It took India only about two days to beat Bangladesh and bag the second Test match on the 1st of October, Tuesday at Kanpur by 7 wickets. The Test began after India had justified their rank by taking the first Test in Chennai by a more convincing 280 runs.
The 2-0 clean sweep of this Test series saw India further cement their commanding position in the World Test Championship (WTC) table. It also ensured that the Rohit Sharma’s side remains unbeaten in Test matches in India since 2012 when they last lost a series. Since then, India has lost four test matches out of 7 series.
India’s win in the cricket match was achieved on the fourth and fifth day mainly with the second and third day being completely rained out. The first day of play in the Test match was also affected by weather with Bangladesh batting for only 35 less than 44 overs being bowled.
On Tuesday, Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja huddled the spinners along with the speedster Jasprit Bumrah, as they bowled out Bangladesh for 146 runs by the second innings, which only required a mere 95 runs only as a target by the home team.
The lunch session was brought forward by the Bangladesh team for thirty minutes in order that the entire innings for Bangladesh could be completed.
It was the trio of Ashwin 3/50, Jadeja 3/34, and Bumrah 3/17 who were responsible for the lethal attack on Bangladesh, who entered the day at 26/2, managing to add only 120 runs after the loss of eight wickets in the extended hour and fifteen minutes that followed.
In second innings, the overnight batter Shadman Islam was the top-scorer for the Bangladesh team, contributing fifty runs to the when everyone else failed in the odds.
Consequently, clubbing his third victim, Ashwin put down Mominul Haque in the leg slip for two.
Islam (50) and murad captain Najmul Hossain Shanto (19) offered some resistance, contributing 55 runs between them, ever so faintly before the Indian bowlers took over scalping the Bangladeshi batting.
Eventually, Jadeja dislodged the wicket of Shanto. Shanto should not have attempted the questionable reverse sweep in the first place given the circumstances.
Shadman added a fifty to his score before getting too adventurous and was caught by Yashasvi Jaiswal at Slip off seamster Akash Deep.
Bumrah and left-arm spinner Jadeja walked and followed the back batsmen, exonerating Litton Das and Shakib Al Hassan in consecutive overs and seamer Mehidy Hasan Miraz pinned down Bangladesh.
Mushfiqur Rahim (37) found his batting shorts with Bumrah in the morning session and stayed longer than intended until the gems zipped his masculinity further inside out at the frostbite of tender.
Barring, Rishabh took the final honours of the match to win it for the team and the crowd, lifting the ball over the boundary line almost at will, which was math with a miraculous turn of events after two days of no play. Virat Kohli occupied the other end, remaining unbeaten on 29. Before, Bangladesh managed to get bowled out for isolated for sticker in their 233, before making more than enough runs rapidly in 285 runs nine wickets.
To the story: Bangladesh 233) all out (Shadman Islam 50) 233 A.I. Bangladesh 146 all out (Ravichandran Ashwin 3/50, Ravindra Jadeja 3/34, Jasprit Bumrah 3/17) lost to India 285/9 declared, and 98/3 (Yashasvi Jaiswal 51, Virat Kohli 29* batsman Mehidy Hasan Miraz 2/44) by 7 wickets In the first Test India played down to dominate the once dominant and has fallen oval.
