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Chennai Test Day 3 Lunch: Pant-Gill on the verge of century, India's total lead reaches 432 runs – News India Live | News India

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Chennai, September 21 (HS). India has scored 205 runs for 3 wickets till lunch on the third day of the first test match of the two-match test series being played at MA Chidambaram Stadium here. India's total lead has increased to 432 runs. Shubman Gill is playing after scoring 86 runs and Pant is playing after scoring 82 runs.

Pant scored a half-century in international cricket after 638 days

The Indian team started playing this morning from their yesterday's score of 81 runs for 3 wickets. Yesterday's unbeaten batsmen Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant started playing cautiously. Both the batsmen also completed their half-centuries during this period. Especially Pant completed his half-century in 88 balls, which was his slowest till date and his first international half-century after 638 days.

After completing his half-century, Pant came back to his old style and added 32 runs in the next 20 balls. On the other hand, Gill also showed some speed and started playing his shots. So far, there has been a partnership of 138 runs between the two in 190 balls. India has scored 205 runs for 3 wickets till lunch. Pant is unbeaten on 82 runs in 108 balls with the help of 9 fours and 3 sixes and Gill is unbeaten on 87 runs in 137 balls with the help of 7 fours and 3 sixes.

The Indian team had scored 376 runs in its first innings. After this, Bangladesh's first innings was reduced to 149 runs. The Indian team got a lead of 227 runs. Now in the second innings, India has scored 205 runs for 3 wickets and its total lead has become 432 runs.

Bangladesh's first innings were bundled out for 149 runs

Earlier, Bangladesh's first innings was reduced to 149 runs. Bangladesh did not have a good start and on the score of just 40 runs, Shadman Islam 02 runs, Zakir Hasan 03 runs, captain Nazmul Hasan Shanto 20 runs, Mushfiqur Rahim 08 runs and Mominul returned to the pavilion without opening the account. After this, Shakib Al Hasan and Liton Das shared 51 runs for the sixth wicket and took the team's score to 91 runs. Ravindra Jadeja then sent Liton Das and then Shakib to the pavilion, putting Bangladesh in deep trouble. Liton scored 22 and Shakib scored 32 runs. After these two, Bangladesh's innings soon got reduced to 149 runs. Mehdi Hasan Miraz remained unbeaten after scoring 27 runs. Taskin Ahmed and Nahid Rana contributed 11-11 runs.

For the Indian team, Jasprit Bumrah took 4 wickets, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj and Ravindra Jadeja took 2 wickets each.

India scored 376 runs in the first innings, Ashwin scored a century

The Indian team scored 376 runs in its first innings. Star all-rounder Ravichandran Ashwin scored 113 runs in 133 balls, playing a brilliant century innings. He hit 2 sixes and 11 fours in his innings. Ravindra Jadeja also played a good innings and scored an excellent 86 runs. Jadeja hit 2 sixes and 10 fours in his innings. Apart from these, opener Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 56 runs, hitting a half-century. Rishabh Pant contributed 39 runs, KL Rahul 16 runs, Rohit Sharma 6, Virat Kohli 6, Jaspreet Bumrah 7, Akash Deep contributed 17 runs.

For Bangladesh, Hasan Mahmud took 5 wickets, Taskin Ahmed took 3, Mehdi Hasan Miraz and Nahid Rana took 1 wicket each.