DHAKA: Visiting Zimbabwe trailed by 102 runs at stumps on day-3 in their first innings of the second Test against Bangladesh at Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium in Khulna Tuesday.

Masakadza and Chakava will resume the innings with 154 and 75 runs respectively on Thursday in the match of the Bashundhara Cement Test Series.

Shakib Al Hasan and Taijul Islam bagged three and two wickets respectively.

Hamilton Masakadza had struck a ton on Test debut over 13 years ago. He made another when Zimbabwe ended a six-year exile from the longest format in 2011.

Bangladesh were on the receiving end of that innings and would have been wary of his presence even as they broke the middle-order after lunch in Khulna. Zimbabwe were teetering but Masakadza would not let them fall.

His fourth Test century - a career-best and unbeaten 154 - has whittled the deficit down to 102. Regis Chakabva struck a defiant half-century and has kept Zimbabwe alive and ticking.

Earlier in the first innings, Tamim Iqbal scored 109-run, his fifth Test Match hundred while Shakib Al Hasan banged 137-run, his third century in the test arena.

Mahmudullah Riyadh scored 56 while prolific Mominul Haque amassed 35-run for Bangladesh.

T Panyangara, TL Chatara and MN Waller bagged two wickets each while E Chigumbura,     N M’shangwe and H Masakadza took one wicket each.

On October 27, Bangladesh won the first Test match by three wickets at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka.

Bangladesh team:

Tamim Iqbal, Shamsur Rahman, Mominul Haque, Mahmudullah, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim*†, Shuvagata Hom, Taijul Islam, Shahadat Hossain, Rubel Hossain and Jubair Hossain.


Zimbabwe team:

Sikandar Raza, B Chari, H Masakadza, BRM Taylor*, MN Waller, CR Ervine, E Chigumbura, RW Chakabva†, T Panyangara, N M'shangwe and TL Chatara.

BDST: 1720 HRS, NOV 05, 2014