Openers cleaned up early

Published at 12:36 am November 17th, 2019

Bangladesh's Shadman Islam is cleaned up during day three of their first Test against India in Indore Saturday AFP

Bangladesh lost both the openers in back to back overs in the first innings and the same scenario was repeated in the second innings

The Tigers’ opening pair in the Indore Test failed again as both the openers Imrul Kayes and Shadman Islam got out scoring single digit runs.

Bangladesh lost both the openers in back to back overs in the first innings and the same scenario was repeated in the second innings.

Both the openers again departed in successive overs, first Imrul in the last ball of the sixth over and then Shadman in the last ball of the seventh over.

Interestingly, both Imrul and Shadman scored six each in the first and second innings!

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And the common thing is, Bangladesh were right under pressure in the first hour of a day’s play on two occasions.

In the second innings, both the openers got cleaned up as their stumps were uprooted by Umesh Yadav and Ishant Sharma.

Not a happy sight for an opening batsman but in contrast, obviously a great scene for a fast bowler.

1ST TEST, DAY 3

BANGLADESH 1ST INNINGS R B

Shadman c Saha b Ishant 6 24

Imrul c Rahane b Yadav 6 18

Mominul b Ashwin 37 80

Mithun lbw b Shami 13 36

Mushfiq b Shami 43 105

Mahmudullah b Ashwin 10 30

Liton c Kohli b Ishant 21 31

Miraz lbw b Shami 0 1

Taijul run out (Jadeja/Saha) 1 7

Jayed not out 7 14

Ebadat b Yadav 2 5

Extras (lb3, w1) 4

Total (58.3 overs) 150

Fall Of Wickets

1-12 (Imrul), 2-12 (Shadman), 3-31 (Mithun), 4-99 (Mominul), 5-115 (Mahmudullah), 6-140 (Mushfiq), 7-140 (Miraz), 8-140 (Liton), 9-148 (Taijul), 10-150 (Ebadat)

Bowling: Ishant 12-6-20-2, Yadav 14.3-3-47-2, Shami 13-5-27-3 (w1), Ashwin 16-1-43-2, Jadeja 3-0-10-0

INDIA 1ST INNINGS R B

Agarwal c Jayed b Miraz 243 330

Rohit c Liton b Jayed 6 14

Pujara c sub (Saif) b Jayed 54 72

Kohli lbw b Jayed 0 2

Rahane c Taijul b Jayed 86 172

Jadeja not out 60 76

Saha b Ebadat 12 11

Yadav not out 25 10

Extras (lb1, nb3, w3) 7

Total (114 overs) 493/6D

Fall Of Wickets

1-14 (Rohit), 2-105 (Pujara), 3-119 (Kohli), 4-309 (Rahane), 5-432 (Agarwal), 6-454 (Saha)

Bowling: Ebadat 31-5-115-1 (w3), Jayed 25-3-108-4 (nb3), Taijul 28-4-120-0, Mehidy 27-0-125-1, Mahmudullah 3-0-24-0

BANGLADESH 2ND INNINGS R B

Shadman b Ishant 6 24

Kayes b Yadav 6 13

Mominul lbw b Shami 7 20

Mithun c Agarwal b Shami 18 26

Mushfiq c Pujara b Ashwin 64 150

Mahmudullah c Rohit b Shami 15 35

Liton c & b Ashwin 35 39

Miraz b Yadav 38 55

Taijul c Saha b Shami 6 43

Jayed not out 4 9

Ebadat c Yadav b Ashwin 1 3

Extras (b 2, lb 9, nb 1, w 1) 13

Total (69.2 Overs) 213 all out

Fall Of Wickets

1-10 (Kayes), 2-16 (Shadman), 3-37 (Mominul), 4-44 (Mithun), 5-72 (Mahmudullah), 6-135 (Liton), 7-194 (Miraz), 8-208 (Taijul), 9-208 (Mushfiq), 10-213 (Ebadat)

Bowling

Ishant 11-3-31-1, Yadav 14-1-51-2, Shami 16-7-31-4, Jadeja 14-2-47-0, Ashwin 14.2-6-42-3

India won by an innings and 130 runs

MoM: Mayank Agarwal