Watch: Rishabh Pant stumps Nurul Hasan with his lighting fast stumping on Day 4 of first Test
Bangladesh are chasing a massive target of 513.
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Dec 17, 2022 5:59 pm
Rishabh Pant (Source: Twitter)
The riveting Bangladesh vs India first Test continued on Day 4. Chasing a massive Target of 513, Bangladesh openers resumed the innings on 42/0 and extended their partnership to 124. After finally getting the breakthrough after 46 overs, Indian bowlers began running through the Bangladesh batting. During the action-packed Day 3, wicketkeeper batter Rishabh Pant also put on display his quick glove work behind the stumps and dismissed Nurul Hasan.
The incident took place on the last ball of the 88th over bowled by Axar Patel. Patel bowled a flighted delivery that sharply turned and beat Hasan’s bat who was looking to play through the cover. While playing the cover drive, Hasan lost his balance as his backfoot came out of the popping crease. Seeing his foot out of the crease, Pant quickly collected the ball and completed the stumping in a fraction of a second.
Coming back to the match, Bangladesh openers made India toil hard in the field in the first session. The duo occupied the crease and negated the threat from both ends. The first session belonged to Bangladesh as India failed to break the opening stand with Bangladesh on 119/0.
The second session finally brought some success for India as Umesh Yadav made Najmul Hossain Shanto poke at a delivery outside the off stump and edged to Virat Kohli at first slip. There was more drama to follow as the ball slipped out of Kohli’s hands, however, Pant showed great presence of mind and dived to grab the ball before it hit the ground and completed the catch. Shanto departed after scoring a well-made 67.
Zakir Hasan became the fourth Bangladesh player to score a hundred on his Test Debut
After losing his partner, debutant opener Zakir Hasan continued his brilliant innings and brought up his maiden hundred on his debut. He became the fourth Bangladesh player to achieve the feat.
Axar Patel picked up the second wicket as he cleaned up Yasir Ali with a beauty. The KL Rahul-led side further managed to pick four more wickets in the Day as Bangladesh finished Day 4 on 272/6 with Shakib Al Hasan and Mehidy Hasan Miraz at the crease. Bangladesh require another 241 runs to win the first Test on Day 5 while India need four wickets. Axar Patel was the pick of the bowlers for India on Day 4 having figures of 3/50 in 27 overs.
