Lyon takes 13th wicket, Bangladesh nine down

Sports Desk: Bangladesh lost nine wickets, after scoring 157 runs in 71.2 overs against Australia in the second test match at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium on Thursday.

Soumya Sarkar caught by Renshaw scoring 9 runs while Tamim Iqbal sent back to the green room by Lyon in12 runs of 38 balls. Lyon took the wicket of Imrul Kayes after scored 15 runs off 35 balls.

Sensational batsman Mushfiqur Rahim and Sabbir Rahman are on the crease scoring 15 off 43 balls and 19 run off 34 ball respectively.

Earlier, Australia scored 377 runs losing all the wickets and managed to earn a valuable 72-run lead on the fourth day.

Bangladesh's cutter master Mustafizur Rahman took four wickets while spin sensation Mehidy Hasan bagged three wickets.

The fourth day play of the second Test began at 9.30pm.

Scores in brief:
Bangladesh 305 & 81/5 (31.4 ov)
Australia 377

Bangladesh: 1 Tamim Iqbal, 2 Soumya Sarkar, 3 Imrul Kayes, 4 Mominul Haque, 5 Shakib Al Hasan, 6 Mushfiqur Rahim (capt & wk), 7 Sabbir Rahman, 8 Nasir Hossain, 9 Mehidy Hasan, 10 Taijul Islam, 11 Mustafizur Rahman.

Australia: 1 David Warner, 2 Matt Renshaw, 3 Steven Smith (capt), 4 Peter Handscomb, 5 Glenn Maxwell, 6 Hilton Cartwright, 7 Matthew Wade (wk), 8 Ashton Agar, 9 Steve O'Keefe, 10 Pat Cummins, 11 Nathan Lyon.




risingbd/Dhaka/Sep 7, 2017/Nasim/Mukul