India In Winning Position On the Fourth Day Of The Kanpur Test Against Bangladesh

• By Thetripurapost Desk, Kanpur
• Sep 30, 2024
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India has created a winning position by batting explosively on the fourth day of the Kanpur Test against Bangladesh. 

After restricting Bangladesh to 233 runs, India scored a fifty in 3 overs and a century in the 11th over. 

The team scored 285 runs in 34.4 overs and took a lead of 52 runs and declared its innings.

After the fastest 50 and 100 runs in Test history, India also made the record of 150, 200 and 250 runs.

 Ravindra Jadeja from the team also completed 300 Test wickets. Top records of the fourth day in Kanpur Test.

India scored the fastest 50, 100, 150, 200 and 250 runs. India started showing speed as soon as they started batting in their first innings. 

The team completed 50 runs in 3 overs and 100 runs in 10.1 overs. This was the fastest team fifty and century in the 147-year history of Test. Not only this, India also made the record of scoring the fastest 150, 200 and 250 runs.

Ravindra Jadeja took the last wicket in Bangladesh's innings, this was his first wicket in the innings. With this, he also crossed the mark of 300 wickets in Tests. He became the 7th Indian player to take 300 Test wickets. 

Not only this, Jadeja became the third left arm spinner in the world to take 300 wickets. Before him, only Sri Lanka's Rangana Herath and New Zealand's Daniel Vettori could do this.

Virat completed 27 thousand runs in the fastest Virat Kohli scored 47 runs in 35 balls in the first innings, with this he also completed 27 thousand runs in international cricket. 

For this he took 594 innings, he reached this milestone fastest. Before him Sachin Tendulkar had crossed the mark of 27 thousand international runs in 623 innings.

India's opener Yashasvi Jaiswal hit a fifty on 31 balls. He reached the third position among the fastest players to hit a fifty for India. 

Before him, Rishabh Pant has hit a fifty on 28 balls and Kapil Dev on 30 balls.

India declared its first innings in just 34.4 overs. This is the first time that India has declared its first innings in such a short number of overs. 

Earlier, in 2019, the team had declared its first innings in 89.4 overs against Bangladesh.

The special thing was that India did not play a single maiden over in its innings. 

This is the first time in the last 85 years that a team did not play a single maiden over in its first innings.

Team India has hit 96 Test sixes so far in 2024. This is the most Test sixes by any team in a year. 

Earlier, England had hit 89 sixes in 2022. India is also at number three in this record, the team had hit 87 sixes in 2021.

India's captain Rohit Sharma played his first ball in the second over of the innings. He hit 2 sixes on the first 2 balls against Hasan Mahmud. 

With this, he became the fourth player to hit 2 sixes on the first 2 balls of a Test innings. Before him, only West Indies' Foffee Williams, India's Sachin Tendulkar and Umesh Yadav could do this.

Team India has added excitement to the Kanpur Test which was heading towards a draw due to rain. 

On the fourth day of the match, India restricted Bangladesh's first innings to 233 runs. After this, batting in T-20 style, they scored 285 runs for 9 wickets in just 34.4 overs