Bangladesh totter at 117 for 6

Bangladesh's pathetic run continued as they slumped to 117 for six in the first innings against Central Zone on the second day of the Duleep Trophy cricket match in Delhi on Wednesday.

Central Zone, who were earlier bowled out for 351 in the first essay, piled on the humiliation on the visitors, who suffered yet another batting collapse on their debut season in India's domestic competition.

Bangladesh, playing with almost their full national team, failed to reach even 200 in both the innings of their opening match against East Zone last week, which they lost by an innings in Nagpur.

The visiting batsmen apparently learnt nothing from their earlier outing as they failed to apply themselves on a pitch that was described as "flat" by their coach, Dave Whatmore just a day back.

Bangladesh had a shocking start to their innings when the openers were back in pavilion by the second over itself with the side yet to open its account.

Al Shahriar fell in the last ball of the first over, bowled by Harbinder Singh when his edge was brilliantly taken in the third slip by Amit Pagnis.

A ball later, Nafees Iqbal followed his partner back to the dressing room after being trapped leg before by Salabh Srivatsava.

Aftab Ahmed (18) and captain Mohammed Ashraful (30) tried to stem the rot by adding 52 runs for the third wicket before Central skipper J P Yadav (3-29) removed the duo and then the next batsman Alok Kapali to put the pressure back Bangladesh.

Scorecard

Central Zone (1st innings):
S Bangar lbw Jubair 11
A Pagnis lbw Anwar Hussain 12
D Bundela b Anwar Hussain 83
Abbas Ali c Razzaq b Kapali 122
J P Yadav c Rana b Jubair 10
Numan Ojha run out 25
Nikhil Doru not out 20
M Karthik c Al Shahriar b Jubair 33
H Singh c Saghir Hossain b Anwar 4
K Parida lbw Anwar Hussain 0
S Srivastava c Saghir Hossain b Jubair 3

Extras: (b-12, lb-7, nb-4, w-5) 28

Total: (all out in 129.3 overs) 351

Fall of wickets: 1-16, 2-24, 3-238, 4-248, 5-262, 6-273, 7-323, 8-332, 9-332.

Bowling: Nazmul Hussain 9-3-25-0, Anwar Hussain 26-10-58-4, Talha Jubair 35.3-4-122-4, Abdur Razzaq 22-7-53-0, Manjural Rana 21-6-52-0, Alok Kapali 10-5-14-1, Aftab Ahmed 6-3-8-0.

Bangladesh XI (1st innings):
Al Shahriar c Pagnis b Harvinder 0
Nafees Iqbal lbw Srivastava 0
Aftab Ahmed c Ali b Yadav 18
M Ashraful c Ali b Yadav 30
Alok Kapali lbw Yadav 12
M Islam Rana batting 32
S Hossain st Ojha b Karthik 16
A Razzaq batting 4

Extras: (b-4, nb-1) 5

Total: (for 6 wkts, 48 overs) 117

Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-0, 3-52, 4-61, 5-65, 6-108.

Bowling: Harvinder Singh 9-3-30-1, Srivastava 8-2-19-1, Yadav 14-7-29-3, Bangar 9-2-23-0, Karthik 5-2-8-1, Parida 3-1-4-0.