Pujara, Gill cement India strong position
From Shubman Gill and Cheteshwar Pujara set India in a directing situation in the main Test at Chattogram. The team ensured that India expanded the benefit of having acquired a 254-pursue first innings lead Kuldeep Yadav got a five-wicket pull.
With the ball, Bangladesh were smothered by the shortfall of Ebadot Hossain, who didn't take the field. As it turns out, he had not bowled in the primary innings too subsequent to taking the wicket of Shreyas Iyer almost immediately the subsequent day. He had anyway emerged to bat, yet without his accessibility, and with Shakib Al Hasan too not bowling, Bangladesh's assault wore a one-layered look, with Taijul Islam imparting the new ball to Khaled Ahmed.
The left-arm spinner verged on getting Shubman Gill, who was given out LBW, however adjusted on survey as the ball was going down the legside. On a pitch that was all the while holding low and offering help to the spinners, India's openers couldn't score at a speedy speed yet figured out how to crush it out at first. In the subsequent meeting, be that as it may, Gill assumed responsibility hitting four limits in the initial four overs after Lunch.
Bangladesh stopped on courageously with pacer Khaled Ahmed settling on the short ball ploy that discomforted Rahul with abnormal skip and ultimately made them pull down to fine leg. Against Gill, every one of the spinners had a survey conflicting with them. The third just fanned the fire with seasonal worker Yasir Ali losing so on the grounds that DRS was down.
These didn't hinder the opener, notwithstanding, as he utilized his feet and the compass shot to great impact to raise his fifth Test fifty and put on a fifty or more stand with Pujara too. Post the tea stretch, the two hitters changed up gears. Gill likewise hit three sixes as he hustled away to a ton, his very first in Test cricket, arriving with a flung limit to long on. He fell before long, attempting to trudge Mehidy Hasan and holing out to profound midwicket.
Nonetheless, India's attack didn't subside. Pujara presently played the job of attacker, unafraid to utilize his feet and space the spinners. He made his expectations clear in same over that Gill got out, lobbing Mehidy for limit to get his subsequent fifty off the match. He continued to keep raise the stakes and got his subsequent fifty off only 42 balls, finishing a century dry spell that had happened for north of three years. His first hundred in quite a while, and nineteenth generally speaking aided set an objective of 512, and simply added to Bangladesh's burdens, which were compounded by a less than impressive execution with the bat in the main innings.
They figured out how to add 17 races to their short-term score before they were bowled out, under an hour into the third day's play. Kuldeep Yadav sacked his third Test five-wicket pull when he had Ebadot Hossain gotten down the legside, finishing a 42-run represent the 10th wicket.
Mehidy kept on cultivating the strike however could add just six more with the last wicket before he was out confused off Axar Patel, providing India with a major lead of 254 runs. In the subsequent innings, they got off to a superior beginning with the openers staying sound until stumps.
Brief scores: India 404 (Cheteshwar Pujara 90, Shreyas Iyer 86, R Ashwin 58; Taijul Islam 4-133, Mehidy Hasan Miraz 4-113) and 258/2 decl (Shubman Gill 110, *) lead Bangladesh 150 (Mushfiqur Rahim 28; Kuldeep Yadav 5-40, Mohammad Siraj 3-20) and 42/0 by 471 runs