All-rounder Ravindra Jadeja of India is on the verge of attaining a great milestone in Test matches. This makes the star player very likely to be at the pinnacle in a list also featuring two Indian legends – Kapil Dev, and Ravichandran Ashwin. Jadeja needs only one more wicket to add up to 300 in his Test wicket record. Should he cause this to happen during India’s Kanpur Test against Bangladesh, he will be the fastest among them to both score 3000 runs and take 300 Test wickets. Overall, Jadeja will be at the second position with Ian Botham who had accomplished the milestone in 72 Test matches seating at the highest position. The ongoing second Test against Bangladesh will be the 73rd for Jadeja in this format of the game.
Due to low light and then rain, play was suspended prior to tea on the first day of the second Test against Bangladesh and India in Kanpur. The visitors were on 107-3 after a play on Friday and No more plays were possible over the following two days.
Mominul Haque was on 40 and Mushfiqur Rahim was on six, who were batting when thick clouds darkened vision and the umpires asked the players to come off the field after lunch.
This match might be the last Test match for the former Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan after the days when he declared of his retirement from international cricket on Thursday.
The lights went low, then the rain fell heavily and the umpires made a decision to stop the match as the sheets were spread, with further rainfall predicted in the city on Saturday.
India who leads the two match series by one nil decided to field first in cloudy conditions with the fast bowler Akash Deep justifying captain Rohit Sharma’s call in the first hour with two wickets.
He got rid of the left-handed openers Zakir Hasan, who was out for a golden duck, and Shadman Islam, LBW for 24 runs, with his seamers to the left-hand batting pair.
Endorsing a reasonable target, Captain Najmul Hossain Shanto scored 31 and added 51 runs with Mominul to see off the rest of the first session, but first-match star Ravichandran Ashwin ended that partnership soon after the break.
Having scored a century and gleamed six wickets in the first match, off-spinner Ashwin, now in line to bowl the left-handed batsman Najmul Shanto, turned one around his legs to beat him lbw.
Bangladesh has also retained similar playing XI with three seamers who have consistently proved a menace against the batters whilst a number of balls have gone past the bat.
Bangladesh’s ex-captain Shakib, 37, announced his retirement from international cricket on Thursday so this could be his last Test match especially if he does not return back for the next series that is lined up against South Africa.
Shakib is a member of the party of the sacked prime minister Sheikh Hasina and has been in self-imposed exile from Bangladesh because of threats of criminal charges that were made to him and many of her former political associates
