India vs Bangladesh Chepauk Test: After a strong start, Najmul Hossain Shanto’s side pay the price for poor batting in first innings

Looking back, Bangladesh would cognize this Test wasn’t mislaid successful the 2nd innings. It happened with the shot successful the 2nd and 3rd sessions connected Day 1 erstwhile their seamers and spinners mislaid the crippled with R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja pulling disconnected a rescue act. On a damp pitch, erstwhile the shot got old, without reverse plaything connected offer, their enactment of onslaught was predictable. Ashwin and Jadeja were hardly troubled.

India’s Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja during the archetypal time of the archetypal trial cricket lucifer betwixt India and Bangladesh, astatine the MA Chidambaram Stadium, successful Chennai, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (PTI Photo)

And connected Day 2, presented with the champion batting conditions, they needed to amusement the patience levels they showed successful Pakistan. In blistery conditions, with nary assistance for spinners, India were ne'er going to springiness a spell much than 4 overs for their pacers. It needed 1 of their top-order batsmen to grind India’s attack. But with India’s gait battalion being relentless, they surrendered meekly.

“We didn’t bat good successful the archetypal innings”, Shanto said aft the 280-run defeat. “It was a precise important signifier of the game. We could person been successful a amended presumption if we had astatine slightest 1 large top-order partnership. There volition ever beryllium a situation for the apical bid to bash well, particularly successful the archetypal innings. It is important to spot however we are coping with it. We are moving towards it but we are not getting the desired results,” helium added.

The frustrating portion for Bangladesh is that successful the 2nd innings, they showed it isn’t beyond them. Their openers gave them a dependable commencement which frustrated India’s caller shot bowlers. Shanto’s sound didn’t ringing alarm bells successful the host’s camp, but it made them toil hard. India’s spinners person struggled erstwhile coming crossed batsmen who could expanse them from wrong the enactment of the stumps. And arsenic Shanto brought retired his sweeps and reverse-sweeps, Ashwin and Jadeja had to look for Plan B.

Though the show of their onslaught was comparatively better, close done the Test determination were questions implicit Shakib Al Hasan’s fitness. After playing a County fixture for Surrey, the all-rounder had joined the squad successful Chennai lone precocious Tuesday nighttime and had conscionable 1 time to get acclimatised to the conditions. In a Test wherever helium ended up having his astir costly figures (8-0-50-0 & 13-0-79-0), Shakib’s fittingness was a large talking point.

On air, erstwhile Shakib didn’t vessel for a large portion of the greeting league connected Day 3, Murali Kartik said the all-rounder had informed him astir a discomfort connected his scale finger. However, Bangladesh’s batting manager David Hemp claimed they were unaware of it. Having taken the tract with 3 pacers, a batch was riding connected their 2 all-rounders Shakib and Mehidy Hasan Miraz, but some struggled to vessel with the SG-ball. Their gait attack, which is bladed connected experience, couldn’t find reverse-swing which meant it was each excessively casual for India’s batsmen to find runs erstwhile the shot got soft.

Despite the dense loss, heading to Kanpur, Bangladesh person reasons to consciousness optimistic. Thanks to the achromatic ungraded content, the Green Park transportation has been among the slower ones successful India. With debased bounce besides connected offer, Bangladesh would consciousness the conditions are akin to what they find backmost location successful Mirpur. But the question is, having opted for a seamer-friendly aboveground successful Chennai, whether India would bash the aforesaid successful Kanpur.