IND vs BAN 1st Test: India beat Bangladesh on the basis of these players, won the first test
The first match of the two-match Test series between India and Bangladesh was played in Chattogram. In this match, India defeated Bangladesh by 188 runs. India got this victory on the fifth day of the match. In the first hour of the fifth day, India won the match. KL Rahul was the captain of the team in the absence of Rohit Sharma for this match. This was KL Rahul’s first Test win as captain. With this win, the Indian team has gone ahead 1-0 in the series. Many good things emerged for Team India in this match. Kuldeep Yadav was adjudged player of the match for India’s superb bowling as well as some good shots with the bat.
Talking about the match, at the start of the fifth day, Bangladesh needed 241 runs to win. At the same time, India was four wickets away from its victory. On the fifth day, Shakib Al Hasan and Mehdi Hasan Miraj landed at the crease as Bangladesh’s hope, but both could not do anything special for the team. Although Shakib hit some good shots during the match, but failed to take the team to victory. Mehdi Hasan scored 13 runs off 48 balls. Mehdi was dismissed by Siraj. After that, becoming the last hope of the team, Shakib standing at the crease started batting aggressively. For a moment it seemed that Shakib was taking the match away from India. Seeing Shakib’s batting, captain KL Rahul handed the ball to Kuldeep. Kuldeep cleverly took the wicket of Shakib and put Bangladesh completely on the backfoot. After this none of the Bangladesh players could survive and India won the match.
These players got color
A total of five players had an important contribution in this victory of India. These include the names of Kuldeep Yadav, Shreyas Iyer, Cheteshwar Pujara, Shubman Gill and Akshar Patel. These five played an important role in India’s victory. India won the toss and decided to bat in this match. Batting first, India’s start was not very special and India lost three consecutive wickets in the match. From there, Shreyas Iyer scored 86 and Cheteshwar Pujara handled India’s innings by playing 90 runs.
Apart from the first innings, Cheteshwar Pujara batted brilliantly in the second innings as well and scored a century. Pujara scored 102 off 130 balls. Apart from Pujara, Shubman Gill also scored a century. Gill scored 110 off 152 balls. On the basis of this innings of both, India gave a target of 513 runs to Bangladesh.
Apart from batsmen, Kuldeep Yadav and Akshar Patel played a great game in bowling. After almost 2 years, Kuldeep returned to the Test team and answered everyone with his performance. Kuldeep took a total of 8 wickets in both the innings and also scored 40 runs with the bat. Apart from Kuldeep, Akshar Patel also impressed with his bowling. Akshar may not have got a wicket in the first innings, but he took four important wickets in the second innings and contributed to the team’s victory. Now the next match between India and Bangladesh will be played at Sher-e-Bangla Stadium in Dhaka from 22 December. India would like to win this match in its name. Team captain Rohit Sharma is also returning in this match.
