Skipper Abhimanyu Easwaran’s unbeaten 52 after Shahbaz Ahmed’s superb all-round show gave Bengal a glimmer of hope even as Madhya Pradesh firmly held the upper-hand on the penultimate day. Bengal were 96-4 at stumps, needing another 254 runs to reach the stiff winning target of 350.

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