India vs Bangladesh 1st Test, Day 3 Stats Review – Rishabh Pant equals MS Dhoni's Test record

Team India extended their dominance over Bangladesh in the first Test of the two-Test series at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, in Chennai. At the end of Day 3, the visitors needed 357 runs to win the Test while India are six wickets away from taking the lead in the series. 

Shubman Gill (119* off 176) and Rishabh Pant (109 off 128) continued from where they left off overnight to pile on more misery on the Bangladeshi bowlers. Both players completed their centuries before India declared setting Bangladesh a mammoth target of 515 runs. 

Openers Zakir Hasan (33 off 47) and Shadman Islam (35 off 68) of the visiting side came out with the intent to score runs briskly in some proactive batting. Jasprit Bumrah broke the proactive opening stand but Bangladesh's No. 3 and their captain Najmul Hossain Shanto (51 off 60) came out all guns blazing and putting the pressure on the Indian bowlers. Ravichandran Ashwin (3/63) bowled a marathon 15-over spell and put the brakes on Bangladesh by claiming three wickets although Shanto hit him for a few sixes.

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However, the last session came to end abrupt end as bad light forced the umpires to call stumps early. Currently, Bangladesh are 158/4 on the board and will hope to bat for as long as possible to have any outside chance of a miraculous win.

Here are the important numbers from the day:

6 - Rishabh Pant made his 6th Test hundred as a wicketkeeper-batter. Among Indians, he has now equalled MS Dhoni who also had six hundreds as a wicketkeeper in Tests for India. 

79.00 - Rishabh Pant's average while batting at No. 5 in Tests. Among all players with a minimum of 500 runs at the position, Pant's average is the second best behind Neil Harvey, who averaged 137.20 at No. 5.

51.00 -  Shubman Gill's average in the second innings following his unbeaten 119. Among Indian players with a minimum of 500 runs in the second innings, Gill's average is the second highest, behind Sunil Gavaskar's 51.46.

62 -  Zakir Hasan and Shadman Islam's opening stand of 62 is Bangladesh's best in India. The previous best was 38 between Soumya Sarkar and Tamim Iqbal at Hyderabad in 2017. 

3 - His innings is yet to end, but Najmul Hossain Shanto's 3 sixes are already the most by a Bangladeshi batter in a Test innings in India.