Bangladesh, who were playing their first innings, were 484 for 9 when play was called off on the second day of the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle today (18).
Bangladesh were in a strong position at 292 for 3 when play began on the second day of the match today (18), but Shanto, who had scored 148 runs at the end of the total of 309 runs, was dismissed.
However, Sri Lanka could not capitalize on that wicket.
Liton Das, who joined the field for the 4th wicket, had already scored 110 runs by then and built a one-wicket partnership with Mushfiqur Rahim.
The two of them were able to take Bangladesh’s innings to a total of 423 runs.
However, while Rahim and Das were maintaining a 114-run partnership for the 5th wicket, the match was interrupted by rain.
As a result, the match was delayed for a long time, and when the match resumed, Rahim and Das were unable to build their innings at the previous pace.
After the rain, when Bangladesh’s innings added 35 runs, Rahim scored 163 runs, and Sri Lanka was able to take 4 more wickets by adding 26 runs.
Here, Liton Das’ innings was limited to 90 runs.
For Sri Lanka, Asitha Fernando (3/80), Milan Ratnayake (3/38) and Tharindu Ratnayake (3/196) took 3 wickets each.