Cheteshwar Pujara<\/a> and Iyer led India’s remarkable fightback with their 149-run partnership for the fourth wicket as the visitors ended the day at 278\/6.
Pujara (90) missed out on a century but Iyer remained on course for his hundred as he was unbeaten on 82.
Rishabh Pant’s counterattacking 45-ball 46 helped India stabilise the innings following early blows.
Axar Patel (14) was dismissed on the final ball of the day.
For Bangladesh, Taijul Islam (3\/84) made the most impact with three wickets for 81 runs, while Khaled Ahmed (1\/26) and Mehidy Hasan Miraz (2\/71) were also among wickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI: The first day of the first Test between India and Bangladesh probably witnessed the rarest of the rare incident when\u00a0Shreyas Iyer\u00a0remained intact on the crease despite being bowled by\u00a0Ebadot Hossain’s delivery.In order to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3045,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions\/3045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}