Kanpur, 30 September (HIST). The fourth day of play of the second Test match being played between India and Bangladesh at the Green Park Stadium in Kanpur has ended. By the end of Monday's play, the visiting team had scored 26 runs after losing two wickets. Shadman Islam is on 7 runs and Mominul Haq is at the crease without opening the account. Ashwin has taken both the wickets for India.
The match could not be played for the last two days due to rain and the field being wet. The match finally took place on Monday, the fourth day, when the weather cleared. The Indian team bowled out Bangladesh's first innings for 233 runs and then played fast and declared its first innings at 285 runs for 9 wickets. India took a lead of 52 runs over Bangladesh. After this, Bangladesh did not have a good start in the second innings. Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin gave the first blow to Bangladesh by dismissing Zakir Hasan LBW. Zakir scored 10 runs. Ashwin also took the second wicket of Bangladesh. He sent Hasan Mahmood to the pavilion. Hasan scored four runs. By the end of today's play, Bangladesh had lost 2 wickets for 26 runs. It is still trailing by 26 runs behind the Indian team. Now one day's play is left. In such a situation, this competition has become exciting. The Indian team is leading 1-0 in the 2-match test series.
Before this, the Indian team made a strong start in its first innings. Captain Rohit Sharma along with Yashasvi Jaiswal crossed the 50-run mark in the first three overs itself. The first wicket of the Indian team fell on the score of 55 in the fourth over. Captain Rohit was out after scoring 23 runs in 11 balls with the help of one four and three sixes. After this, Yashasvi Jaiswal also batted fast and scored a half-century in 31 balls. Yashasvi was out after playing a quick inning of 72 runs in 51 balls. Wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant came to bat at number four. He led the innings with Shubman Gill. The Indian team suffered its third setback at the score of 141. Shubman was out after scoring 39 runs in 36 balls with the help of four fours and one six. After this the fourth wicket fell at the score of 159. Rishabh could not do anything amazing and was out after scoring nine runs. From here, Virat Kohli and KL Rahul took the innings forward by making a half-century partnership. India's fifth wicket fell at the score of 246 in the form of Virat Kohli. Kohli was out after scoring 47 runs in 35 balls. After Kohli, the Indian team batted a few more overs and declared the innings after scoring 285 runs for 9 wickets. Ravindra Jadeja scored 8 runs, Ravichandran Ashwin scored one run, KL Rahul scored 68 runs in 43 balls with the help of seven fours and two sixes and Akash Deep scored 12 runs in 5 balls. For Bangladesh, Mehdi Hasan Miraj and Shakib Al Hasan took four wickets each, while Hasan Mahmood got one wicket.
Bangladesh's first innings was reduced to 233 runs. Mominul Haq played an unbeaten century and scored 107 runs. After three days, the weather remained clear in Kanpur this morning. Bangladesh started playing ahead with its score of 107 runs for 3 wickets. Although the Bangladeshi team was able to add only 5 runs to its score, then Bumrah gave India the fourth success by bowling Mushfiqur Rahim (11). After this, at the score of 148, Rohit Sharma took an excellent catch on Siraj's ball and dismissed Liton Das. Liton scored 13 runs. Even the experienced Shakib could not do anything special and became the victim of Ashwin after scoring only 9 runs. Mominul completed his century amidst wickets falling at regular intervals. On the total score of 224, Bumrah sent Mehdi Hasan Miraj (20) to the pavilion. After this, the remaining 3 wickets of Bangladesh fell for 9 runs and the entire team was reduced to 233 runs. Mominul returned unbeaten after scoring 107 runs. For India, Jasprit Bumrah took 3 wickets, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammad Siraj and Akash Deep took 2 wickets each and Ravindra Jadeja took 1 wicket.