After Getting Out for 17, Kohli Keeps Grinding in Nets While Pant, Gill Smash Bangladesh Bowlers: WATCH

While Rishabh Pant and Shubman Gill hammered the Bangladesh bowlers in the morning session on day 3, the likes of Virat Kohli and Yashasvi Jaiswal kept on grinding in the nets. The India opener scored a half-century in the first innings but managed just 10 off 17 in the team’s second essay on Friday. Kohli, on the other hand, had an underwhelming return to Test cricket. The former India captain scored a run-a-ball 6 in the first innings and then amassed 17 runs in the second.

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The video of Kohli and Jaiswal surfaced on social media in which they could be seen sweating it in the nets during the lunch break on the third day of the ongoing Test against Bangladesh.

Once the game resumed after lunch and Pant notched up his 6^th Test hundred, Kohli was near the boundary line clapping for the young wicketkeeper-batter’s achievement.

Later, Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant smashed scintillating hundreds and India declared their second innings at 287/4 and set Bangladesh a mammoth target of 515 runs.

Gill, after bagging a duck in the first innings, led India’s charge with a fine 119 not out, laced with ten fours and four sixes. Pant, playing in his comeback Test match, made a superb 109 – where he took his time before unleashing his attacking shots in his knock laced with 13 fours and four sixes.

The duo shared an enterprising 167-run stand for the fourth wicket to demoralise the Bangladeshi bowlers. The main interest in the second session was always going to be about when India would declare its innings.

With his sixth Test century, Pant now has equalled MS Dhoni for the joint-most centuries hit by an Indian wicketkeeper-batter in the longer format. After hitting two quick boundaries, Pant fell in a bid to attack more as he hit straight back to Mehidy in a caught and bowled dismissal.

(With Agency Inputs)