DHAKA: Bangladesh took a 128-run lead against the visiting England at stumps on day-2 in their second innings of the second test at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium Saturday (October 29).

Like the first innings, opening batsman Tamim Iqbal build up base making 40 runs before losing his wicket. Team-score was 65 then.

Later, Imrul Kayes and Mahmullah build a strong partnership scoring not out 59 and 47 runs respectively.

Mahmullah’s out due to his over-confident shot in the last ball of the day, however, disappointed Bangladesh fans.

Despite his wicket, according to espncricinfo.com commentary, Bangladesh are the side in charge with a lead of 128 and seven wickets in hand. Another hundred runs and will be very tough for England.

Overall, England’s bowling in that session was poor, but the intensity of Bangladesh’s batting was in no small part to play for that. Tamim, again, set the tone and it was carried through by Imrul Kayes.

The visitors earlier have scored 244-run losing all wickets in 81.3-over thanks to the dogged 99-run 9th wicket partnership between Chris Woakes (46) and Adil Rashid (44*).

Bangladesh, in their first innings, managed to score 220, though Tamim Iqbal earned 104 and Mominul Haque 66.

England won the first test against the host by 22 runs in Chittagong.

Bangladesh Team

Tamim Iqbal, Imrul Kayes, Mominul Haque, Mahmudullah, Mushfiqur Rahim*†, Shakib Al Hasan, Sabbir Rahman, Shuvagata Hom, Mehedi Hasan Miraz, Taijul Islam, Kamrul Islam Rabbi

England Team

AN Cook*, BM Duckett, JE Root, GS Ballance, BA Stokes, MM Ali, JM Bairstow†, ZS Ansari, CR Woakes, AU Rashid, ST Finn

BDST: 1850 HRS, OCT 29, 2016
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