After losing the opening Test by 188 runs in Chattogram last week, Bangladesh didn’t learn from their mistakes and are now on the verge of losing the second Test as well against India. The visitors need only 100 more runs to win the game and seal the two-match series by a margin of 2-0. They have six wickets in hand, and the first-innings stars, Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer, are yet to arrive. Except for former Test captain Mominul Haque (84 in the first innings) and Litton Das (73 in the second innings) in the ongoing second Test, others have failed to impress.
Their captain and star all-rounder, Shakib Al Hasan, who made 84 runs in the second innings of the first Test, failed to build on that performance and got out for 16 and 13 in the two innings of the second game. His poor show in the second game didn’t went down well with former Indian skipper and legendary opening batter Sunil Gavaskar, who criticised him for the manner of his dismissal.
Speaking on Sony Sports, Gavaskar asked former Bangladeshi skipper Athar Ali Khan about Shakib’s age and said that he should get his eyes checked as the deliveries on which he got out in both the innings were not driveable balls.
What is Shakib’s age? Maybe he should get his eyes checked. He is a very good batsman, but twice he has got out in that manner. I don’t mean any disrespect, please don’t misunderstand me. I think it might me an idea. Those were not driveable balls. Those weren’t even slower deliveries, they were proper pacing deliveries.”
In the first innings, he decided to play an aerial shot on a pitched-up delivery by Umesh Yadav and was comfortably caught by Cheteshwar Pujara at mid-off, and then in the second innings, he chipped the length ball from Jaydev Unadkat straight to Shubman Gill at cover.
