Source:
Cricket NirvanaIndia has almost batted out
Bangladesh of the second test match with
Rahul Dravid and
Sachin Tendulkar displaying a great example of batting by hitting a ton each. The inexperienced Bangladeshi attack was hammared by the batting maestros as India scored a huge 459 for 5 in reply to Bangladeshi score of 233 in the first innings. At the end of day two India is leading by 226 runs after losing 5 wickets.
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Virendar Sehwag scored 56 while
Gautam Gambhir scored 68. Gambhir looked set for hitting his 6th consecutive test century but he gloved the ball behind the wickets. He extended his superior form with his 11th consecutive half century in Tests and equaled
Sir Vivian Richards in this record.
Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar shared a 222 runs partnership, their 17th 100 plus partnership which is a world record! Dravid found himself uncomfortable today against the short pitched bouncy deliveries. He was hit on the helmet while ducking a short ball from
Shahadat Hossain. The blow was hard and Dravid was retired hurt when he was batting on 111.
Bangladesh Cricket Board president
Mustafa Kamal, who visited Dravid at the hospital, confirmed that the Indian batsman has suffered two light fractures.
Sachin scored a brilliant 143 from 182 deliveries (his
45th test century). After the loss of Sachin's wicket, India lost the wicket of
Murali Vijay who scored an impressive 30 runs.
Harbhajan lost his wicket in the last over of the day while skipper
MS Dhoni was still on the crease at stumps.
Earlier today Bangladesh looked compact with Ashraful batting sensibly but Zaheer Khan's incredible bowling spell lead to a dramatic decline of Bangladeshi batting line up. He took 10 wickets in total in this match with 7 wickets for 87 runs in the second innings.
