Mahmud's three-wicket haul restricts India to 88/3 at lunch on Day 1
Mahmud's three-wicket haul restricts India to 88/3 at lunch on Day 1
CHENNAI: Pacer Hasan Mahmud tore through the Indian top order with a three-wicket haul as Bangladesh reduced the hosts to 88 for three at lunch on the opening day of the first Test of the two-match series here on Thursday.
Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal (37) and Rishabh Pant (33) were at the crease when lunch was taken, and they have so far added 54 runs for the fourth wicket, steering India to much calmer shores.
Once Bangladesh elected to bowl on a muggy Chennai morning, focus was entirely on express quick Nahid Rana, but it was the more honest Mahmud (3/14) who rattled India with a clinical spell.
