India vs Bangladesh 2nd Test Day 1 Highlights: Rain forces early Stumps, BAN 107/3 in 35 overs

India vs Bangladesh Live Score 2nd Test, Day 1: Just nine overs were possible in the second session of the first day of the 2nd Test between India and Bangladesh in Kanpur. Bangladesh 107/3 in 35 overs. It was turning out to be a very interesting contest and let's hope we will see a result in this match as well, with more rains forecast on Days 2 and 3. Play will begin half an hour early tomorrow, rain permitting. Do join us then! For now, it is a very wet and gloomy goodbye from Kanpur

India vs Bangladesh Live Score 2nd Test, Day 1: As stated earlier, we are in for a looong wait. The rain has got heavier and it is a proper, proper downpour now, with more seemingly on the way as the sky takes that dark greyish look. This could be it as far as play in this session is concerned, there is the mammoth task of drying the wet patches in the field if and when this rain relents. No official word yet on this though.

Bangladesh 107/3 in 35 over

India vs Bangladesh Live Score 2nd Test, Day 1: With that wicket of Shanto, Ravichandran Ashwin has now dethroned Anil Kumble for most Test wickets taken by an Indian in Asia. This was Ashwin 420th wicket in a Test match played in Asia. The man leading the list is, no prizes for guessing, Muttiah Muralitharan (612).

India vs Bangladesh Live Score 2nd Test, Day 1: The forecast was right on the money. It was expected to rain between 2pm and 2.30pm and here are the showers. The covers are being brought on now. We could be in for a long haul. It has been a game of attrition so far and Bangladesh will be happy with how things have gone. The converse is not true though. India may not be in the strongest of positions but they know there is a long time to go and this is a home game. It takes more than a fairly good session to beat them in a Test match in India.

Bangladesh 107/3 in 35 overs

India vs Bangladesh Live Score 2nd Test, Day 1: Bumrah bowls his ninth over in the 35th over and now the umpires take out the light metre. The lights have been on in the stadium for a while now but it isn't good enough. The umpires are leading the players off the field. Bad light stops play.

Bangladesh 107/3 in 35 overs

India vs Bangladesh Live Score 2nd Test, Day 1: The former skipper is starting to look very good indeed. Akash Deep bangs the second ball of the 34th over in short, Mominul looks to duck it but then sees there is no pace and so ramps ot over the top of the slip cordon for a four. Big appeal for LBW off the fifth ball against him, the entire Indian team was up. The umpire shook his head and Rohit took the review. It pitched probably a centimetre outside leg and so India have just one review left. Mominul then rubs salt and chilli powder into India's wound by meeting the last ball, which is full outside off, with a beautiful push through mid-off for four. He is on 36 off 76, Mushfiqur on five off 12. Jasprit Bumrah replaces Ashwin for the 35th over now.

Bangladesh 102/3 in 34 overs

India vs Bangladesh Live Score 2nd Test, Day 1: Big appeal for LBW, chiefly led by Pant, off the third ball of the 33rd, the umpire says no and the bowler Ashwin himself hardly appealed for it. Mominul had gone down low trying to sweep him off that ball and Pant can then be heard saying that Ashwin can get him out LBW even if he hits his helmet. That's Pant's way of bringing to everyone's notice Mominul's low center of gravity, to put in a technical way. Mominul on 28 off 70, Mushfiqur on five off 12. Akash Deep continues for his fourth over of the spell.

Bangladesh 94/3 in 33 overs

India vs Bangladesh Live Score 2nd Test, Day 1: It is very dark and cloudy, quite humid as well. It does look like rains are just around the corner, there was a rain forecast around 2pm, remember. Both Ashwin and Akash Deep have bowled eight overs thus far and the latter now returns for his ninth in the 31st. Mushfiqur Rahim is the new man in, he has scored one run in six balls, Mominul on 20 off 64.

Bangladesh 82/3 in 31 overs

India vs Bangladesh Live Score 2nd Test, Day 1: Najmul Hossain Shanto plumb LBW and for some reason, he has reviewed that! If he hasn't got bat on it, he is as plumb as they come. If he did get a bat on it, Shubman Gill had caught the ball on the full as well and so it would be a catch This has to be among the worst reviews ever taken since this concept was introduced in international cricket. Ashwin gets the fifth ball of the 29th to come into the batter. Shanto plays for the turn, there was no bat on it, shows ultra edge. And as expected, the ball is crashing into middle stump. So Shanto is LBW, maybe he wanted to know for sure if he is out that way or if he was caught and decided that it is worth wasting an entire review for that instead of going to the dressing room and looking at the footage. A bizarre end to a very good stand.

Shanto lbw b Ashwin 31 (57)

Bangladesh 80/3 in 28.5 overs

India vs Bangladesh Live Score 2nd Test, Day 1: So far so good for the two Bangladesh batters. Akash Deep bowled the second over. He overstepped first ball and so that was a no ball. That was the only run from that over and then the stand reaches fifty with Shanto running two off the third ball of the next over by Ashwin.

Bangladesh 80/2 in 28.3 overs

India vs Bangladesh Live Score 2nd Test, Day 1: All right the grounds all dried up. Ashwin to start the bowling in the second session. Mominul on strike, he has scored 17 in 48, Shanto at the other end on 28 off 48. These two need to effectively start again and if they manage to play a good chunk of this session, Bangladesh can be in a very good place indeed.

Bangladesh 74/2 in 26 overs

India vs Bangladesh Live Score 2nd Test, Day 1: Not a big surprise really. It rained for more than half of that lunch break. The showers have stopped and the covers are off. The super soppers are doing their thing and understandably, they need more time.

India vs Bangladesh Live Score 2nd Test, Day 1: Among the many fears that came with Ajinkya Rahane effectively being dropped permanently from the Test squad was that there was projected to be a big hole in the slips. Rahane was a colossal presence in the cordon. But Jaiswal has shown in the last few Tests that he is a worthy successor there.

India vs Bangladesh Live Score 2nd Test, Day 1: Najmul Hossain Shanto finishes on 28 off 48, Mominul Haque on 17 off 48. They have put up 45 runs off 83 balls for the third wicket. A very handy partnership and something that Bangladesh were missing from their top order throughout that first Test. It will be a challenge for them t continue like this in the second session though but if they manage to somehow survive the first 45-odd minutes of it, India will have some reasons to worry.

Akash Deep finishes the session on 2/14 in six overs, clearly the standout bowler. It is drizzling quite steadily as the players walk off and the ground staff immediately bring in the covers. The pitch and some of the surrounding areas are being covered, not the areas behind the wickets though.

India vs Bangladesh Live Score 2nd Test, Day 1: Oh just a few minutes to go before lunch and it has started drizzling. Akash Deep to bowl the 26th and it looks like this drizzle might just make this the last over of the session. For now, they stay on. Bangladesh will be happy with the what Shanto and Mominul have done in this session. India probably would've liked one more wicket but they are far from being in any kind of trouble.

Bangladesh 73/2 in 25 overs

India vs Bangladesh Live Score 2nd Test, Day 1: Mominul ends the 23rd over with what has to be the shot of the session. Bumrah pitches it up, Mominul advances and drives handsomely through covers. Bumrah looks quite knackered at the end of that over. This session hasn't quite gone his way, apart from that hat-trick of maidens he started off with. The pitch seems to be easing up. Mominul and Shanto have done the hard work and now they are looking to score some runs. Mominul on 15 off 44, Shanto on 26 off 34.

Bangladesh 70/2 in 23 overs

India vs Bangladesh Live Score 2nd Test, Day 1: About 15 mins left for Lunch and now Ashwin joins Bumrah, replacing Siraj. Shanto hits a four off the fourth ball of the 22nd in that over from the spinner, a brilliant reverse sweep through forward point for a four. Shanto on 26 off 34, Mominul on 11 off 38.

Bangladesh 66/2 in 22 overs

India vs Bangladesh Live Score 2nd Test, Day 1: Huge appeals off the fifth ball of that over, although Bumrah shouted almost like it was an afterthought. Umpire shakes his head, Rohit takes the review. Length ball around off, nipping back in. Mominul goes on the backfoot but is beaten by the inward movement. It hits his back pad and the wicketkeeper and slips went up in appeal. Ball tracking holds up the umpire's call. Mominul on 10 off 36, Shanto on 17 off 18.

Bangladesh 56/2 in 19 overs

India vs Bangladesh Live Score 2nd Test, Day 1: Akash Deep's spell ends at five overs and Bumrah returns for the 19th. There is bright sunshine on the ground now which is quite nice to see. Rain has been forecast for around 2.30pm IST, let's hope this sunshine means that prediction is about to go wrong. Mominul on 10 off 31, Shanto on 16 off 17.

Bangladesh 55/2 in 18 overs

India vs Bangladesh Live Score 2nd Test, Day 1: Mominul makes the most of a rare error from Akash Deep. He goes short and wide third ball of the 17th over and Mominul lifts that off side over the infield to the boundary. He moves to five off 24 with that shot.

Bangladesh 50/2 in 16.3 overs

India vs Bangladesh Live Score 2nd Test, Day 1: Relentless line and length from Akash Deep. He sticks to that good length area throughout the 15th over and beats Mominul three times. Mominul is on one off two, Shanto on 12 off nine. Akash Deep has figures of 2/8 in four overs

Bangladesh 42/2 in 15 overs

India vs Bangladesh Live Score 2nd Test, Day 1: Celebrappeal from Siraj fourth ball of the 14th! The umpire shakes his head and interestingly, it's Pant who is more convinced than the bowler that this should be reviewed. Rohit does the honours and the ball is pitching outside leg. That's a review lost for India. No runs after that in that over and Shanto had sent the ball between slips and gully for a four off the third ball. He is on eight off five, Mominul on 1 off 16. Akash Deep continues from the other end.

Bangladesh 42/2 in 14 overs

India vs Bangladesh Live Score 2nd Test, Day 1: A brilliant start for India, capped off by Akash Deep taking two wickets. Shanto managed to get two fours in that over though and he is on eight off five. His former captain Mominul yet to get off the mark after five balls. These are two are among Bangladesh's best Test batters and the visitors need them to hunker down and how.

Bangladesh 37/2 in 13 overs

India vs Bangladesh Live Score 2nd Test, Day 1: Oh it was almost the bowler alone asking Rohit to take DRS, Pant seemed unconvinced but the Indian captain signals for DRS, almost as if he was humoring Deep. As it turns out, Deep was right! Three reds and Shadman has to go! Bangladesh captain Shanto walks in now. It was a length ball that came in with the angle, Shadman misses on the flick and the Indians appeal. Akash Deep was especially loud. The reaction of the Indian players after the big screen shows three reds indicates that most of them thought it would be given as umpire's call.

Shadman Islam lbw b Akash Deep 24 (36)

Bangladesh 29/2 in 12.1 overs

India vs Bangladesh Live Score 2nd Test, Day 1: Ashwin tosses up the first two balls of the 12th. Mominul looks to sweep the fourth which is a length ball outside off and turns square, the batter is beaten. Ashwin just chipping away on the patience of the batters. Now Akash Deep returns for his third over.

Bangladesh 29/1 in 12 overs