Bangladeshi batsmen needed to bat fluently for consecutive four sessions to save this test match. Their top order, however, fell down drastically and Bangladesh ended up the fourth day in a choked position. They have already lost 3 wickets for scoring only ___ runs.
Tamim Iqbal missed out as he got edged by a sharp delivery from Ashwin. The ball then hit his pad, hopped up and went directly to Kohli. A decent partnership was building up by Soumya and Mominul, but Jadeja broke it by placing the ball on the footmark and getting the wicket of Soumya. Mominul also departed then and Bangladesh found themselves into an abyss.
Bangladesh came to bat in their second innings to climb an unsurmountable cusp of 459 runs. India had got the chance to enforce the follow-on on Bangladesh but Virat Kohli decided to bat for the second time. India batted only one session and scored runs over a rate of five to put a total of 159 runs. Shakib and Taskin took two wickets each.
Bangladesh’s early morning was a bizarre. Kumar struck on the very first over as the ball pitched fuller and swung inwards deceiving the bat and pad of Miraz. But Mushfiq was adamant. He showed extreme patience, absolute diligence and superb temperament to get his fifth test ton. He faced 262 balls to play this magnificent innings of 127 runs.
So, Bangladesh have a big task tomorrow. They have to survive three entire sessions to save this test match on a pitch which has shown it auspice to the spinners already.
