Bangladesh lost two wickets in the opening session of the Test match against India in Dhaka.
The hosts, Bangladesh, won the toss and elected to bat first. Najmul Hossain Shanto and Zakir Hasan provided a solid opening partnership, seeing out the first hour without any loss of wicket.
Bangladesh would have been in an even stronger position had they not lost the openers within a span of four deliveries.
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Zakir (15) was defeated by the wily Jaydev, whose delivery had extra bounce. Unable to counter it with an offensive shot, Zakir could only meekly defend the ball, which was eventually caught cleanly by Lokesh Rahul at the cordon.
Ravichandran Ashwin got the breakthrough in the following over, dismissing Shanto (24) with an outside off-stump delivery that hit Shanto’s pad. The Indians’ vociferous LBW appeal was upheld by the umpire and confirmed as correct by ball-tracking technology.
India were guilty of missing further opportunities, with Rishabh Pant failing to capitalise on a stumping chance and Mohammad Siraj being too slow to react to a catchable ball from his fine leg position.
Mominul Haque and Shakib Al Hasan provided some much-needed resistance after the early departure of the openers, with Mominul in particular looking to be regaining form after a difficult passage of play.
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Till break on day one, Bangladesh were batting at 82 for 2, with Shakib and Mominul batting respectively for 16 and 23.
Bangladesh opted to make two changes to their playing XI, swapping Yasir Ali and Ebadot Hossain for Mominul Haque and Taskin Ahmed respectively.
India also elected to make a change, bringing Jaydev Unadkat into the line-up in place of Kuldeep Yadav. This marked a memorable return for Jaydev, who had last played a Test match 12 years ago and had not been given a Test opportunity for 118 matches. He now had the chance to demonstrate his skills at the highest level once more.
Source: United News of Bangladesh