India vs Bangladesh: Homeboy Ashwin to the rescue after top-order wobble

Ashwin shared a 195-run unbroken basal with Jadeja aft India were reduced to 144-6 connected the archetypal time of the archetypal Test.

India’s Ravichandran Ashwin smashed a accelerated 100 and combined with Ravindra Jadeja successful an epic rearguard enactment arsenic the hosts overcame a top-order meltdown to scope 339 for six against Bangladesh connected the opening time of the archetypal Test match.

Bangladesh seamer Hasan Mahmud’s three-wicket burst successful the greeting league had India reeling astatine 34-3 wrong the opening hr astatine the MA Chidambaram Stadium successful Chennai.

Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal made 56 but it was the marathon 195-run unbroken basal for the seventh wicket betwixt Ashwin and Jadeja that helped India claw their mode backmost into the contest.

Ashwin’s unbeaten 102 disconnected 112 balls, his sixth trial hundred, included 10 fours and 2 sixes. Jadeja, batting connected 86, was closing successful connected his 5th trial hundred.

“On a aboveground similar this with a spot of spice, if you’re going aft the ball, mightiness arsenic good spell aft it truly hard … ,” Ashwin said.

“It’s the aged Chennai aboveground with a spot of bounce and transportation and the reddish ungraded transportation allows you to play a fewer shots.

“If you’re consenting to conscionable get successful enactment … and tin springiness the shot a small spot of tonk, it truly helps.”

Bangladesh are connected a precocious aft their 2-0 bid expanse successful Pakistan earlier this period and they dominated the archetypal 2 sessions aft skipper Najmul Hossain Shanto elected to field.

Home skipper Rohit Sharma (six) needed 11 balls to get disconnected the people and survived a vociferous lbw entreaty earlier edging Hasan to Shanto astatine 2nd slip.

In his adjacent over, Hasan had Shubman Gill caught down for a duck tickling the shot down the limb side.

Virat Kohli besides fell to a brushed dismissal, driving distant from his assemblage to beryllium caught down for six.

Challenging conditions and departing partners could not bog down Jaiswal though, and the opener played gorgeous drives and exquisite flicks.

Rishabh Pant (39), playing his archetypal trial since a horrific car clang successful December 2022, chopped and pulled fearlessly and scored briskly to crook the vigor backmost connected the bowlers.

Hasan broke the 62-run basal soon aft the luncheon interruption erstwhile Pant’s lazy waft to a transportation wide extracurricular the off-stump led to different brushed dismissal.

Nahid Rana ended Jaiswal’s fluent sound and spinner Mehidy Hasan Miraz removed KL Rahul earlier Ashwin combined with Jadeja to motorboat a spectacular counterattack.