Bangladesh vs India: Why visitors were awarded 5 runs in first innings of Day 2?

Team India resumed their innings on the second Day of the first Test match vs Bangladesh from overnight 278/6 and ended their innings at 404. India lost Shreyas Iyer early on Day 2 who scored 86 runs. But later Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, and Kuldeep Yadav took Indian batting to a commanding position.

But one incident caught everyone's attention, visitors were awarded five penalty runs for Bangladesh's mistake in the field.

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It happened in the 112th over of the Indian batting innings where Ashwin got an edge off the second ball that went past the first slip to the third-man region. The fielder threw the ball toward the keepers’ end, but it ended up hitting the helmet placed behind the stumps. The on-field umpire Michael Gough noticed it and immediately awarded five penalty runs to the tourists.

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Brief Scores: India 404 in 133.5 overs (Cheteshwar Pujara 90, Shreyas Iyer 86; Taijul Islam 4/133, Mehidy Hasan Miraz 4/112) lead Bangladesh 133/8 in 44 overs (Mushfiqur Rahim 28, Litton Das 24; Kuldeep Yadav 4/33, Mohammed Siraj 3/14) by 271 runs

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