Stats: Bangladesh's remarkable comeback in numbers

Tamim Iqbal and Shakib Al Hasan spoke a lot about the Bangladesh’s chances of recording a victory in the two-match Test series against Australia and proved it themselves by reviving their first innings in the first Test at Dhaka. After electing to bat first, Bangladesh were reduced to 10/3 before the 4th over with Pat Cummins taking all the three wickets with his express pace.

Tamim and Shakib, the stalwarts of Bangladesh cricket made their 50th appearance together in Test cricket in this game. The pair put on a huge stand of 155 runs for the 4th wicket to take the team total to 165/4 from 10/3. This is now the 2nd highest stand for Bangladesh for the 4th wicket in Test cricket behind Shakib’s stand of 165 with Naeem Islam against West Indies 2012 at this very ground.

Despite playing together in 45 Tests matches before this game, this partnership between the two left-handers in this game is only the 5th instance in Tests where the two batted together and the first time since November 2014.

List of partnerships between Tamim Iqbal and Shakib Al Hasan in Test cricket:

The Tamim-Shakib partnership of 155 is the 2nd highest in Test cricket for the 4th wicket which started from a score of 10 or lower. The highest is 237 by the West Indian pair of Larry Gomes and Clive Lloyd in 1983 against India after their side was three down for just one run.

Overall, this was the 8th 100-run stand for the 4th wicket in Test cricket which started after the team lost three wickets for 10 or fewer runs. Bangladesh had one such stand earlier in 2004 where Mohammad Ashraful and Rajin Saleh put on 115 after they were reduced to 5/3 by New Zealand at Dhaka.

Highest 4th wicket partnerships in Test cricket starting at scores of 10/3 or worse:

Lowest scores from which a pair put on a century stand for the 4th wicket in Test cricket:

(Stats as on August 27, 2017)