the movement, but he was only able to get it to second slip. Before Mushfiqur bowled a rare delivery that swung after pitching, Bumrah continued to challenge him. It isn’t intentional, but occasionally the ball will begin to swing after passing the hitter, especially if the seam is straight. This one began to move even before it passed Mushfiqur, who would have normally covered the angle. At the last second, it took the edge, swerved away from KL Rahul, and rapidly went to second slip.
Rahul’s hands were soft, indicating that he had made the catch, and his upper body rotated with the ball. As the pace started to slow down, Litton Das and Shakib Al Hasan combined for a brief stand of 51 thanks to some superb drives. Then the spin twins from India came on and, while they received little support from the pitch, gave away nothing. Litton played a more squarer slog-sweep than he would have liked, giving a catch to deep square leg in an attempt to dominate them. Regretfully, Shakib reverse-swept Ravindra Jadeja right into his boot, setting up Rishabh Pant for a lob.
India revived the danger of Siraj and Bumrah just before tea. Siraj grabbed the edge right away, but it didn’t carry. However, Bumrah defeated Mahmud with what turned out to be the final ball before tea. Bangladesh was still 65 points away from missing the continuation. For about 45 minutes, the final two wickets for Bangladesh were in play, including a boundary off Bumrah that obviously triggered something. Bumrah smacked Taskin Ahmed on the glove and head with short balls to soften him up, then cleaned him up with a crisp yorker.
Even though the towering Nahid Rana wasn’t too excited about going beyond Bumrah’s line, he still managed to deny him the five-for and hit him for two boundaries. After a while, he managed to get his second wicket by playing Siraj on as he was struggling at one. On the second day, India had almost an hour and a half to bat before stumps. India started the game well since they were so far up. Although Rohit Sharma flicked the first ball he saw for four, and Yashasvi Jaiswal got ten runs off the opening over, they quickly found the surface was still not flat enough to be playing around with the bowling.
With 16 wickets in a single day of play at Chepauk, it was the most ever. After that, Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli played well for the bowlers, but an unusual dismissal made it 17 wickets for the day when a right-hand batsman was leg before wicketed by a forward offspinner. Ultra Edge then recommended an inside edge, and Kohli was the one who did not evaluate it. India was leading by almost 300 stumps.
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