Bangladesh struggling toavoid innings defeat

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Bangladesh is struggling to avoid innings defeat against visiting Pakistan in the first Test of the Cool & Cool two-match Test series at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in the city Sunday, reports UNB. The hosts started their second innings on the third day (Sunday) afternoon and scored 134 for 4 in 39 overs at stumps and they will need 326 more runs to skip innings defeat with two more days to go. Bangladesh lost the wickets of opener Tamim Iqbal (15), Shariar Nafees (28), Mohammad Ashraful (0) and Nasir Hossain (3) as the team's total stuck at 80 runs. Debutant opener Nazimuddin and all rounder Shakib Al Hasan were batting on both 41 runs as the bails were drawn for the day. Abdur Rehman Saeed Ajman, Mohammad Hafeez and Aizaz Cheeman took one wicket each conceding 15, 17, 21 and 40 runs respectively. Bangladesh's defeat is now a matter of time as the batsmen stretched their irresponsible batting in the second innings after their batting debacle in the first innings of 135 for all. The bowlers were also equally responsible for the hosts' miserable condition as they failed to dominate over any Pakistani batsman on the day, although the wicket was quite favorable for the bowlers after second day. Spinner Elias Sunny was able to take the wicket of night watch Asad Shafiq on the day's play which made the Bangladesh skipper Mushfiqur Rahim embarrassed. Earlier, resuming the third day with overnight 415 for 4, Pakistan riding on night watch batsman Younus Khan's (96) unbeaten double tons, declared their first innings at 594 for 5 in 176.5 overs. The right handed batsman, during his exact 200 runs, cracked 18 fours and three sixes off 290-ball knock while another night watch batsman Asad Shafiq hit his maiden Test ton, scored 104 runs off 235 balls with nine fours and two sixes.