India regain control courtesy of Ashwin's hundred
A fantastic 100 from Ravichandran Ashwin drove India's fine rebound on the first day of the season of the primary Test against Bangladesh. Ashwin (102*) and Ravindra Jadeja (86*) were engaged with a record organization for the seventh wicket, assisting India with moving into a place of solidarity in the wake of being constrained on the backfoot in the initial two meetings. Notwithstanding Yashasvi Jaiswal's fifty, India were decreased to 144 for 6 at one phase, which was to a great extent because of Hasan Mahmud's sharp bowling. Yet, Ashwin and Jadeja drove a fine counterattack as they put on 195 in just 227 balls to take India to 339/6 at Stumps on the first day of the season.
India oversaw just 88 runs and lost three wickets in every one of the initial two meetings yet the direness showed by Ashwin and Jadeja, who scored 20 fours and 4 sixes between them, assisted the hosts with beating the competition, as they got 163 runs in the last meeting at a pace of more than five an over. Bangladesh were poor with their over-rate, overseeing just 23 and 25 overs in the initial two meetings, and could bowl 32 overs in the last meeting on Day 1, that too after the additional 30 minutes were utilized.
Bangladesh made early advances in the wake of choosing for bowl, capitalizing on the accommodating circumstances for the pacemen. Taskin Ahmed tried Jaiswal and Rohit Sharma in the initial meeting and the last option barely endure a lbw survey off Mahmud's bowling, with the umpire's call saving him. Yet, Rohit couldn't endure significantly longer, edging one to second slip as Mahmud struck the principal blow. Shubman Gill trailed not very far behind for an eight-ball duck, got down the leg side, and Virat Kohli got an external edge to the 'manager, with Mahmud incurring all the harm and diminishing India to 34 for 3.
Nahid Rana's speed introduced new difficulties yet Rishabh Gasp getting back to Test cricket after almost two years, got comfortable by tracking down limits. Gasp and Jaiswal set up a consistent 62-run organization, with the two players scoring customary limits and pivoting the strike well. Rana's speed was as Gasp would prefer while Jaiswal took on Mehidy Hasan Miraz for several limits. Gasp had two or three anxious minutes before the mid-day break. He hit a short ball from Taskin which landed shy of the defender prior to getting an external edge off a similar bowler yet the ball landed shy of first slip, where Shadman Islam responded late.
In any case, Mahmud kept on upsetting the Indian hitters, excusing Gasp for 39 soon after Lunch with another essential leap forward, finishing the promising stand. A vigilant stand among Jaiswal and KL Rahul resulted, with the previous arriving at his fifty, yet couldn't construct further. He got an external edge off a shy of length conveyance from Rana which finished a 48-run stand. Rahul likewise fell before long, got at short-leg off Mehidy, leaving India in additional difficulty.
Ashwin then emerged with a positive plan, managing in normal limits on one or the other side of Tea, with Jadeja supporting him well from the opposite end. Jadeja struck a six off Mahmud in the last meeting to get India moving and utilized the survey to switch a lbw choice off a similar bowler, with replays uncovering an inside edge. Ashwin then, at that point, got two fours off Mahmud to raise the 50 years stand, and Bangladesh likewise lost a survey going higher up for a lbw choice. Shakib Al Hasan came into the assault just in the 53rd over and he was welcomed by Jadeja with a four while Ashwin nailed a trudge clear for his initial six. Jadeja then, at that point, struck a six off the left-arm spinner in comparative design and followed it up with two limits.
Ashwin raised a 58-ball fifty and the 100-run stand was raised off just 114 conveyances. Ashwin gathered two additional fours, playing a slope shot and a look off Rana. The standard recurrence of limits, alongside the singles and twos, baffled the Bangladesh group. Jadeja and Ashwin outperformed Sachin Tendulkar's and Zaheer Khan's 133-run organization, in 2004, to enroll India's most elevated seventh wicket stand against Bangladesh. Jadeja then raised his fifty and set aside short balls from Mehidy for several limits.
A beautiful cover drive by Jadeja off Rana broadened the organization past 150 preceding Ashwin sent a Mehidy conveyance over the wall to control India past 300. Ashwin got into the 90s with a cut went for four off Rana before Jadeja clubbed Mehidy for a four and a six. On 95, Ashwin was lucky that the edge off Shakib's bowling went wide of slip for two or three runs. He proceeded to raise his 6th Test hundred - and his second in Chennai - before Jadeja entered the 80s with a four off Shakib in front of Stumps.