IND vs BAN, 1st Test, Day 2 Lunch: Mayank Inches Closer To Ton, India Lead By 38

At the lunch break, opener Mayank Agarwal (91*) was at the crease, accompanied with vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane (35*)

A day after the Indian bowlers humiliated Bangladesh, the batters put India on driver seat with a 38-run first-innings lead on the second day of the Indore Test. At the lunch break, opener Mayank Agarwal (91*) was at the crease, accompanied with vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane (35*). Resuming the game at 86/1, the duo of Mayank and Cheteshwar Pujara continued the cruise control kept the scoreboard ticking. The latter brought up his 23^rd Test fifty before Abu Jayed lured him into a drive in the fourth over of the day. The ball took the outside edge and substitute fielder Saif Hassan did well to dive to his left and hold on at fourth slip. The second-wicket stand between Pujara and Agarwal thus ended on 91. Mayank got to his fifty with a four in the next over but then Abu Jayed struck again for Bangladesh in the next with the all-important wicket of Indian skipper Virat Kohli. The umpire had initially not raised his finger for the LBW appeal but Mominul Haque went for the review. Ball tracking showed that the delivery would have taken Kohli's leg stump and the decision was reversed. Kohli was dismissed for a two-ball duck. However, that was the last Indian wicket to fall in the session with Ajinkya Rahane sticking on with Agarwal to post 69 runs for the fourth wicket. In the process, Rahane became the 16th Indian to go past 4,000 Test runs. The pair expertly chipped away at the Bangladeshi bowlers as India surpassed their opponents' first-innings total.