India are finding it difficult to make progress in the Dhaka Test against Bangladesh, as the home team’s spin bowlers are dominating during the morning session of day four.
India started the day aiming to score 100 runs to win the match with six wickets in hand. But they lost three more wickets, adding 29 runs to their overnight total of 45 runs.
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Shakib removed Jaydev Unadkat in the second over of the day. Jaydev hit a six in the first over bowled by Mehidy Hasan Miraz and survived an LBW appeal by the umpire’s call.
Mehidy put further pressure by removing Rishabh Pant and overnight not-out batter Axar Patel.
With this, Mehidy completed his ninth five-wicket haul in Tests. He had taken three more on day three.
After losing 7 for 74, Shreyas Iyer and Ravichandran Ashwin came together and are guiding India on a difficult Mirpur surface.
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Bangladesh went to bat first in the match and put up 227 runs, led by Mominul Haque’s 84. India responded with a stronger performance, as Pant and Iyer both scored well to build a first-innings lead of 87 runs, bringing the team’s total score to 314.
In their second innings of the match, Bangladesh put a good effort, with Zakir Hasan scoring a fifty to help push their tally to 231. India thus had a target of 145 for a win.
Source: United News of Bangladesh