Harry Tector hit a half-century as Eire pushed Bangladesh into the fifth day of their second Take a look at in Mirpur.
A Bangladesh victory nonetheless appears the seemingly end result with the hosts requiring simply 4 wickets and Eire needing 333 extra runs to spring a shock.
The fourth day handed off with out incident after Friday’s third day of motion was briefly stopped due to a 5.7 magnitude earthquake within the capital metropolis Dhaka.
Bangladesh constructed on their sturdy begin to the sequence and had a lead of 508 runs by the point captain Najmul Hossain Shanto declared their innings closed on 297-4.
Eire suffered an early blow of their batting as openers Andrew Balbirnie and Paul Stirling had been out by the eighth over for simply 13 and 9 runs.
Heinrich Mallan’s aspect recovered as Curtis Campher and Tector steadied the innings, with the latter registering his fifth Take a look at half-century.
Campher stayed the course and was 34 not out with Andy McBrine on 11 alongside him to chop the hole.
The match resumes on Sunday at 03:30 GMT.
Bangladesh received the primary Take a look at of the two-match sequence by an innings and 47 runs.
The second Take a look at might be adopted by three T20 internationals.
