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India suffered early setbacks as captain Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, and Virat Kohli had been dismissed cheaply.
The first day of the inaugural Test match between India and Bangladesh commenced with the Najmul Shanto-led Bangla Tigers making vital inroads into the Indian top-order with constant breakthroughs. The morning session concluded with India at 88/3.
Following a choice to bat first on the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, India suffered early setbacks as captain Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, and Virat Kohli had been dismissed cheaply. The residence group discovered themselves struggling at 34-3, courtesy of Hasan Mahmud’s spectacular bowling show. However, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rishabh Pant managed to stabilize the Indian innings. Rohit and Kohli had been each dismissed for simply six runs every, whereas Gill fell for a duck after dealing with solely eight balls. Gill’s dismissal noticed him be part of Kohli in an unlucky statistic.
Notably, Shubman Gill achieved his third duck at residence in 2024, with two of them coming in opposition to England earlier in the 12 months. This locations him because the sixth Indian batter to have three or extra geese in a calendar 12 months whereas enjoying at residence.
Leading this unlucky list is former batter Mohinder Amarnath, who had 5 geese in 1983. Other notable gamers on this list embrace ex-captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi (1969), Dilip Vengsarkar (1979), Vinod Kambli (1994), and Virat Kohli (2021).
During the England residence sequence, Gill scored two geese as a part of Rohit Sharma & Co.’s 4-1 victory. He registered a duck in India’s unsuccessful 229-run chase in the primary Test in Hyderabad, and repeated the identical in the primary innings of the third Test in Rajkot. Despite these setbacks, Gill completed the sequence because the second-highest run-getter, accumulating 453 runs with two fifties and two centuries.
Looking forward, Gill will goal to make a powerful comeback in the remaining innings of the Bangladesh sequence.
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