Hyderabad: India won the one-off Test match against Bangladesh here by 208 runs.
All You need to know about the match:
In the first innings of the match India declared its inning on 687 runs with loss of 6 wickets.
Virat Kohli was the highest scorer of the inning as he scored a brilliant double knock of 204 runs in just 246 balls. With that knock, Kohli was successful to clinch the Man of the Match and becomes the first batsman to score double hundreds in four consecutive series surpassing Don Bradman and Rahul Dravid.
Following the enormous chase of 687 runs Bangladesh innings finished on 388 runs. In which Umesh Yadav played a vital role in departing Soumya Sarkar, Momimul Haque and Taijul Islam.
Virat Kohli did not enforce Bangladesh to play the follow-on of 100 runs. He decided to play the second innings of the match and declared the innings at 159-4.
Chasing the target of 469 runs Bangladesh scored 103-3 till the stumps of Day-4.
Resuming the day on 103/3, once again Bangladesh’s hope of not losing an early wicket was dented by Jadeja in the third over itself. Bowling round the wicket, the ball pitched on one of the footmarks and took off to kiss Shakib Al Hasan’s glove and was taken by Cheteshwar Pujara at short leg. With plenty of turn and bounce on offer, Virat Kohli brought in five close-in fielders around the bat.
Fresh off a century in the first innings, Mushfiqur began cautiously before deciding to move his feet to Ashwin. In the past, batsmen have been found guilty of playing him on the backfoot so perhaps Mushfiqur had a plan in mind. When he hit a sublime cover drive for four off him the ploy seemed to have begun well. But two balls later, Mushfiqur offered a leading edge and threw his wicket away. Credit must also go to Jadeja for constantly bowling at Mushfiqur’s pads and frustrate him.
At the other end, as India applied pressure through Ishant and Umesh Yadav’s reverse, Mahmudullah held his ground. He scored his first boundary off the 46th delivery faced and even that was an edge after Ishant had squared him up outside off. But with the wicket of Mushfiqur, Mahmudullah opted to get a move on. He did so by skipping down to Jadeja and sending him for successive boundaries in the 50th over.
In the end Ravinder Jadeja bowled the last delievery down to the leg side of Mushfiqur Rahim and he tried to sweep it and got the edge on his glove and goes into the safe hands of the keeper. which resulted into the last wicket of Bangladesh squad and let the India wins with the margin of 208 runs.
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