Bangla struggle after SL’s massive lead
SACHIN, PM CONGRATULATE TEAM Batting great Sachin Tendulkar led the CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh: Sri Lanka spinners led by Rangana Herath took three cru crucial wickets late in day four to leave Bangaldesh with an uphill task of saving the opening Test in Chittag Chittagong on Saturda Saturday.
Ban Bangladesh reached 81-3 at stu stumps, still needing 119 to make S Sri Lanka bat again. The visitors declare declared their first innings at 713-9 in the final fina session.
O ff - s p i n n e r Dilruw Dilruwan Perera dismiss dismissed Imrul Kayes for 19 before left-arm unortho unorthodox bowler Lakshan Sandakan got Ta Tamim Iqbal caught behind for 41.
H r a t h then removed Mushfiq Mushfiqur Rahim for tw two with his left-arm spin in the last over of the day. day
Mominul Haque — 18 not out — was at the crease when the players walked back after another runfilled day. New Zealand M Guptill b Stanlake ...................................5 C Munro c Carey b Stanlake ........................3 K Williamson c Warner b Tye ......................8 T Bruce c Richardson b Stanlake .................3 R Taylor c Carey b Agar ..............................24 T Blundell c Richardson b Zampa..............14 C de Grandhomme (not out) ....................38 M Santner c Warner b Tye ...........................1 T Southee c Stoinis b Tye .............................9 I Sodhi b Tye0 Extras: (B-2, LB-4, W-6) ............................12 Total (For 9 wkts, 20 overs) ............... 117 Fall of wickets: 1-11, 2-11, 3-16, 4-34, 5-60, 6-90, 7-92, 8-114, 9-117. Bowling: Richardson 4-0-28-0, 4-0-15-3, Agar 4-0-22-1, Tye Zampa 3-0-21-1, Stoinis 1-0-2-0. Australia D Warner c Bruce b Boult6 D Short c Taylor b Southee4 C Lynn c Sodhi b Boult44 G Maxwell (not out)40 A Carey (not out)0 Extras (W-2)2 Total (For 3 wkts, 11.3 overs)............96 Fall of wickets: 1-10, 2-10, 3-87. Bowling: Boult 3-0-14-2, Southee 2.3-027-1, Santner 2-0-20-0, Sodhi 3-0-24-0, De Grandhomme 1-0-11-0. Stanlake 4-0-23-4, e
Sri Lanka declared their innings in the third over into the final session with a lead of 200 runs in response to Bangladesh’s first innings total of 513.
Left-arm spinner Taijul Islam, who returned figures of 4-219, took two wickets off his successive overs to wrap up the Sri Lankan innings.
Taijul got the all-important wicket of skipper Dinesh Chandimal for 87 before offspinner Mehedi Hasan removed Niroshan Dickwella for 62 to slow down the Sri Lankan progress.
Debutant left-arm spinner Sunzamul Islam got his maiden Test wicket, trapping Dilruwan Perera leg-before for 32.
Roshen Silva joined the run fest in the morning session to post his maiden Test century after Sri Lanka resumed on 504-3.
He made 109 off 230 balls before becoming the first batsman dismissed on the day.
Silva was Sri Lanka’s third century maker of the innings after Kusal Mendis and Dhananjaya de Silva, who made 196 and 173 runs respectively.
Mehedi ended Silva’s impressive innings when the right-hander edged a low delivery to wicketkeeper Liton Das.
Silva shared a 135-run stand with Chandimal for the fourth wicket and hit six fours and a six.