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Pink Ball Test: Bangladashed!

Indian pacers wreak havoc to scuttle out visitors for 106 runs inside 31 overs; hosts take 68-run lead through half centuries from skipper Virat Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara on Day One

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Bangladesh's Ebadat Hossain is clean bowled by Ishant Sharma on Day One of the pink-ball Test at Eden Gardens yesterday. Pic/AFP

Bangladesh's Ebadat Hossain is clean bowled by Ishant Sharma on Day One of the pink-ball Test at Eden Gardens yesterday. Pic/AFP

Kolkata: India have again taken early control as the historic Test at the Eden Gardens took to a predictable path. As in the first Test, Bangladesh found the pacers too hot to handle and folded up for a mere 106 an hour after lunch in under 31 overs.

Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma and Umesh Yadav shared the spoils. Sharma coming away with a fiver and Shami managing disconcerting pace and bounce. He hit two batsmen on the helmet and it brought the rare instance of both being substituted under the new 'concussion' rule. The only sign of spin was the one over from Ravindra Jadeja.

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