DHAKA: Heavy rain forced the fourth day's play to be abandoned without a ball being bowled in the second Test between Bangladesh and South Africa at Mirpur on Sunday.

Earlier, the second and third days’ play at the Shere Bangla National Stadium have also been called off due to rain with the influence of cyclone Komen, which turned into land depression on Friday.

Bangladesh scored 246 runs losing eight wickets at stumps on Day-1 of the first inning after tiger captain Mushfiqur Rahim won the toss and elected to bat first in the match.

Mushfiq 65, Mominul 40, Mahmudullah 35, Shakib 35 helped Tigers to make the score in 88.1 overs as Steyn and Duminy bagged three wickets each.

Nasir Hossain will start batting with 13 runs if play resumes.

Steyn became the second South African to get to the landmark, after Shaun Pollock.

Joint second-fastest in terms of Test matches, alongside New Zealand’s Richard Hadlee and behind Muttiah Muralitharan from Sri Lanka, to the mark, and fastest in terms of balls.

The first Test ended in a draw in Chittagong last week after bad weather washed out play on the last two days.

Bangladesh Team

Tamim Iqbal, Imrul Kayes, Mominul Haque, Mahmudullah, Mushfiqur Rahim*†, Shakib Al Hasan, Nasir Hossain, Liton Das, Mohammad Shahid, Mustafizur Rahman, Jubair Hossain

South Africa Team

D Elgar, S van Zyl, F du Plessis, HM Amla*, T Bavuma, JP Duminy, DJ Vilas†, VD Philander, DW Steyn, SR Harmer, M Morkel

BDST: 1330 HRS, AUG 2, 2015
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** Rain delays start of 4th day