India vs Bangladesh 2nd Test Day 5 Highlights: IND win by 7 wickets, record 2-0 series victory

India vs Bangladesh Live Score, 2nd Test Day 5: Shadman whips the last ball from Ashwin off the backfoot past deep square leg for a four. Bumrah follows and Shadman drives the fifth ball superbly for another four. A positive start from Bangladesh, Shadman is on 15 off 49, Mominul on two off five.

Bangladesh 36/2 in 13 overs

India vs Bangladesh Live Score, 2nd Test Day 5: Right here we go then for what promises to be an incredible day of Test cricket no matter what be the result. Ravichandran Ashwin starts India's attack, Mominul Haque on strike with Shadman Islam at the other end. Mominul is on nought off two, Shadman on seven off 40, Bangladesh are 26/2 and trailing by 26 as well.

India vs Bangladesh Live Score, 2nd Test Day 5: No matter what happens today, we are in for an absolute cracker of a Day 5. A win for India after 2 and a half washed out days and on a pitch that doesn't have too many demons in it would be just utterly incredible. At the same time, they are so far ahead now that Bangladesh would have to put up the resistance of their lifetime to save this Test. And if they manage a victory well that could be counted among the greatest miracles in the history of Test cricket. So anything would be extraordinary, whether it be a draw or a result. India's T20-style batting has resurrected a dead Test and made it something truly unique.

India vs Bangladesh Live Score, 2nd Test Day 5: They are trailing India by 26 runs with the hosts having declared with a lead of 52 runs. Bangladesh have to somehow bat two full sessions at least here to even stand a chance at saving this Test against this Indian side who are smelling blood.

India vs Bangladesh Live Score, 2nd Test Day 5: Murali Kartik and Athar Ali Khan say that this pitch could have some uneven bounce, balls could stay low. This is something we saw yesterday as well, with Yashasvi Jaiswal most prominently being dismissed by a delivery that stayed too low.

India vs Bangladesh Live Score, 2nd Test Day 5: KL Rahul smashed 68 in 43 balls yesterday. He tells the broadcasters that the message from captain Rohit Sharma was very clear. It can be summed up as: "Hulk, smash".

"Message was very clear. Most of the game was lost to weather but we wanted to see what we could do in the time that was left. We lost a couple of wickets but since the message was so clear from Rohit that it doesn't matter if we get out, we tried to do that," said Rahul.

India vs Bangladesh Live Score, 2nd Test Day 5: Whether India win it or not, what they did with the bat yesterday was something that has rarely ever been seen in the history of Test cricket. The fact that this happened is testimony to two things. The first is that India's dominance at home truly is something quite unique, considering the fact that they had the confidence to do something as bonkers as they did yesterday. The second is that this is a validation of sorts for the World Test Championship as India may not have the motivation to squeeze out a win like this had it not been for the fact that they know they need to make the most the home Test season to reach the WTC final.

India vs Bangladesh Live Score, 2nd Test Day 5: We are under half an hour away from the start of play and the players are warming up in the middle. India are the most dominant side at home in Test cricket for more than a decade by some distance but a win in this match looked beyond even their reach. For that, they would've had to do some video-game batting. Well, that is exactly what they went and did and still, there is a lot left to do. If India do pull this off today, it has to go down as one of the most astonishing feats in the history of Test cricket.

India vs Bangladesh Live Score, 2nd Test Day 5: … or not. We don't know that for sure yet. Shakib had said that his desire is to finish his career with a Test match against South Africa if they decide to tour Bangladesh. That tour is happening but now the question remains as to whether it will be safe for Shakib to play in Bangladesh. Shakib the cricketer may be an undisputed legend of Bangladesh cricket but Shakib the politician has not had the greatest of times, even having to stay away from his nation ever since the Awami League government amidst widespread turmoil.

India vs Bangladesh Live Score, 2nd Test Day 5: The part of the day that you may remember the most would be India's batting and so you might be surprised to hear that a whopping 18 wickets fell. But you can't be blamed because 437 runs were scored as well in 87 extraordinary overs.

India vs Bangladesh Live Score, 2nd Test Day 5: Kanpur's outfield troubles has reignited debate over whether India should restrict its Test venues to those that have good drainage systems. The weather was at the centre of everything but it has all cleared up now. We had more than a full day of play yesterday, with extended sessions and the extra half an hour in the end. We are going to have the same today as well.

India vs Bangladesh Live Score, 2nd Test Day 5: There were a couple of absolute screamers during Bangladesh's first innings yesterday and the first of those was from captain Rohit Sharma himself. Litton Das was looking dangerous but Rohit stuck his hand up for one of his attempted heaves and the ball just stuck. Here is an angle of his teammates analysing that catch in the seconds after it took place.

India vs Bangladesh Live Score, 2nd Test Day 5: No, the great man did not speak to the media after the day's play about the incident. He could be seen bouncing around in the slips cordon, as he does always, and his body movements made it pretty obvious that this was the topic of the conversation.

India vs Bangladesh Live Score, 2nd Test Day 5: Even Virat Kohli, who is known to be as patient as they come while batting in a Test match, went all guns blazing yesterday. The former Indian captain eventually ended with a score pf 47 off 35 balls, hitting four fours and a six. But there was a rather hilariously hairy moment early in his innings when he and Pant found themselves facing each other right in the middle of the pitch instead of completing their runs. The bowler Khaled Ahmed picked the ball up and Kohli had accepted his fate, even almost started to walk back to the pavilion. But Khaled somehow missed the stumps from a foot away. He didn't even need to throw the ball, he could've just flicked the bails away. If anything, that summed up the day for Bangladesh, especially with the ball.

India vs Bangladesh Live Score, 2nd Test Day 5: ...and this club includes Sachin Tendulkar and Umesh Yadav! Not too many cricketing stats where those two can be placed together. Add to that Rohit Sharma and the West Indies' Foffie Williams (Who once hit his his first six balls of a Test match for 6, 6, 4, 4, 4, 4) and you have what has to be the most rarest of rare bunchings in the sport. Rohit Sharma hit both of the first two balls he faced yesterday for sixes. That was just the fourth time a batter did so in a Test match after Williams (vs Jim Laker, England in Barbados 1948), Tendulkar (vs Nathan Lyon, Australia in Chennai 2013) and Umesh (vs George Linde, South Africa in Ranchi 2019).

India vs Bangladesh Live Score, 2nd Test Day 5: No team had a run rate of eight in a Test innings where they scored 100-plus runs before India on Monday. India finished with a run rate of 8.22 by the time they declared on 285/9 in 34.4 overs which is the highest in an innings of minimum 200 balls in men's Test cricket.

India vs Bangladesh Live Score, 2nd Test Day 5: The 50 they scored was not just the fastest that India have managed to get to that mark in Test cricket but in all internationals

India vs Bangladesh Live Score, 2nd Test Day 5: India got to the 100-run mark in just 10.1 overs yesterday. They thus went past their own world record for fastest century which was set just last year against the West Indies in Port of Spain. The one common factor in both was that Yashasvi Jaiswal was at the crease when the record was being set.

India vs Bangladesh Live Score, 2nd Test Day 5: Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal came out all guns blazing, with the Indian captain setting the tone by hitting his first runs with three sixes. The pair got India past 50 in 3 overs, the fastest any team has done so in the history of Test cricket. India then went on to break the record for fastest 100, 150, 200 and 250 in Test cricket, eventually declaring after blasting 285/9 in 34.4 overs. They maintained a run rate of 8.22 and this figure was over 10 for much of the first 20 overs.

India vs Bangladesh Live Score, 2nd Test Day 5: Who would've thought that we would see a day when the lowest strike rate in an Indian innings would belong to Rishabh Pant. He was pretty much the only batter in the top six who had a strike rate of less than 100. Among those outside the top six, Akash Deep had a strike rate of 240 having smashed 12 runs in five balls.

India vs Bangladesh Live Score, 2nd Test Day 5: Bangladesh are trailing India by 26 runs with eight wickets in hand. They are on 26/2 in 11 overs. Shadman Islam has scored seven runs in 40 balls, Mominul Haque had to walk out to bat just a couple of hours after he was celebrating his century in the first innings on the same day and he is yet to get off the mark after facing two deliveries.

How in the world did Bangladesh go from batting in their first innings at the start of Day 4 to trailing in their second innings at the start of Day 5? Well, that is the tea.

India vs Bangladesh Live Score, 2nd Test Day 5: India: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant(w), KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Akash Deep, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj

Bangladesh: Shadman Islam, Zakir Hasan, Najmul Hossain Shanto(c), Mominul Haque, Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib Al Hasan, Litton Das(w), Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Taijul Islam, Hasan Mahmud, Khaled Ahmed

India vs Bangladesh Live Score, 2nd Test Day 5: India are the most dominant side at home for more than a decade but what they did yesterday was extraordinary even by their standards. Can they pull off the win the are desperately seeking today? Stay tuned for more updates.