Cheteshwar Pujara injected a contemporary lease of life into his unsure worldwide future with a dogged 90 whereas Shreyas Iyer loved a reprieve to stay unbeaten on 82 in India’s underwhelming opening day rating of 278/6 in opposition to Bangladesh within the first Test.
Stumps on Day 1⃣ of the primary #BANvIND Test!@ShreyasIyer15 stays unbeaten on 8⃣2⃣* as #GroupIndia attain 278/6 on the finish of day’s play 👌
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— BCCI (@BCCI) December 14, 2022
Pujara missed out on a Test hundred as he was bowled neck and crop by a magnificence from left-arm spinner Taijul Islam (3/84) however not earlier than seeing India out of hazard with a 149-run fifth-wicket stand with Iyer. Mehidy Hasan Miraz (2/71) dismissed Axar Patel off the final supply of the day to wrest the initiative again for the hosts who wish to limit India round a complete of 300 runs on a monitor that wasn’t dangerous for batting.
Credit must also be given to Rishabh Pant (46 off 45 balls) whose counter-attacking knock was of immense worth as he was the primary one to carry the opposition by the scruff of its neck after skipper KL Rahul (22), Shubman Gill (20) and Virat Kohli (1) have been dismissed cheaply inside the first 90 minutes of play.
Till Pant was on the crease, it appeared like he was batting on a special monitor. Honours have been shared on the opening day with Islam rising because the hero for Bangladesh and displaying he has the potential to come back out of the shadows of his extra illustrious skipper Shakib Al Hasan. He bowled a few classical left-arm spinner’s deliveries to eliminate Kohli within the first hour and Pujara within the remaining half hour to negate the benefit that India had gained after the autumn of three wickets.
Pujara departs after a superb knock of 90 off 203 deliveries.#GroupIndia 261/5
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— BCCI (@BCCI) December 14, 2022
In case of Kohli, he tossed it up and bowled a fuller size because the batter went on the back-foot. The ball turned sufficient to hit him on the back-pad. If Kohli ended up being plumb in entrance on the back-foot, Pujara offered a useless defence on the front-foot and noticed the ball beat the skin fringe of his bat to hit the off-stick. Iyer, for one, was fortunate when he was crushed via the gate by Ebadot Hossain and the ball hit the stumps with the bail being disturbed from its groove however didn’t fall.
While Pujara had 11 fours to his credit score, Iyer has 10 hits to the fence up to now. But total, the batting efficiency left so much to be desired. It was Pant who confirmed the much-needed aggression, hitting six fours and two sixes in his knock as he together with Pujara (42 not out) added 64 runs after India have been decreased to 48 for 3 within the twentieth over.
India expectedly opted to bat however squandered the chance by permitting the Bangladesh bowlers to dominate the proceedings.
The aggressive method that Rahul spoke about forward of the sport was lacking within the first session.
Spin was launched as early as within the sixth over and Rahul greeted his counterpart Shakib Al Hasan with a reduce via the purpose area. Gill too confirmed intent with a reduce and pull off pacer Hossain within the following over as India reached 30 for no loss in seven overs. However, the boundaries dried up thereafter as Bangladesh bowlers caught to stump-to-stump line and stifled the Indians.
Gill perished to a poor shot, an avoidable sweep, whereas Rahul performed away from his physique off pacer Khaled Ahmed solely to pull it again on to the stumps. The top-order batters might have used their ft extra in opposition to the spinners however most popular to remain again within the crease. The much-needed attacking method was displayed as soon as once more by Pant who put the strain again on Islam by smashing him for a few fours and a six over broad long-on.
Pant welcomed offie Miraz with a sq. reduce whereas Islam conceded two boundaries within the final over of the morning session.
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Pujara ought to have been dismissed very early within the second session however Nurul Hasan couldn’t maintain on to the uncommon alternative within the twenty seventh over off Hossain. Pant continued to search for fast runs and hammered Miraz and Hossain for 2 extra boundaries. The keeper-batter additionally clobbered Miraz over deep midwicket for a most however the spinner had the final chuckle as he cleaned him up subsequent ball within the thirty second over.
