2024-10-01 09:12:21
Muminul Haque stole the focus by blooming flowers on the green carpet of Greenpark. However, Muminul’s rhythmic batting was strained by the devastating batting of the Indian batsmen. At the end of the day, he has to bat again! Batting at a record run-rate in Tests, the elite version of cricket, India’s eyes are on victory, as if the red-green representatives are random.
Bangladesh collected 26 runs for 2 wickets in the second innings at the end of the fourth day on Monday (September 30) at Kanpur Greenpark Stadium. The visitors are 26 runs behind the lead of 52 runs given by India. Sadman Islam 7 and Muminul Haque are unbeaten on zero runs.
When Zakir Hasan returned for 10 runs, Hasan Mahmud, who came as night watchman, could not score more than 4 runs. Ashwin took both wickets.
India declared the innings when Akash Deep fell for India’s ninth wicket while hitting Mehdi Hasan Miraj for a six. India’s score was then 285 for 9 wickets. They scored this run in response to Bangladesh’s 233 in the first innings.
India scored this run in just 34.4 overs. 8.22 runs per over. Which is the record for most runs per over in Test history. Earlier, Australia scored 7.53 runs against Pakistan in Sydney.
Rohit Sharma-Yashshwi Jaiswal started with a partnership of 55 runs off just 24 balls. 50 runs come off 18 balls. 50 runs in 3 overs has happened for the first time in a Test. Rohit returned with 23 runs off 11 balls but Jaiswal stopped with a fifty. This young man has batted in a killing mood in T20 style. 72 runs from 51 balls came from his bat.
Almost all the batters who came after the wicket were marmukhi. Among the first 7 batters, Rishabh Pant-Rabindra Jadeja batted below 100 strike rate. Rohit’s strike was more than two hundred. Lokesh Rahul and Jaiswal’s strike rate was more than 150.
The strike rate of the Indian batsmen is the reason why the scoreboard swells in short overs. Rahul scored the second highest 68 runs off 43 balls. Apart from this, Shubman Gill scored 39 from 36 balls, Virat Kohli scored 47 from 35 balls and Rohit played 23 runs from 11 balls.
Rohit hit the maximum 3 sixes. Altogether there are 11 sixes. There was a flurry of records throughout the innings. India has scored the fastest fifty, fastest 100, fastest 150 and fastest 200 runs in Test cricket. Kohli also entered the 27,000 run club in international cricket as the fourth batsman in the world. But Kohli is the first in the feat of this run by playing the least number of innings!
Shakib and Miraj took the maximum four wickets for Bangladesh with the ball. Hasan Mahmud made an embarrassing record with 1 wicket with 66 runs in just 6 overs. Among bowlers who have conceded at least 50 runs, Hasan has conceded the most runs per over (11). Apart from this, Khaled Ahmed scored 43 runs in 4 overs and Taijul Islam scored 54 runs in 7 overs.
Earlier, Bangladesh started the fourth day with 107 runs for 3 wickets. Muminul started the day with 40 and Mushfiqur Rahim with 5 runs. Mushfiq returned after adding only 5 runs to the team scoreboard at the beginning of the day. 11 runs came from his bat. While Muminul was batting well at one end, the procession was going on at the other end. But in the end, this left-handed batsman took the 13th century of his career from unbeaten. Which is the highest of any batsman of Bangladesh in Test.
He scored a century off 172 balls. In the end, he remained unbeaten on 107 runs off 194 balls. He hit 17 fours and 1 six. Apart from this, Nazmul Hossain Shanto scored 31 runs, Sadman Islam scored 24 runs, Mehdi Hasan Miraj scored 20 runs and Liton Das scored 13 runs.
Jasprit Bumrah took maximum 3 wickets for India. Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammad Siraj and Akash Deep took 2 wickets each. Ravindra Jadeja took 1 wicket. He became the first left-arm spinner for India to reach the milestone of 300 wickets.