1st Test, Day 1 – Brief scores: Sri Lanka 280/10 in 68 overs (Rajitha 6*; Madushka 2, Mendis 16, Karunaratne 17, Mathews 5, Chandimal 9, Kamindu 102, Dhananjaya 102, Prabath 1, Fernando 9, Kumara 0)
Bangladesh: 32/3 in 10 overs in first innings (Zai 9*, Taijul 0*, Zakir 9, Shanto 5, Muminul 5; Vishwa 2/9, Rajitha 1/20)
End of first day: Sri Lanka lead by 248 runs.
After bowling out Sri Lanka for 280 runs, Bangladesh is in danger in batting. For 31 runs, three top-order batsmen have returned to the dressing room. They finished the first day’s play with 32 runs for 3 wickets. Still Sri Lanka lead by 248 runs.
Bangladesh got off to a great start by winning the toss and sending Sri Lanka into bat. The visitors lost 5 wickets for 57 runs in the face of Khaled Ahmed’s cannon.
Then Sri Lanka made an incredible comeback. Dhananjaya de Silva and Kamindu Mendis made a pair of 202 runs. Both scored centuries. Equal 102 runs came from the bat of both.
Debutant Nahid Rana sent back Kamindu and Dhananjaya. Sri Lanka scored 259 runs for 5 wickets and could not stand any longer. They lost the last 5 wickets for 21 runs.
The opening pair broke down for 11 runs in response. Nazmul Hossain Shanto was also dismissed by Biswa Fernando. Bangladesh lost their third wicket in the eighth over. Muminul Haque was hunted by Kasun Rajitha. Taijul Islam did not open the account of runs after playing 1 ball playing as night watchman with Mahmudul Hasan Joy who was unbeaten for 9 runs.
Muminul is also out
One of Bangladesh’s best Test batsmen, Muminul Haque, could not help either. Kasun Rajitha showed him the way to Sajghar in the eighth over. Bangladesh lost the third wicket by 31 runs. Muminul caught Kamindu Mendis for 5 runs off 7 balls.
Zakir-Shantar bid adieu to Biswa’s double blow
The opening pair of Zakir Hasan and Mahmudul Hasan Kajol disappointed. Their partnership was broken by Vishwa Fernando on the second ball of the third over. The umpire gave lbw to the strong appeal of the Sri Lankan pacer. Zakir took the review but the umpire’s call ended his innings. The Bangladeshi opener got out after scoring 9 runs off 8 balls.
Biswa succeeded in his LBW appeal against captain Nazmul Hossain Shanta in his second over. The Bangladeshi batter took the review even though the umpire raised his finger. Couldn’t save the wicket. Shanta stopped at 5 runs off 10 balls. Bangladesh lost 2 wickets for 17 runs.
Bangladesh stopped Sri Lanka for 280 runs
Bangladesh managed to take the first session with the bowling of Khaled Ahmed. 5 wickets for 57 runs left the Lankans cornered. Kamindu Mendis and Dhananjaya de Silva rescued the Lankans from that disaster. They pulled the innings by scoring a century. The way the pair were batting, a score of three hundred was not impossible. They completely ruled in the second session. Nahid Rana broke the resistance by returning two centurions in the third session. The anointed pacer broke the pair of 202 runs! The Lankans could not go far after that. The first innings of the first test was all out for 280 runs.
Khaled Ahmed and the anointed Nahid Rana spread light with the ball in the first and third sessions. Khaled took 3 wickets for 72 runs. Nahid Ranao took three for 87 runs. Shariful Islam and Taijul Islam took one each.
Taijul broke Fernando’s resistance
After Sri Lanka’s eighth wicket fell for 265 runs, Vishwa Fernando was trying to resist. Taijul caught the bowler who scored 9 runs off 19 balls.
Eighth wicket fell to Nahid
Sri Lanka’s resistance was broken when Nahid Rana took the wicket of two centuries. After that he did not let the new batter Prabath Juasuriya stand. The right-arm pacer also picked up the third wicket of the debut Test by gloved Prabath (1).
Nahid Rana dismissed two centurions
Bangladesh could not take any wicket in the second session. In the third session, the resistance of the Lankans was finally broken. Debuted pacer Nahid Rana picked up another centurion Dhananjaya by dismissing centurion Kamindu. The Lankan captain was caught by Mehdi Hasan Miraj while pulling his short ball. He scored 102 runs off 131 balls before returning. It had 12 fours and 1 six.
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After losing 5 wickets for 57 runs, Kamindu Mendis and Dhananjaya De Silva’s sixth wicket pair ruled over Bangladesh. Against them, the score of the Lankans was 250. Debuted pacer Nahid Rana broke the pair of 202 runs in the third session. Kamindu sent off Mendis. By then, however, he has seen the first century of his career. Kamindu was gloved by Nahid Rana with a great delivery. The Lankan batsman scored 102 runs off 127 balls before returning. There were 11 fours and 3 sixes.
Earlier, Bangladesh lost a golden opportunity to dismiss Dhananjaya in 53.1 overs. When Taijul’s ball hits the pad, they appeal for leg before. The umpire didn’t respond though. However, it was seen in the replay, the Lankan captain would have been out if the review was taken! But Bangladesh did not take the review. Then Dhananjaya was batting on 95 runs. After Kamindu’s dismissal, Dhananjaya also picked up his 11th century.
Bangladesh could not take any wicket in the second session
Bangladesh was able to dominate in the first session. They could not take any wicket in the second session. After losing 5 wickets for 57 runs, the Lankan team took control by resisting. Especially in the sixth wicket pair of Kamindu Mendis and Dhananjaya De Silva unbroken 160 runs, the Lankans turned around. 217 runs for 5 wickets before the tea break in the second session.
After the break, the two were focused on aggressive batting. He is running towards a hundred after picking up a fifty. It added 125 runs in this session.
Dhananjaya-Kamindu’s aggressive batting resisted the Lankans
Sri Lanka was cornered by losing 5 wickets for 57 runs. In the sixth wicket pair, captain Dhananjaya and Kamindu resisted aggressive batting. Returning from lunch, the two focused on aggressive batting. It speeds up the wheel of the run. In an unbreakable pair, the two again picked up fifty. This is Dhananjaya’s 14th fifty and Kamindu’s second.
Khaleder Tope first session of Bangladesh
In the first Test in Sylhet, Bangladesh succeeded in taking the bowling at the start. The host team dominated the first innings by picking up 5 wickets of the Lankans before lunch. Pacer Khaled Ahmed has made a big contribution behind this. He alone took 3 top order wickets. Nishan Madushka (2), Kushal Mendis (16) and Dimuth Karunaratne (17) have been dismissed. Bangladesh can take 4 wickets before fifty and put the Lankans under severe pressure if Angelo Mathews gets out with Shantar’s great throw. After that Chandimal was dismissed by Shariful for 57 runs and the visitors were cornered in the first session. Shariful also created opportunities to take the sixth wicket. But Mahmudul Hasan Joy could not catch Kamindu Mendis. On the occasion of which Kamindu and captain Dhananjaya managed to resist until lunch. Their pair added 35 runs. Sri Lanka collected 92 runs in the first innings after losing 5 wickets in the first session.
Sri Lanka cornered by losing 5 wickets before lunch
Bangladesh took 4 wickets of Sri Lanka before fifty and put them under severe pressure. Of which 3 wickets were taken by pacer Khaled Ahmed. This time Shariful left Chandimal back before the lunch of the Lankans.
Chandimal glanced Shariful’s back of length delivery in 16.2 overs. But Mirage was already standing. Chandimal returned to Sajghar for 9 with his brilliant catch. Although clean caught reviews have been going on for a long time. After that the TV umpire decided to out.
Fourth wicket fell in run out, Sri Lanka in danger
Sri Lanka was already under pressure after losing 3 wickets to Khaled. Bangladesh put them in more danger by dismissing Mathews (5) in 13.4 overs. Skipper Shanta dismissed the Lankan batter with a great throw.
Khaled alone took 3 wickets
After losing the first wicket in the second over, Kushal Mendis and Dimuth Karunaratne were trying to handle the shock. They added 37 runs. However, their resistance did not last long. Khaled made Mendis his second victim in 11.2 overs. His short and wide deliveries got plenty of bounce. Mendis was immediately confused by it. He could not decide whether to play or leave. While making the cut, he tried to remove the bat, but by then it was too late. The ball touched the bat and went to the hands of Zakir Hasan who was in the foul. Kushal returns for 16 off 26 balls. Khaled also bowled Dimuth Karunaratne in the last ball of the same over to put Sri Lanka under pressure. The Lankan opener tried to play with enough gap to get inside him. The resulting ball hits his off stump in the gap. Karunaratne stopped at 17 runs.
Khaled returned the Lankan opener in the second over
After winning the toss due to cloudy conditions, Bangladesh captain Nazmul Hossain Shanto said that he would like to use the morning conditions. Bangladesh has succeeded in that goal. In the second over, opener Madushka was sent to the dressing room by pacer Khaled Ahmed. The Lankan opener caught Mehedi Hasan Miraj at third slip while driving his fuller length ball. He scored only 2 runs before returning.
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This is the first time in 9 years
Bangladesh has improved a lot in the elite format of Test cricket in recent times. To maintain that consistency against Sri Lanka at home, Sylhet will play the first Test of the series today. The host team won the toss and invited the Lankans to bat.
This is the first time in 9 years that Bangladesh has won the toss and fielded first in a Test at home. The last time they fielded against Pakistan, they lost that Test by 328 runs.
It has been taken for granted over the past few years that Sri Lanka-Bangladesh matches are fiercely contested. Be it on the field or off the field. Ever since Angelo Mathews was timed out in the last World Cup, the tension between the two teams has been spreading. The issue has returned in the last two series. The Sri Lankan team celebrated the timed out after winning the T20 series in Sylhet. Mushfiq Rao took that revenge in the ODI series in Chittagong. This time they are going to enter the field in the Test series with equality in celebration.
Nahid Rana’s debut
Pacer Nahid Rana was expected to make his debut in the first Test. It happened. He got a chance to play in the national team after making a storm in the BPL. Shariful Islam is with this anointed pacer. About which there was apprehension. There is another pacer Khaled Ahmed. Bangladesh is entering the field today with three pacers and two spinners.
Bangladesh XI: Mahmudul Hasan Joy, Zakir Hossain, Nazmul Hossain Shanto (captain), Muminul Haque, Shahadat Hossain, Liton Das (wicketkeeper), Mehdi Hasan Miraj, Taijul Islam, Khaled Ahmed, Nahid Rana and Shariful Islam.
Sri Lanka XI: Nishan Madushka, Dimuth Karunaratne, Kushal Mendis (wicketkeeper), Angelo Mathews, Dinesh Chandimal, Dhananjaya de Silva (captain), Kamindu Mendis, Prabhath Jayasuriya, Vishwa Fernando, Kasun Rajitha and Lahiru Kumara.
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