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Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim said he was surprised by the discipline of seamer Mohammad Shahid, and praised Mustafizur Rahman's ability to learn quickly

Bangladesh may receive most of the plaudits for their plucky performance for most of the three days of the drawn first Test but Hashim Amla believes that South Africa were in pole position when the weather intervened

Mushfiqur Rahim said South Africa could have crumbled under the pressure of scoring quickly if play had been possible on the last two days of the Chittagong Test

The first Test between Bangladesh and South Africa ended in a tame draw after rain washed out the last two days without a ball being bowled

Imrul Kayes has said that Bangladesh were disappointed at missing out on the fourth day's play, as he felt the hosts were in a better position than South Africa in the Chittagong Test

Although rain interrupted parts of the one-day series and brought an early end to two of the three days in this Test, it had its first proper say of the tour when the fourth day's play was washed out without a ball being bowled

Liton Das shared an 82-run stand with Shakib Al Hasan to help Bangladesh build a 78-run lead, but South Africa's openers, Dean Elgar and Stiaan van Zyl, all but wiped that away

Two spectators were detained at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong for racially abusing a South African player on the second day of the first Test

Quinton de Kock has been fined 75% of his match fee after pleading guilty to his involvement in a shoulder-barging incident with Tamim Iqbal on the second day of the Chittagong Test

Half-centuries from Tamim Iqbal and Mahmudullah, who shared in a third-wicket stand of 89, took Bangladesh to within 100 runs of South Africa's first-innings total before rain ruined their chances of pressing towards a lead

South Africa's slid dramatically from 136 for 1 to 248 all out as Mustafizur Rahman, making his Test debut, mowed through their middle-order on the first day of the first Test in Chittagong

The Bangladesh management believe the Test series will be decided by how well their batsman handle the South African pace challenge

In eight previous Tests between these two sides, South Africa have beaten Bangladesh seven times by an innings and once by five wickets inside four days