Welcome to the coverage of Day 2 of the first Test between India and Bangladesh in Chennai on Friday.
India will be aiming to continue the momentum on Day 2 and keep the runs coming in the morning session as they target a total of around 400.
Ravichandran Ashwin smashed a rapid hundred and combined with Ravindra Jadeja in an epic rearguard action as the hosts overcome a top order meltdown to reach 339/6 on the opening day.
Bangladesh seamer Hasan Mahmud's three-wicket burst in the morning session had India reeling at 34/3 inside the opening hour at the M A.Chidambaram Stadium.
Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal made 56 but it was the marathon 195-run unbroken stand for the seventh wicket between Ashwin and Jadeja that helped India claw their way back into the contest.
Ashwin's unbeaten 102 off 112 balls, his sixth Test hundred and second in a row at his home ground, included 10 fours and two sixes. Jadeja, was unbeaten on 86, as he looked in course for his fifth Test hundred.
Bangladesh dominated the first two sessions after captain Najmul Hossain Shanto elected to field.
India skipper Rohit Sharma (six) needed 11 balls to get off the mark and survived a vociferous lbw appeal before edging Hasan to Shanto at second slip, In his next over, Hasan had Shubman Gill caught behind for a duck tickling the ball down the leg side.
Virat Kohli also fell to a soft dismissal, driving away from his body to be caught behind for six off the same bowler.
Rishabh Pant (39), playing his first Test since a horrific car crash in December 2022, cut and pulled fearlessly and scored briskly to turn the heat back on the bowlers.
Hasan broke the 62-run stand soon after the lunch break when Pant's lazy waft to a delivery wide outside the off-stump led to another soft dismissal.
Nahid Rana ended Jaiswal's fluent knock and spinner Mehidy Hasan Miraz removed K L Rahul before Ashwin combined with Jadeja to launch a spectacular counter-attack.