India’s speedster Umesh Yadav is a powerful hitter off the ball. He has got some extraordinary finesse of smashing big sixes. On the 2nd day of India vs Bangladesh Test, Umesh once again showed his skills as he opened his account with a 100-meter huge six.
He came in at no. 10 and scored an unbeaten 15 off 10 balls. He also smashed two huge sixes. With the help of his cameo, India reached the 400-run mark in the first innings.
R Ashwin and Kuldeep Yadav added 87 runs for the 8th wicket which helped India regain a position of dominance. While Ashwin made 58 off 113, Kuldeep also chipped in with 40 runs off 114 balls. However, this was not the most significant contribution of the day for the left-arm leg-spinner. The 28-year-old returned to take 4 wickets with the ball for 33 runs and put Bangladesh in a massive spot of bother.
His scalps included Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib Al Hasan, Nurul Hasan, and Taijul Islam. He along with Mohammed Siraj, who too finished Day 2 with superb figures of 3/14, broke the backbone of Bangladesh's batting as they ended Day 2 on 133/8, still trailing India's total by 271 runs. This implies that the home team needs a further 72 runs to avoid follow-on but only have 2 wickets remaining.
Earlier, Shreyas Iyer and Cheteshwar Pujara played a blinder and helped India put 404 on the board. Unfortunately, they could not get to their respective centuries.
Squads:
India: KL Rahul (captain), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Mohammed Siraj, Saurabh Kumar, Kona Bharat, Kuldeep Yadav, Abhimanyu Easwaran.
Bangladesh: Shakib Al Hasan (captain), Litton Das (wk), Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Mominul Haque, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Mahmudul Hasan Joy, Anamul Haque Bijoy, Khaled Ahmed, Ebadot Hossain, Shoriful Islam, Taskin Ahmed, Taijul Islam, Najmul Hossain Shanta, Rejaul Rahaman Raja, Zakir Hasan (wk), Nurul Hasan (wk), Yasir Ali.