The ‘Tigers’ of Bangladesh could not stand the attack of the Lankan ‘Singhs’ in Sylhet. own field, familiar conditions; However, it took four days for Bangladesh to be unrecognizable. On the third day of the first Test, the batting of Bangladesh was damaged by the Lankans. Only Muminul Haque is credited with taking the match to noon on the fourth day while injured. Bangladesh only managed to close the gap with his fighting 87* in the second innings. However, this fight of Muminul is pointing to one thing – the mentality that Muminul stayed on the wicket, why couldn’t the rest? His batting clearly caught on – batting on this wicket was not difficult.
The two Sri Lankan batsmen Dhananjaya de Silva and Kamindu Mendis have been the epitome of Test temperament throughout. Their impeccable batting pulled the entire team. On the third day, the visitors’ capital stood at 511 runs. It can be said that Bangladesh was knocked out of the match in the beginning by this huge mountain of runs. The history of which team has won the match chasing such a big goal. In that case Bangladesh had to make history to win. Will Nazmul Hossain Shantar’s team make history, they themselves have been an example of bad batting.
On the last afternoon of the third day of the match, the host batsmen batted for an hour. That’s when the fate of the match was confirmed. They lost 5 wickets of the top order for 47 runs. Even with two days in hand, it was just waiting to see how much the host team can reduce the loss gap. The firmness that was not there in the beginning was seen in the lower order in the end.
At one stage, there was a fear of losing 6 wickets for 51 runs. That did not happen with the determination of Muminul, Miraj and Shariful. Because of them, Bangladesh were all out for 182 runs in the second innings. 135 runs have been added in the last 5 wickets. Muminul played an innings of 87 runs off 148 balls with 12 fours and 1 six. Batting at number four for 248 minutes, Muminul has shown that he can stay on the wicket if he wants to. After the departure of Taijul Islam at the beginning of the day on Monday, he made a partnership of 66 runs for the seventh wicket with Mehdi Hasan Miraj. Later he added another 47 runs with Shariful Islam. In the end, Muminul went close to a century in a single fight, but could not do so due to the lack of a partner. Muminul remained unbeaten on 87 runs off 148 balls with 12 fours and 1 six.
Liton-Shant-Zaker Hasan must have regretted sitting in the dressing room watching his batting. If they did not bat bad, they would not have to pay like this! The partner would not be a huge defeat! Sri Lanka has one more win by runs in Tests. That too in 2009 against Bangladesh for 465 runs. In this defeat of 328 runs, more losses have been added to the Test Championship list!
But at the beginning of the year, Bangladesh climbed to the second place in the table by winning the Test against New Zealand. The team lost the next test and went down again. Nazmul Hossain Shanto’s team dropped to seventh place with 12 points after a big loss against the Lankans on Monday. South Africa is at number eight and England is at the bottom.
Lankan pacer Kasun Rajitha took 5 wickets for 56 runs in career best bowling. Like the first innings, all the wickets of Bangladesh were taken by Sri Lankan pacers Rajitha, Kumara and Vishwa Fernando in the second innings. In all, 31 wickets have been taken by the pacers in this test. Which is a record on the soil of Bangladesh.
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