Veteran spinner picks up three quick wickets to bring the match to life.
Shakib Al Hasan picked up three wickets as a fightback by Bangladesh's spinners reduced England to 108 for five at tea on the third day of the opening test on Saturday after Ben Stokes had given the tourists a 45-run first innings lead.
A brilliant effort from Stokes, who finished with 4-26, on a Chittagong pitch largely unresponsive to pace bowling triggered a Bangladesh batting collapse that dispatched the hosts for 248. Scoring runs was becoming increasingly difficult on the spinning track at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium and England also suffered early losses in their second innings.
England were in dire straits at 62 for five at one stage but Stokes (33) and Jonny Bairstow (17) then combined in an unbroken stand of 46 to take them to tea with a lead of 153 runs. Shakib (31), who had fallen on the second ball of the morning to off-spinner Moeen Ali, picked up the wickets of Ben Duckett and Joe Root, while debutant spinner Mehedi Hasan sent back England captain Alastair Cook to reduce them to 28-3 before the lunch break.
The left-arm spinner dismissed Moeen (14) in the second session while Gary Ballance (nine) fell to Taijul Islam. Earlier, the hosts looked as if they would get their noses in front when they resumed the third day on 221 for five but England needed just over an hour to bundle them out.
Stokes had dismissed Bangladesh skipper Mushfiqur Rahim (48) shortly before the close of play on Friday, getting the ball to reverse swing and extracting ample bounce off the slow pitch. He continued to swing the ball in the morning, adding the wickets of debutant Sabbir Rahman, Mehedi and Kamrul Islam to his tally. Moeen finished with 3-75 as Bangladesh lost their last six wickets for 27 runs.
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