While I am writing these lines, 2nd day of the first test between Bangladesh and Pakistan have been concluded, where Pakistan is craving down Bangladesh score with 145 runs for no loss, means openers of Pakistan innings still intact.
Day 2 summary
Stumps Pakistan 145 for 0 (Abid 93*, Shafique 52*) trail Bangladesh 330 (Liton 114, Mushfiqur 91, Hasan 5-51) by 185 runs
Stars of the day
Hasan Ali's fifth Test five-for this year - and sixth overall - put Bangladesh on the back foot before openers Abid Ali and Abdullah Shafique cemented Pakistan's dominance on the second day of the Chattogram Test. Abid was unbeaten on 93, nearing his fourth Test century, while debutant Shafique had hit a half-century when the day's play ended, Pakistan 145 for no loss after bowling Bangladesh out for 330.
They blunted a Bangladesh bowling attack in
which the pacers only tried a fourth-stump channel, often veering too
wide, and the spinners were happy to only contain the batters. The
absence of the more penetrative Shakib Al Hasan and Taskin Ahmed is
already being felt.
Abid and Shafique had
already put on 79 during the middle session, offering very little to the
Bangladesh bowlers. Abid was the enforcer, reaching his fifty off 84
balls, while Shafique was mostly circumspect. He reached his fifty off
153 balls, striking two sixes over mid-wicket and mid-on, apart from
hitting two fours.
Abid
was the more enterprising all along, hitting six of his nine boundaries
between backward point
and cover. Both his sixes came through midwicket, as he looked to settle down for the long haul.
and cover. Both his sixes came through midwicket, as he looked to settle down for the long haul.
Chances not grasp
Bangladesh's only sniff came in the 13th
over when Taijul Islam appealed for lbw against Shafique. At first look,
it seemed Shafique had struck the ball with his bat. Taijul couldn't
convince his captain to take the review, which soon revealed that the
ball had struck Shafique's pad first. He was a very strong candidate for
lbw.
Big teams ain't gonna give such chances
Pakistan too missed a couple of
similar chances on the first day, but they didn't make the same mistakes
on the second morning. Their ascendency began in the second over when
Hasan's searing opening spell spoiled Bangladesh's first-day progress.
He trapped Liton Das
lbw for 114 with a delivery that zipped into his back leg, and trapped
him lbw. It ended the fifth-wicket stand, which yielded 206 runs with Mushfiqur Rahim, only the second double-hundred stand by Bangladesh against Pakistan.
Rear feat. for Hasan Ali
Mehidy Hasan Miraz struck six fours in his unbeaten 38, but he was left stranded when Shaheen Shah Afridi and Hasan cleaned up the tail quickly. When Bangladesh bat a second time in the game, Hasan will be on a hat-trick, as he removed Abu Jayed and Ebadat Hossain off consecutive balls to close out the Bangladesh innings.
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