Sri Lanka easily beat Bangladesh by 10 wickets in the second Test to win the two-match series 0-1 with the help of brilliant bowling by Asit...
Sri Lanka easily beat Bangladesh by 10 wickets in the second Test to win the two-match series 0-1 with the help of brilliant bowling by Asitha Fernando.
In the second Test of the series played in Mirpur, Bangladesh, the hosts scored 365 runs in the first innings, including the best innings by veteran batsman Mushfiqur Rahim.
Bangladesh lost 5 wickets for just 24 runs in the first innings, after which Mushfiqur Rahim and Lytton Das formed a long partnership of 272 runs to take the score to 296 runs.
Both the batsmen also completed their centuries, Lytton Dan was dismissed for 141 while Mushfiqur Rahim played an innings of 175 without being dismissed.
Sri Lankan bowlers thwarted other Bangladeshi batsmen, Tajul Islam was the third batsman to cross the double digits and score 15 runs.
Cosan Rajitha took 5 wickets and Asitha Fernando took 4 wickets.
Sri Lanka scored 506 runs in their first innings thanks to the excellent performance of the batsmen.
Angelo Mathews top-scored with 145 in the first innings.
Shakib Al Hasan took 5 wickets and Ibadat Hussain took 4 wickets.
Bangladesh batsmen also failed in the second innings and could not play big innings in front of the bowling of Asitha Fernando.
Shakib Al Hasan (58) and Lytton Das (52) were the standouts.
Asitha Fernando took 6 wickets to open the batting of the host team and limited to a short score of 169 runs.
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