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SL 512/5 in 149 over on Day-3

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Update: 2014-01-29 02:04:24
SL 512/5 in 149 over on Day-3

DHAKA: Sri Lanka scored 512 runs losing five wickets with a lead of 280 runs in the 1st innings on Wednesday, the third day of the first test in Mirpur.

Mahela Jayawardene and Angelo Mathews are on the crease 108 and 70 runs respectively.

Bangladesh bowlers failed to make any breakthrough till 12:59 pm in the second session of the third day of the match.    

On Tuesday, Shakib Al Hasan begged three wickets while Al-Amin Hossain and Sohag Gazi took one wicket respectively.    

After a good showing against Pakistan in United Arab Emirates (UAE) weeks ago, Lankan batsman Silva took off from where he left and completed a well deserved maiden hundred.

It was debutant medium pacer Al-Amin Hossain who applied the brakes, removing Sangakkara for 75 to break a 155-run stand for the second wicket and Shakib, soon after trapped Siva for 139.

Brief scores:

Bangladesh 232 (Shakib Al Hasan 55, Mushfiqur Rahim 61, Sohag Gazi 42; Shaminda Eranga 4 for 49, Suranga Lakmal 3 for 66) trail Sri Lanka 512 for five (Dimuth Karunaratne 53, Kaushal Silva 139, Kumar Sangakkara 75; Jayawardene 108*     Angelo Mathews    70*      Shakib Al Hasan 3 for 129) by 185 runs.


Bangladesh: Tamim Iqbal, Shamsur Rahman, Marshall Ayub, Mominul Haque, Mushfiqur Rahim (capt & wk), Shakib Al Hasan, Nasir Hossain, Sohag Gazi, Robiul Islam, Rubel Hossain, Al Amin Hossain.

Sri Lanka: 1 Kaushal Silva, 2 Dimuth Karunaratne, 3 Kumar Sangakkara, 4 Mahela Jayawardene, 5 Kithuruwan Vithanage, 6 Angelo Mathews (capt), 7 Dinesh Chandimal (wk), 8 Dilruwan Perera, 9 Shaminda Eranga, 10 Rangana Herath, 11 Suranga Lakmal.

BDST: 1300 HRS, JAN 29, 2014

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