Right at the end of the third day 's press conference, Matthew Humphreys was asked what could be expected from Ireland on the fourth morning. They need another 215 runs to make Bangladesh bat again and have five wickets in hand.

Humphreys saw the humour in the question. "I think me and Andy [McBrine] walk off 200 each," he said.

Ireland manager Chris Siddle then referred to Ireland's previous Test in Bangladesh , when Lorcan Tucker held back the home team that had all but checked out of their hotel on the third day.

"I remember the last time we played here in Dhaka," Siddle said. "The Bangladesh team were checking out of the hotel on the morning of day three, and they still had to come back for day four, so maybe, you never know."

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