Kohli, Rahane add to Bangladesh's misery


India piled on the distress on the second morning in Hyderabad to enter the lunch damage at 477 for 4. Bangladesh determined the going hard on Friday (February 10) after Virat Kohli (191*) and Ajinkya Rahane (eighty two) sent their bowlers on a leatherhunt to extend their facet's domination.

The duo took simply two overs for sighters inside the morning consultation earlier than unleashing an assault on a toothless bowling attack. The visitors had a peculiar ploy first up because the seamers stored bowling a shortish duration. It was fodder for each Kohli and Rahane as they feasted upon the bowling attack to attain at 5 an over within the first hour of play. Kohli started court cases via slashing Taskin Ahmed off back-to-lower back deliveries, one to the left of the deep point fielder and the subsequent one to his proper. however the shot of the morning got here in Taskin's following over while Kohli simply gently drove a complete length shipping immediately beyond the bowler.

Rahane changed into then presented a pleasant complete toss by way of Shakib Al Hasan and he used it to his advantage to attain his tenth half-century. the comfort on his face become palpable as he changed into under some pressure before this sport. Taskin then saved persisting with the short ball to Kohli and the Indian skipper duly obliged through as soon as pulling it in front of square after which guiding one over the gully place. He then stepped down the track to Shakib to hit him over the mid-off fielder which helped him go beyond Virender Sehwag's tally for the maximum quantity of runs in a single domestic season. The 150 then came off simply one hundred seventy balls and the visitors' shoulders had began losing at this factor.

Their first hazard of the day got here courtesy an extraordinary fielding attempt with the aid of Sabbir Rahman, who dived in the front to attempt a trap when Rahane did not preserve the ball down, but lamentably he couldn't keep onto it. The runs stored flowing because the 200-run partnership changed into raised between the 2. A boundary changed into hit nearly in each over earlier than the pitch slowly started taking flip. Kohli turned into almost bowled via a splendor from Taijul Islam and that became followed with the aid of a period of caution from each the batsmen.

Rahane changed into subsequently disregarded after he sliced one off Taijul which became pouched with the aid of a diving Mehedi to the left of cowl point. after which a couple of overs later, Kohli become crushed by using flip and became wrapped at the pads to which the finger went up. The skipper went for the evaluation after consulting Wriddhiman Saha and the selection proved to be right as the ball went past the leg stump. now not best were Bangladesh left disenchanted, they knew what became in keep for them with the pitch beginning to play tricks.

after which to rub salt on their wounds, Mushfiqur Rahim neglected the only of stumping probabilities to provide Saha an early reprieve while the wicketkeeper-batsman turned into on 4. The batsman neglected the ball absolutely after stepping down the song and Mushfiqur, who gathered the ball cleanly, failed to dislodge the bails in his first strive. That gave Saha time to get better and get lower back in time earlier than the Bangladesh captain may want to dislodge the bails well. That summed up their session as Kohli introduced two greater limitations to spherical off the session.

short ratings: India 477/4 (Virat Kohli 191*, Murali Vijay 108; Taijul Islam 2-seventy nine) vs Bangladesh.

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