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India VsIndia Vs. Bangladesh 1st Test Live Streaming: Mahmudullah, after posting a maiden half-century, couldn't rally around the tail, and Bangladesh squandered the advantage that the 108-run seventh-wicket stand had secured them. In two overs after tea, Bangladesh lost the two remaining batsmen meekly, falling one short of India's first-innings total, and giving them close to two hours to build up a lead.

Mahmudullah smote the first ball after tea for four, but when he lofted the fifth ball of the over over mid-on, he came back for two - any other settled batsman would have taken a single and taken the whole of next over. Under pressure to take a single next ball, he opened the face and edged Sreesanth to Dinesh Karthik. Shafiul Islam got off the mark in Tests with a mowed six, but sliced the next ball he to point.

Three quick wickets followed by a resolute 108-run stand between Mahmudullah and Mushfiqur Rahim pushed the Chittagong Test towards a promising finish. The seventh-wicket partnership stopped a procession of wickets to outside edges, made India go without a wicket for almost a full session, and all but led Bangladesh to a first-innings lead. With every run struck off India's lead, their chances of winning the Test grew bleaker, especially given how murky conditions have affected play everyday.

Zaheer Khan, the pick of the bowlers, struggled for support, with Sreesanth warned once for running on the pitch and over-stepping almost every second delivery, and with Amit Mishra not looking effective at all. Mahmudullah, who brought up his first Test fifty, got stuck into Mishra. Between them, Sreesanth and Mishra bowled 10 no-balls.

The day so far belonged to Mahmudullah and Mushfiqur, who came together at 98 for 6, after three middle-order batsmen had edged each of India's fast bowlers. The duo didn't entirely abort the shots that had proved to be fatal for the earlier batsmen, but were slightly more sensible. They did get away with plays and misses to begin with, but when they chased the wide ones, soft hands meant the ball didn't fly towards slips. In fact the third man area bled profusely for India: eight boundaries were hit through the gap. Last checked, there was still no third man in place for the quicker bowlers.

The other big difference the two made was the running between the wickets. They ran hard, and they ran more often, which meant neither of the batsmen got stuck at one end for too long. Nineteen boundaries had been hit before the two came together, 14 came during their stand.

As the stand grew bigger, the batsmen grew surer. Mahmudullah started targeting Mishra, driving him through the covers, lofting him over mid-on, and paddling him to rotate the strike. Mushfiqur's pull off Zaheer stood out, but just when the lead looked within sight, he ran out of luck with the ill-advised shots. The attempt at slog-sweep from outside off resulted in a top edge that brought Mishra his first wicket.

With Shahadat Hossain looking edgy, Mahmudullah looked to take control, but the quick 23-run stand came to an end in the last over before tea when Shahadat showed lack of application and chipped Mishra to cover.

In the first half of the day, India didn't have to wait for so long for breakthroughs. Zaheer and Ishant continued from their impressive spells from the second day and the batsmen kept obliging. There was slight seam movement and bounce in the pitch, enough to make the batsmen regularly play down the wrong line.

Mohammad Ashraful was all at sea early in the morning, playing Zaheer away from the body, and getting squared up by Ishant. The ever so slight holding of the line from Ishant, and a shade of extra bounce, was enough to awkwardly square up Ashraful and take the shoulder of the bat. Shakib Al Hasan looked to counterattack, hitting four boundaries in the next four overs. Again all it took was a slight straightening of the ball, and a slash at a wide delivery was flying over gully when Virender Sehwag intercepted it perfectly.

When Zaheer and Ishant were taken off simultaneously, they had bowled 23 overs between them for five wickets and 59 runs. Sreesanth came back to end Raqibul Hasan's resistance, who too played inside the line of a straight delivery.

India Vs. Bangladesh 1st Test Live Streaming

By: peter




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