Tigers six down

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Bangla Tribune Desk
Published : 13:17, Nov 22, 2019 | Updated : 15:46, Nov 22, 2019

Mohammad Shami removed Mushfiqur dismantling his stumps off a wonderful delivery. BCCI.The tigers suffered batting collapse at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata as they lost six wickets just in 60 runs in their first day-night Test against India on Nov 22.

The Bangladeshi top-order batsmen failed to prove their mettle against pink balls as they lost four wickets in only 26 runs.

Skipper Mominul Haque, Mohammad Mithun and Mushfiqur Rahim suffered a duck each. The experienced opener, Imrul Kayes, scored only 4 runs. 

Team India's Ishant Sharma took the first wicket removing Imrul for lbw. Right after that, Umesh Yadav sent Mominul and Mithun back to the dressing room in the 11th over.

Mohammad Shami removed Mushfiqur dismantling his stumps off a wonderful delivery.

Before leading up to this game, Bangladesh suffered a big defeat in the first game in Indore by an innings and 130 runs.

Mominul Hauqe and Virat Kohli doing toss in Kolkata Test on Nov 22. BCCI.Earlier, Bangladesh skipper Mominul Haque wins the toss and elects to bat against Virat Kohli led India at Eden Gardens on Friday (Nov 22).

Players from both sides met Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and India's eastern state West Bengal's Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

Indian Premier Narendra Modi has formally invited Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to attend the historic day-night Test match, reports BSS.

After long resisting the latest innovation in Test cricket, touring Bangladesh and hosts India finally joins the party that is aimed at increasing crowds and TV audiences for the longest format of the game.

Earlier, President of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Sourav Ganguly invited Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to watch the second Test match in Kolkata.

Day-night Tests were successfully introduced in 2015 but it took two neighbouring nations four years to take the pink ball plunge.

So far, 11 day-night Tests have been played worldwide since Australia and New Zealand played the first-ever pink-ball Test at the Adelaide Oval in Nov 2015.

Two changes for Bangladesh: Al-Amin and Nayeem in, Taijul, Mehidy out while India got into the match with an unchanged playing XI that won the last Test in Indore.

Bangladesh: Shadman Islam, Imrul Kayes, Mominul Haque (capt), Mohammad Mithun, Mushfiqur Rahim, Mahmudullah, Liton Das (wk), Nayeem Hasan, Abu Jayed, Al-Amin Hossain, Ebadat Hossain.

India: Mayank Agarwal, Rohit Sharma, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli (capt), Ajinkya Rahane, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Wriddhiman Saha, Ishant Shama, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami.

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