A topsy-turvy opening day in Sylhet was highlighted by the ‘keeper-batter’s superb rearguard hundred<\/p>\n
Bangladesh climbed off the canvas on day one of the second Test in Sylhet to hit back against Pakistan thanks to a fighting 126 from wicketkeeper Litton Das.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Leading 1-0 in the two-match series, the hosts slipped to 6-116 midway through day one after being sent in, before Litton’s sixth Test hundred took them to 278.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In reply, Pakistan made it to stumps without loss, reaching 0-21 after six overs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Earlier, their new-ball pair Mohammad Abbass and Khurram Shahzad had done the bulk of the damage, as a mini-collapse of 3-10 in the Bangladesh middle order looked to be turning the day’s proceedings in favour of the visitors, who for the first time are on a run of three consecutive defeats to their subcontinental rivals.<\/p>\n
But Litton’s fightback was an aggressive one. The right-hander hit 16 fours and two sixes and rattled along at a strike-rate of almost 80 to swing the momentum back the way of his side.<\/p>\n
Pakistan’s frustration would have doubtless been compounded by the news they had been fined 40 per cent of their match fee and penalised eight ICC World Test Championship points for maintaining a slow over-rate against in the first Test at Mirpur in Dhaka, which they lost by 104 runs.<\/p>\n
The penalty pushes Pakistan down to eighth on the WTC table, ahead of only West Indies, though they have played just three Tests in the window.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bangladesh meanwhile, sit in sixth spot, ahead of England.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A topsy-turvy opening day in Sylhet was highlighted by the ‘keeper-batter’s superb rearguard hundred Bangladesh climbed off the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":["post-676167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676167","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=676167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}