Sri Lanka is eyeing its first Test win in additional than a yr after claiming a primary innings lead of 249 runs and reaching 17 for 3 at stumps to safe an total lead of 259 runs within the second Test towards Bangladesh on Saturday.
Praveen Jayawickrama grew to become the fifth Sri Lankan to say a five-wicket haul on debut as he completed with six for 92. The left-arm orthodox spinner triggered a sensational collapse as Bangladesh was bowled out for 251 after being 214 for 3 at one stage.
The wicket supplied some help for Sri Lanka’s spinners and Jayawickrama cleverly combined up his deliveries to hassle Bangladesh batsmen. Suranga Lakmal and Ramesh Mendis took two wickets apiece as Bangladesh was bowled out in 83 overs.
“The advice that I got from the seniors,” the 22-year-old Jayawickrama stated, “was to not to be rattled when the batsmen go after the bowling. They wanted me to bowl lots of dot balls and create the pressure and that worked today.”
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Tamim Iqbal was strong troubling the Sri Lankan seamers with an array of attacking photographs. With the seamers unable to make the breakthrough, Dimuth Karunaratne turned to his spinners and each Jayawickrama and Mendis bowled precisely denying Tamim frequent boundaries.
Tamim, who had been dismissed for 90 within the first Test, but once more fell eight runs in need of a well-deserved hundred when Jayawickrama foxed him with a ball that didn’t flip a lot.
Mominul Haque (49) and Mushfiqur Rahim (40) fought again however each batsmen had been dismissed both facet of tea as Sri Lanka wrestled again the initiative.
Mominul was dropped on one and 11, each off Jayawickrama, and his luck lastly ran out one in need of a half-century when he missed a full toss by Mendis that wrapped on the pads and he was plumb leg earlier than wicket.
Jayawickrama claimed his fifth wicket when he trapped Mehidy Hasan leg earlier than wicket for 16. He is the fifth Sri Lankan to take a five-wicket haul on debut after Kosala Kuruppuarachchi, Upul Chandana, Akila Dananjaya and Lasith Embuldeniya.
“Really happy with the effort to take six wickets on my debut, but a lot of work is left to be done over the next two days and I am looking forward for the challenge,” Jayawickrama stated.
Taskin Ahmed was Jayawickrama’s sixth sufferer and third given out leg earlier than wicket. Bangladesh batsmen weren’t choosing his straight one and he may have run via the tail however with the brand new ball taken after 80 overs Lakmal hammered the ultimate nails on the coffin.
With two full days left and a large first innings lead, Sri Lanka was anticipated to implement the observe on, however opted to bat once more.
Sri Lanka will safe the sequence by successful the second Test after the primary one resulted in a tame draw.
Russell Domingo, coach of the Bangladesh squad, was upset with the batting.
“They are putting in the hours in the field and the nets. Unfortunately, today we just came unstuck,” he stated. “We made some poor decisions, I suppose, when we were batting. There’s no excuse for the batting failure.”
Domingo was assured his gamers is not going to surrender.
“Sri Lanka are dominating at the moment, but if we can pick up early wickets tomorrow morning, cause a little bit of jitters in the change room, you never know,” he stated.
