21.3 to Shadman Islam, leading edge for a low catch to short midwicket. Not quite how you envisage a wicket but Ashwin has worked hard in this spell and has built up to something. His first wicket of the match. This is short of a length, looks like an easy single, but Shadman is a touch early to close the face, gets the leading edge and Gill dives forward to take a safe catch. On replays, this actually is not shortl enough for the flick behind square on the leg side. 86/2
29.6 to Mominul Haque, what a beauty. Ashwin slows it down, gets some dip, it lands in front of off, turns past the edge, and hits top of off. Just enough turn to go past the edge but not enough to miss the stump. 124/3
33.4 to Mushfiqur Rahim, A superb catch by Rahul diving forward. He thinks he has caught it, the umpires have sent it upstairs to make sure. Tossed up outside off again, Mushfiqur dances down to take on Ashwin and miscues it towards the right of mid-off. It is dying on Rahul even as he gets around to his right and then low down. He has his fingers under the ball – multiple replays confirm the same and that is that for the veteran Bangladesh batter. Huge cheers as Ashwin picks up his third, dismissing Mushfiqur for the fifth time in Test cricket. 146/4
51.4 to Shakib Al Hasan, Bat-pad, Ashwin strikes in his first over of the day! This was what he was working towards yesterday as well, angle it in from around the wicket and use the bounce to his advantage. Shakib took a decent stride forward and tried to defend with a straight bat, which was close to pad. Ball hit high on the inside edge, brushed pad and went low to Jaiswal’s left, he takes it with a nice little somersault. Smart field placement too as Jaiswal’s was almost at backward short leg. 87.6ks but it looked slower to the eye. Lots of sidespin, lots of celebrations as Shakib’s vigil ends. 194/5
57.5 to Mehidy Hasan Miraz, A big ol’ yahoo from Mehidy and it allows Ashwin get a five-for to go along with a century. Ashwin’s all smiles, Gill’s even happier as he hugs him, jumps and ruffles his hair. Prithi, Ashwin’s wife, is happy in the crowd too. Ball was generously tossed up, 83ks, and a touch wide. Mehidy danced down and had a rotational swing, got it off the bottom and found long-on. 222/7
59.5 to Taskin Ahmed, House of cards is crumbling indeed, as Harsha Bhogle says. Seam pointing towards slip on this offbreak and Taskin, who was in for a good, short time, tried to club it over mid-on with a short back lift. Got it high and to Siraj at mid-on. 228/9
