Lunch Bangladesh 66 for five (Litton 26*, Mushfiqur 22*, Rajitha 3-16, Fernando 2-26) vs Sri Lanka
Rajitha angled the ball in from both aspect of the wicket to assault the batters’ stumps, bowling particularly properly towards Bangladesh’s left-handers. Fernando examined each edges and brought on hassle with the little motion he gleaned off the pitch. Together, they put collectively 40 minutes of bowling that would outline the collection. Rajitha’s take for the morning was 3 for 16 from eight overs; Fernando’s was 2 for 26 from eight.
Rajitha set the collapse in movement as early because the second ball. Bowling from vast of the crease, he acquired the ball to straighten barely off the pitch, and whizz between the bat and pad of Mahmudul Hasan Joy, whose off stump was flattened. Rajitha would additionally get two left-handers off successive balls with roughly this technique, solely from across the wicket. In the seventh over of the innings, he tempted Najmul Hossain Shanto into an enormous drive, and took down his off stump as properly. Next ball, he angled one into the pads of Shakib Al Hasan, who performed round it and was given out lbw – a call that was upheld upon evaluate.
Fernando’s wickets, in the meantime, didn’t comply with so shut a sample. He skidded one at Tamim Iqbal within the second over, and the batter despatched a forefront to level, the place Jayawickrama took diving catch. Tamim had been seeking to whip that ball to the legside. Bangladesh’s struggling captain Mominul Haque was Fernando’s subsequent sufferer. Poking at a size ball outdoors off, Mominul despatched a skinny edge to the wicketkeeper, and was out for 9. This was his sixth consecutive single-determine rating, and the seventh in eight innings.
Mushfiqur and Litton noticed out the again finish of the opening bowlers’ spells, then started to appear slightly extra snug on the crease because the session wore on, significantly towards spin. Their partnership recommended there have been no terrors within the floor for the batters. Bangladesh might replicate that the disastrous first 40 minutes was down partly to unfastened batting within the face of probing seam bowling.
Litton went to lunch on 26 off 54, with 4 fours to his title. Mushfiqur was on 22 off 47.