Chennai: Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant smashed brilliant centuries as India declared their second innings at 2874 after lunch on Saturday on the third day of the first Test at Chepauk, setting Bangladesh a mammoth target of 515 runs.
Earlier, Team India had scored 376 runs in the first innings. In reply, Bangladesh's team was reduced to just 149 runs. With a lead of 227 runs in the second innings, India took it to a big target of 515 runs.
Talking about the second innings of Team India, this time too Bangladesh team was successful in getting early wickets. But after getting out on zero in the first innings, Gill played a brilliant unbeaten innings of 119 runs in the second innings which included 10 fours and 4 sixes. While Rishabh Pant gave him full support and scored a century. During this, he played an innings of 109 runs hitting 13 fours and 4 sixes.
Both of them put the Bangladeshi bowlers on the backfoot by making a partnership of 167 runs for the fourth wicket. In the second session, everyone's focus was on when India would declare its innings.
Apart from these two, KL Rahul scored 22 not out, Virat Kohli scored 17, Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 10 and Rohit Sharma scored 5 runs. For Bangladesh, Mehdi Hasan Miraz took 2 wickets in the second innings. Nahid Rana and Taskin Ahmed got 1 wicket each.
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