India reached 205 for 3 in 51 overs by lunch, with a commanding lead of 432 runs. Pant remained unbeaten on 82, whereas Gill used to be now not out on 86.
TBS File
21 September, 2024, 12:35 pm
Final modified: 21 September, 2024, 12:41 pm
Bangladesh bowlers struggled to score opportunities and did now not capitalize on the finest one they managed, as India’s in a single day batters, Rishabh Pant and Shubman Gill, extended their body of workers’s lead previous 400 on Day 3 of the first Take a look at at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.
India reached 205 for 3 in 51 overs by lunch, with a commanding lead of 432 runs. Pant remained unbeaten on 82, whereas Gill used to be now not out on 86.
The guests ignored the major chance when captain Najmul Hossain Shanto dropped Pant on 72. The left-hander mistimed a slog sweep off Shakib Al Hasan in the 49th over, skying the ball, but Shanto did now not preserve on.
Resuming the day at 81 for 3 in overcast stipulations, Pant and Gill adopted a obvious means, constructing an unbroken 138-poke partnership for the fourth wicket. They took on the Bangladesh bowlers, who chanced on minute assistance from the pitch. Spinners Mehedi Hasan Miraz and Shakib Al Hasan bore the brunt of the aggression, as both batters steadily frail their ft to disrupt the bowlers.
Gill reached his seventh Take a look at fifty off seventy nine balls, smashing two sixes off Miraz in the job. He later added any other six off the the same bowler. Pant, after a cautious initiate, accelerated with a one-handed six over prolonged-off against Miraz.
Pant notched up his 12th Take a look at fifty, playing with flair, at the side of a series of slog sweeps against Shakib. Even after being dropped, he persevered to assault, reverse-sweeping Shakib for a boundary to lift up his 100-poke stand with Gill. Within the last over sooner than lunch, Pant struck two extra boundaries off Shakib, underlining India’s dominance.
