Bangladesh inches away from being punished by ICC
Bangladesh are in danger of losing more points in their ICC world test points as they were found 10 over short of the 90 over target on day 1 even after a half-hour extension.
Bangladesh could only bowl 11 overs in the first hour of play which was dominated by their three seamers. And in the first session they only bowled 23 overs.
Even though they tried to improve their margin in the later session, they couldn’t quite make it there. And this poor rate was described as unacceptable by the commentators.
“Bangladesh’s overrate has been unacceptable. We’re 45 minutes into Tea and we’re not even through to 60 overs here. The best that Bangladesh can achieve at this rate is about 70-72 overs (at the end of the day) and that has to be unacceptable. Wonder when the umpires start playing a more active role here to get things moving,” said Harsha Bhogle in commentary.
Bangladesh had lost a few points already for slow over rate against Pakistan and if they continue the same they in danger of losing even more along the course of play.