Bangladesh 133/4 off 30 ovrs in 2nd innings
Thursday, 30 January 2014
Bangladesh 232 in 1st innsings and 133 for 4 wickets in 30.0 overs in 2nd innings against Sri Lanka's 730 for 6 dec (Jayawardene 203*, Mathews 86, Vithanage 103*)
Bangladesh scored 133 runs for the loss of four wickets in the 2nd innings of their 1st cricket Test against Sri Lanka on Thursday, the 4th day of the 5-day game. Mominul Hoque was batting on 50 off 56 balls while Mushfiqur Rahim was the other unbeaten batsman in the crease with nine runs off 16 balls. An earlier report said, individual milestones dominated the most one-sided of the three days so far as Sri Lanka eventually declared after piling on a whopping 730 for 6, after Mahela Jayawardene reached his seventh double-century and Kithuruwan Vithanage scored his maiden century in only his third cricte Test. By tea, Sri Lanka were already ahead by a healthy 370, but the captain Angelo Mathews held back the declaration till Jayawardene reached his milestone, giving the Lankans a seemingly unassailable lead of 498. Sri Lanka picked up a late wicket to cap another dominant day. Bangladesh had been on the field since the final session on the first day and the physical and mental fatigue was apparent with the way they carried themselves on the third day, as if waiting to be told when to head indoors and pad up. Their specialist seamers weren't effective enough and their spinners too were at the mercy of Sri Lanka's in-form batting line-up. There was little the part-timers could do, according to cricinfo.