Tigers 103 for 3 after Day-4

Sport Desk: Bangladesh ended the day at 103/3 with Shakib Al Hasan and Mahmudullah at the crease having lost Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar and Mominul Haque.

Earlier, host India declared their innings at lunch after setting a target of 459 runs for Bangladesh at Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on Sunday.

Shakib Al Hasan was batting on 21 from 42 and Mahmudullah Riyad on 9 when the umpires decided to call off play for the day. In the last session of day-4, 103 runs were scored for the loss of three wickets.

Indian player Ashwin achieved the milestone in his 45th match by taking the final wicket of the innings—Bangladesh skipper Mushfiqur Rahim.

Rahim had led Bangladesh’s resistance for nearly three sessions with his patient 127 before falling foul of 30-year-old Ashwin, who surpassed Australia paceman Dennis Lillee’s record. Lillee took 48 matches to reach the same mark.

Ninth-ranked Bangladesh are playing their first Test on Indian soil.

Bangladesh
Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Mominul Haque, Mahmudullah, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim (Captain, Wicketkeeper), Sabbir Rahman, Mehedi Hasan Miraz, Taijul Islam, Taskin Ahmed and Kamrul Islam Rabbi.

India
M Vijay, KL Rahul, CA Pujara, V Kohli (Captain), AM Rahane, WP Saha (Wicketkeeper), R Ashwin, RA Jadeja, B Kumar, UT Yadav and I Sharma.


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