Bangladesh’s plan was to increase the lead as long as possible on a difficult wicket. But on the morning of the fourth day, the condition of the host batters was quite shaky. Nazmul Hossain Shanter’s team is in trouble after losing wickets one after the other to Ejaz Patel and Mitchell Santner.
Bangladesh lost 3 wickets in the first hour of the fourth day at Mirpur Sher Bangla Cricket Stadium on Saturday. Another one fell after the first hour’s water break. Muminul Haque, Mushfiqur Rahim, Shahadat Hossain Dipu, Mehdi Hasan Miraj, Nurul Hasan Sohan have gone back one by one. At the end of 25 overs, the hosts are 97 runs for 7 wickets, leading by 89 runs till this report is written.
Muminul and Zakir continued to play shakily with 38 runs for 2 wickets. Muminul looked more upset. After some initial time, Muminul did not last. He was lbw while playing the ball inside Ejaz across. Experienced Mushfiqur Rahim came and survived only 12 balls. He took a slip caught by Mitchell Santner.
Young Shahadat Hossain was also victimized by Santner. Straight away he is also LBW. Bangladesh lost 5 wickets for 88 runs.
After a while, Miraj also departed. Ejaz could not take the full bat while flying the ball in a slog sweep. Top edged and caught. Santner took a catch from mid on. Keeper Batter Nurul Hasan Sohan questioned his place again with a spectacular out. After Ejaz saved one ball with a review, he could not play a scoop shot in the next ball, got defeated and put it on his leg and wasted it with a review. His runs were 29, 10, 7 and 10 in four innings in this Test series. Every game in the series he felt shaky.
