Jarvis, Tiripano tear through Bangladesh top order

Kyle Jarvis and Tendai Chatara gave Zimbabwe early control by striking thrice to rip through Bangladesh's top-order in the first session of the second Test. The home side went to lunch on 56 for 3, with Mominul Haque and Mushfiqur Rahim, the two unbeaten batsmen, having to battle tight lines and subtle changes of length.

Jarvis and Chatara gave Liton Das and Imrul Kayes a proper workover in the first half an hour. Liton survived a caught-behind decision through a review in the second over, but he hardly timed a ball. Imrul's painstaking 16-ball stay ended when he inside-edged Jarvis through to the keeper in the seventh over of the morning.

Liton followed in Jarvis' next over, chipping an easy catch handed to Brandon Mavuta at short midwicket, having made nine off 35 balls. Debutant Mohammad Mithun played a horrendous shot to get out for a duck. To an away-going delivery from Jarvis that started on off-stump, Mithun threw his bat at it in an attempt to squeeze it through behind point. Instead, he got a thick outside edge that went straight to Brendan Taylor at second slip.

Bangladesh avoided serious strife when Mominul survived a dropped chance on 9. Slapping a back of a length delivery from Tendai Chatara, Mominul failed to keep it down. Brian Chari nearly pulled off a brilliant effort at point, stretching to his left with the ball going over his head, but couldn't quite hold on. Nevertheless, his batting injected some life into the Bangladesh innings as he struck four boundaries in the first session, one each through gully, midwicket, cover and mid-off.

In the last over before lunch, Mominul survived a stumping chance off Sikandar Raza's flighted delivery that drew him forward, as he and Mushfiqur kept their tough rebuilding job intact.