India vs Bangladesh 2nd Test Day 2 highlights: Pant and Iyer help IND finish Day 2 with 80-run lead

Some salt and chilli masala on the wounds for Shakib. He crosses 3000 Test runs with that and becomes the second fastest to reach that mark and cross 400 Test wickets in the history of the game. Only behind the great Richard Hadlee of New Zealand. Ashwin comes down the track and launches Shakib over wide long-on. 

Big appeal from Bangladesh for LBW, Shakib himself is the bowler and he goes for the review right after the umpire shakes his head. Ashwin had taken a step down and looked to block it. No bat involved at all, the ball is crashing onto the stumps on ball tracking but the impact is umpire's call!

Unadkat swipes Shakib through square leg for his first boundary. India recognising the fact that Unadkat has scored over 8000 runs in first class cricket by sending him in ahead of Umesh or Siraj.

Appeal for LBW and given, Shakib strikes again and this time it is the big wicket of Shreyas Iyer. He falls for 87 off 105 balls, India 271/7. 

Low full toss from Taijul and Ashwin flicks it through midwicket for four. All class from the all-rounder.

Axar has been trying to hit sixes ever since he came into the middle. He ends up putting this straight down the throat of long-on. Just a little check from the third umpire to see if Shanto had stepped on the rope while completing the catch but it is declared to be a clean one. Axar falls for four, India 264/6, lead by 37 runs.

Sixth time in his career this has happened, as Sanjay Manjrekar pointed out a number of times in the commentary box before the actual dismissal itself. Every heard of the commentator's curse? Slightly full from Miraz, Pant pushes at it, gets an outside edge before the ball reaches Nurul. He falls for 93 off 104 balls, India 253/5, lead by 26 runs. Partnership between Pant and Iyer was on 159 off 182 balls when the wicket fell. 

Iyer hits a length delivery outside off from Miraz straight to mid-off. Slight fumble and Pant takes a few steps outside to attempt the run. The fielder recovers quickly and darts the ball in, not a direct hit but the bowler takes the stumps. Pant had put in the dive and made ground comfortably as the replays showed. That is the closest Bangladesh have come to a wicket in this session, which is an indicator of just how flat they have been. 

Bangladesh shoulders have dropped. Pant has got to 91 off 93, Shreyas is on 68 off 82. India lead by 14 runs at the moment. 

Iyer is on strike, he will be facing Taskin Ahmed. India one run away from levelling scores. 

KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara and Virat Kohli all tried to play some patient Test cricket and they all perished. Then Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer in the spirit of IPL auction day hit the Bazzballs out of Bangladesh and have put India firmly in the driver's seat. Wonder what that says about the right way to bat in present-day Test cricket. Pant is on 86 off 89, Iyer on 58 off 58, their partnership is 132 off 141 balls for the fifth wicket. 

Iyer hits his second six of the innings off the fifth ball of that over. India have gone at a ratr of 6.50 in the last 10 overs.

Khaled Ahmed brought back and bowls short to Iyer straightaway. The batter pulls three times, doesn't quite connect the third time but that is enough for him to take the single that gets him to his second half century of the series and fifth overall. It has come in 60 balls. 

Down the pitch again and smashed over long-on again, the bottom hand comes off as well. Pant moves to 84 off 82, Iyer is on 49 off 57, India are 215/4, trail by just 12 runs now. 

Among the flattest of sixes you will ever get to see in Test cricket. He comes down the track and smashes it through the line over cow-corner. 

India 202/4 in 57 overs, Pant moves to 78 off 81, Iyer on 42 off 52. Pant comes down the track again and this time whacks it over long-on. 

This stand has produced 102 runs off 106 balls now. Pant got to the pitch of the ball by coming down the track to Taijul and smashes him over wide mid-on.

Short from Taijul, a hit-me ball and hit it does Shreyas Iyer. Smacked over deep midwicket for four. Conditions seem to have got better for batting and the Bangladeshis look a bit crestfallen. Iyer then takes a single after defending the next ball for a dot to get to 40 off 44 balls. India at the end of that over are 190/4, trail by 37 runs. In the words of Michael Scott, “How the turn tables”

First two balls of the 53rd are quiet dot balls and then Pant skips down the track to Miraz and hits him towards long-on. He went against the spin here and could not get enough elevation, Mushfiqur is the fielder at long-on but he is a bit too far inside, tries to go for it one-handed after running back and only ends up parrying the ball over the ropes. He seems to be a bit winded after crashing to the ground.

Shakib bowling the 51st, Pant charges down the track for the third ball and sends it over the bowler's head for his second six. The carnage continues. 

These two have put up 66 runs off just 69 balls. Bangladesh can get back on top of they get a wicket here, they would prefer two of course. But at the moment, Pant and Iyer are pretty much running away with it. Another hour of this and India will take the lead and so Bangladesh need a wicket pronto.

India are 160/4 in 49 overs. Shakib bowled this one and Nurul Hassan missed a stumping off the second ball. Iyer then cuts Shakib behind point off the fourth ball for a boundary, then smashes it over mid-off for another four off the last ball. 

It has come in just 49 balls. The batters run two for Pant to get there and it seems he hadn't realised it. Belatedly raises his bat to acknowledge the cheers from the crowd and his dressing room. That is Pant's 11th Test half century. 

It took a while but it looks like Rishabh Pant fireworks have begun. He had gone down the track to Taijul first ball of the 48th and smashed the ball into the stumps at the non-striker's end. Then he brings out the slog sweep and hits a 102m monster. 

… and concedes a boundary off the first ball of the 47th over. Sent in at a length and spinning towards the leg side, Pant simply helps it along its way. He moves to 40 off 44. 

Just a perfect pair of shots from Pant. Khaled sends the fourth ball of the 45th full around off, Pant whips it past short midwicket. Khaled then changes to around the wicket, Pant stands outside his crease. The next ball is at a length outside off and angling in. It cramped the batter but Pant punches it behind point for another boundary. One run off the next ball and India are 136/4 in 45 overs, Pant on 35 off 39, Iyer on 20 off 22. Their partnership has raced to 42 off 45, easily India's best of the innings surpassing the Pujara-Kohli stand. 

That was a dramatic over. A couple of streaky shots from Iyer due to the extra bounce, an injury for Miraz after he put his body on the line to try and take a catch. The pitch is starting to talk for the pacers and Khaled Ahmed returns to further that conversation. 

And hurts himself in the process. More drama off the very next ball and Taskin is getting some purchase from the surface now. Extra bounce again from the pacer, this time it is closer to gully. Miraz is the fielder and he leaps to his left, gets to the ball but can't hold on to it in the air. He ends up slamming his face full on the ground upon landing and needs help from the physio. Miraz eventually walks off. 

Lucky for Iyer. Extra bounce from Taskin off the second ball of the 44th surprises Iyer and he somehow pushes it away, it flies between point and gully and goes to the boundary. 

Unlucky there for Bangladesh. Iyer works a full delivery from Miraz towards square leg. Batters take a quick single and Shanto gets a direct hit, the ball ends up dribbling away to the boundary. Brief check for run out but Pant was comfortably home.

India 112/4 in 42 overs, Iyer moves to 10 off 16, Pant is on 22 off 26. Taskin bowls the second last ball of the last over short and Iyer salps it throug midwicket. Then Taskin sends the last one into his body and Iyer swivels around to send the second one to the boundary. 

Pant is on 21 off 23 while Shreyas Iyer has got two in 13 balls. Bangladesh continue with Taskin Ahmed and Mehidy Hasan Miraz. There have been some lusty pulls from Pant but they have all found the fielder. Thus far, Pant is yet to hit a rather rash, uppish shot though. 

Edged and gone! Length ball in Kohli's corridor of uncertainty, he pokes at it, takes an outside edge and the keeper pouches it. Virat Kohli falls for 24 off 73 balls, India 94/4 in 37.4 overs, trail Bangladesh by 133 runs.  

Right then, Taijul Islam will bowl the 37th over, Pant is on strike. What can India get upto in this second session?

Shreyas Iyer, Axar Pate and Ravichandran Ashwin come next amomg the recognised batters, although it has to be said that Jaydev Unadkat can knock them around a bit as well. It is pretty clear that they need a big score from Kohli or Pant though.

Bangladesh lost just two wickets in the first session of Day 1 while India have lost three today. Virat Kohli is on 18 off 65 balls while Pant is on 12 off 14.

India were a hair-length away from 86/4 at the end of that over due to a mix-up between Pant and Kohli. Kohli was on strike and he had run halfway down the pitch when Pant sent him back. He dives and just about makes his ground, then gets back and looks back in mild fury at Pant. All smiles after that as he walks to the other end to have a chat with his partner in which time, the umpire knocks off the bails and calls for Lunch. Bangladesh may have a millimetre of their noses in front because of the three wickets but they know they have a mountain to climb if they are to get this Indian innings over with a lead, or with the visitors having a slender enough lead for them to capitalise on with the bat. 

Rishabh Pant is on nine runs off seven, having biffed a pull shot to deep midwicket off the first ball of the 34th over.

Third umpire says the fingers were completely under the ball and so Pujara has to go. Taijul Islam, what an impact he has made in this first session. Pujara falls after scoring 24 off 55 balls, Bangladesh 72/3 in 30.4 overs. Partnership between Pujara and Kohli lasted 93 balls and produced 34 runs.  

A sharp bat-pad catch and the question only seems to be whether Mominul had completed the catch or not. Soft signal is out. The Bangladeshis were cock-a-hoop, Pujara was in utter disbelief. Fullish from Taijul, it hits a thin inside edge, fielder takes it low.