Bangladesh could not take more than one wicket in the first session of the third day. Ireland only lost the wicket of Peter Moore. Harry Tector and Lorcan Tucker are slowly making progress in their fight to avoid defeat by an innings gap. At the end of 47 overs of the innings, the Irish collected 93 runs for 5 wickets. In the first session of the third day, they scored 66 runs after losing 1 wicket in 30 overs. They need to score 62 more runs to put Bangladesh back into batting. Moor and Tector took about an hour to score 14 runs off 63 balls the previous day. Just before the first-hour break, Shariful Islam scored 16 runs off 78 balls to cut Moore behind. The 38-run stand of 154 balls broke on his departure. Tector and Tucker are showing resistance again. However, this pair is making relatively fast runs. The two batted together till lunch break and added 42 runs off 89 balls. Tector, who scored a fifty in the first innings on his debut, reached another fifty. He scored 43 runs off 132 balls with 5 fours and 1 six. Keeper-batsman Tucker was unbeaten on 43 balls with 4 fours.