Cricket, Bangladesh tour of India: Visitors need 357 runs, hosts six wickets away from win
India declared on 287/4 with Shubman Gill unbeaten on 119 to give Bangladesh a target of 515 to chase over two and a half days.
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India are firmly on top at the end of Day 3 in the first Test in Chennai against Bangladesh on Saturday.
The hosts had resumed play on Day 3 at 81/3 and declared on 287/4 with both Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant scoring centuries. The visitors were set a target of 515 to win and bad light closed play on Saturday with Bangladesh at 158/4. Bangladesh captain Najmul Hossain Shanto remained unbeaten on 51 while veteran all-rounder Shakib al Hasan is not out on 5.
Ravichandran Ashwin, the star of India’s batting from the first innings, picked up three wickets while Jasprit Bumrah took the wicket of Zakir Hasan for 33.
India’s second innings saw Mehidy Hasan Miraz pick up two wickets with Taskin Ahmed and Nahid Rana taking one wicket each.
Gill and Pant were fluent in the morning session, bringing up 100 runs in the fourth-wicket partnership by 161 balls. While Pant had already reached his half-century, Gill was six runs away from his half-century.
Pant then went on to bring up his sixth Test century in 124 balls, just over two years after his car crash that left him severely injured, equalling MS Dhoni’s record of most centuries by an Indian wicketkeeper....
