India win but not before Ashraful's swan-song

Let me begin from Day2, when the painful, excruciatingly slow Sachin resumed. His innings was a torture and he laboured through the day, without ever dominating or looking like to dominate. The only decent act he did was to hand over the strike 3 times in an over before lunch, for Karthik to get his 100. Sachin's innings, as noted in the comments below by Ram, was uninspiring and I guess that he will get an uneventful string of low scores in England or score when it may not matter much. Dhoni injected some much needed life into the innings and Dravid could declare at last. I have seen too many sedate Indian 100s whch had ruined the possibility of a result, over the years and I was fearful of one more but B'desh by then had other ideas.
When India bowled, the B'deshi batsmen had the unerring liking for the pavilion and I don't blame them, after seeing the conditions. The side had lost 5 before the end of day's play and India for their part dropped 4 catches. Karthik showed them how butterfingered he can get and Powar displayed his lack of enthu for fielding.
When day 3 began, it was a question of how long B'desh could last but when Zaheer started with a wicket in the 1st over, it was all over too quick for B'desh. Zaheer had redeemed himself after a poor show in Worldcup, ODIs and the 1st test. RP never looked like threatening and the dream ball, he bowled to hapless Basheer, should have a hit wide crack. I watched the debutant Ishant with some interest and from 1st looks - another trundler with not much of movement to boot.
The 2nd innings was going the same way before Ashraful decided to show them how it should be done. He was at the press conference the previous day, promising a better show and the way, he hooked, pulled, drove, one could see loads of talent. If he could have carried on, Richard's fastest century was under threat but Kumble did the rescue act for Dravid and India could avoid the blushes, until Morteza began freeing up his arms and clouting those 4s and 6s. The fielding got worse and in all, India should have dropped a dozen in 2 innings (nothing new of course). They wanted to compete with the West Indian side for the worst fielding award. The lack of quick strikes ensured that Morteza could muster up another 50. In the end, the only positives for India - Zaheer getting back to some form and some show of promise by Karthik in batting.