Indian team dominated Day 3 of the 1st Test match as they bundled out the Bangladesh side for just 150 runs and set them a huge target of 513 runs with the help of brilliant hundreds from Shubman Gill and Cheteshwar Pujara. Initially, Kuldeep Yadav picked a five-wicket haul against the hosts and Axar Patel took the final wicket by dismissing Mehidy Hasan to wrap up their tail completely. Bangladesh started off their 4th innings cautiously without losing a wicket and managed to end their day at 42/0 in 12 overs.
Numbers and Stats from BAN vs IND 1st Test 3rd Day:
1 - Shubman Gill smashed his maiden century in Test cricket.
Indian openers to smash century vs Bangladesh in Tests:
Gautam Gambhir
Wasim Jaffer
Dinesh Karthik
Shikhar Dhawan
Murali Vijay
Mayank Agarwal
Shubman Gill
Highest Test score by an Indian batsman on Chattogram (Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium):
Gautam Gambhir - 116 in 2010
Shubman Gill - 110 in 2022
Sachin Tendulkar - 105* in 2010
Shubman Gill becomes 34th Indian opener to smash a century in Tests.
5/40 - Kuldeep Yadav has recorded his best bowling figure (5/40) in Test cricket.
Kuldeep Yadav's best bowling figure in Test cricket:
5/40 vs BAN in Chattogram, 2022
5/57 vs WI in Rajkot, 2018
5/99 vs AUS in Sydney, 2019
Best bowling figure by an Indian spinner vs Bangladesh in Test cricket:
Kuldeep Yadav - 5/40 in Chattogram, 2022
Ravi Ashwin - 5/87 in Fatullah, 2015
Sunil Joshi - 5/142 in Dhaka, 2000
6 - Cheteshwara Pujara has batted 6 innings against Bangladesh in Test cricket and he has smashed fifty-plus scores in all those six innings.
Pujara vs BAN in Test Cricket:
83(177) & 54*(58) in Hyderabad, 2017
54(72) in Indore, 2019
55(105) in Kolkata, 2019
90(203) & 102*(130) in Chattogram, 2022
51 - Cheteshwar Pujara batted 51 innings consecutively without a Test century until today.
Longest gap between two centuries for India (by inns batted) in Tests:
Syed Kirmani - 64
Ravi Ashwin - 55
MS Dhoni - 53
Cheteshwar Pujara - 51
130 - Cheteshwar Pujara smashed his fastest Test century from just 130 balls.
1443 - Cheteshwar Pujara smashed a century in Test cricket after 1443 days. Before today, his last century in Test cricket came against Australia in Sydney on 3rd Jan 2019.