The third ball of the 13th over, Mahmudul Hasan’s wicket was uprooted by a hard length delivery on the off side. Lahiru Kumara could have said, ‘catch me if you can,’ the way he ran for the joy of getting a wicket.
After building an innings of 531 runs, Sri Lanka will naturally expect to win the Chittagong Test as well. For that purpose, the Lankan pacer was so happy to start picking up the wickets of the Bangladesh team.
The wicket of victory in the late afternoon of the second day has created discomfort in the Bangladesh camp. This opener of the Bangladesh team got bowled after scoring only 21 runs in a great delivery by Lahiru Kumara.
The first day of the Chittagong Test gave an indication. Sri Lanka is going to make a big score. In the end it happened. They built a huge mountain of 531 runs but stopped. Burdened by a big score, Bangladesh lost the wicket of opener Mahmudul Hasan Joy in the late afternoon of the second day when they came out to bat in their first innings.
Taijul Islam entered the field as ‘Night Watchman’ after the win. In the end, the Bangladesh team ended the second day with 55 runs for 1 wicket. Zakir Hasan is batting with 28 runs. Taijul Islam could not score any run despite facing 9 balls. Tigers are still 476 runs behind.
Sri Lanka made a huge capital of 531 runs in 6 fifties in the first innings of the Test. Two openers Nishan Madushanka, Dimuth Karunaratne and Kushal Mendis scored half centuries on the first day.
Dinesh Chandimal, Dhananjaya de Silva and Kamindu Mendis touched the half century milestone on the second day today. Sri Lanka built a mountain of runs in front of Bangladesh with their steadfast batting.
Chandimal and Dhananjaya started the second day’s play for the Lankans today. Both nodded fifty. Finally Shakib Al Hasan broke their pair of 86 runs. Chandimal (59 off 104 balls) was caught by Liton Das behind the wicket by Shakib. Bangladesh’s success in the first session was just one wicket.
Khaled Ahmed returned the Lankan batsman Dhananjaya in the first over of the second session. The Tiger pacer trapped this batsman with 70 runs off 111 balls. Shakib took another wicket in this session. Prabat Jayasuriya (28 off 75 balls) lbw by the Tiger all-rounder.
Nazmul Hossain Shanto ran out Vishwa Fernando (26 balls 11) in the third session. Lahiru Kumara (6 off 12) was bowled by Mehdi Hasan Miraj and Taijul Islam ran out Asitha Fernando before opening the run book.
Earlier on Saturday, the Lankans won the toss and batted at the Chittagong Zahoor Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium. At the end of the first day, the Lankans scored 314 runs, losing 4 wickets and scoring three half-centuries on the scoreboard.
The two Lankan openers made a huge pair of 96 runs after batting. The Tigers broke the pair at the beginning of the second session that day. Half-centurian Madushanka (57) was run out due to a misunderstanding with his partner while taking two runs off Mehdi Hasan Miraj.
Towards the end of the session, Bangladesh got another wicket. Debutant Hasan Mahmud broke Kushal Mendis and Dimuth Karunaratne’s 114-run partnership. Karunaratne (86 runs from 129 balls), who was on the threshold of a century, was bowled by the right-handed pacer while playing a drive on the outside ball.
Bangladesh bowlers took two more wickets in the third session. Sri Lankan batsman Kushal Mendis, just 7 runs short of a century (93 off 150 balls), was caught by Mirage while punching an out-swing ball from Tiger all-rounder Shakib.
Mathews’ partnership with Dinesh Chandimal for the fourth wicket was not great. Only 26 runs. Mathews caught Miraj’s ball from pacer Hasan Mahmud. He got out for 23 runs.
Shakib took 3 wickets for Bangladesh. Hasan Mahmud took 2 wickets and Khaled Ahmed and Mehdi Hasan Miraj took 1 wicket each.
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