Bangladesh are on the brink of completing a win over Ireland in the first of two Test matches between the sides as they retained control on day three in Sylhet.<\/p>\n
The hosts declared on 587-8 on Thursday, with Mahmudul Hasan Joy top-scoring for them in their first innings with 171 and captain Najmul Hossain Shanto also contributing a century.<\/p>\n
Having scored 286 in their first innings, Ireland struggled to 86-5 by the close of play on the third day to trail by 215 runs.<\/p>\n
Starting day three with a 52-run lead on 338-1, Bangladesh lost the wickets of Joy and Monimul Haque (82) early on Thursday to lie 346-3 but rallied to build up a first-innings lead of 301 before their declaration.<\/p>\n
Shanto’s ton was compiled off just 114 balls, including 14 fours, while Litton Kumer Das’s 60 also helped steady the ship for his side.<\/p>\n
Matthew Humphreys was the pick of the Irish bowlers as the slow left-armer ended with figures of 5-170.<\/p>\n
Ireland were immediately up against it with captain Andrew Balbirnie unable to open the batting after spraining a finger in the field. <\/p>\n
They lost Cade Carmichael, who replaced Balbirnie at the top of the order, for five to the bowling of Nahid Rana in the fourth over to sit 14-1.<\/p>\n
Paul Stirling (43) and Harry Tector (18) combined for a second-wicket partnership of 47 but the fall of Stirling to a run out precipitated an Irish collapse as three wickets fell in the space of five-and-a-half overs for just 17 runs.<\/p>\n
Tector was dismissed lbw by Taijul Islam, then Curtis Campher (5) and Lorcan Tucker (9) both fell to the bowling of Hasan Murad, who took 2-8 off his three overs.<\/p>\n
Andy McBrine (4) and Humphreys (0) were the unbeaten batsmen at the end of the day with Balbirnie expected to bat next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bangladesh are on the brink of completing a win over Ireland in the first of two Test matches…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-282812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}