Tigers bag 6 wickets of Sri Lanka before tea

Dhaka – Cutter Master Mustafizur Rahman’s three- wicket haul greatly helped to rattle Sri Lanka’s bating line up (199/6) before tea in the 2nd innings on day four of the 2nd and last Test of the Joy Bangla Cup series at P Sara Oval, Colombo on Saturday.Sri Lanka (338 runs in the first innings) resumed the innings with overnight collection of  54/0 in 13 overs, from behind 75 runs, and now leading by 70 runs with four wicket sin hand and playing 56 overs more .UNB agencyOvernight opener Dimuth Karunaratne batting on hammering a century of 110 off 206 balls, featuring nine boundaries and one overboundary while Dilruwan Perera pairing him in the 7th wicket with two runs.Mustafiz jolted the Lankan batting castle dismissing three wickets –Kusal Mendis (36 off 91b; 2×4), Dinesh Chandimal (5) and Dhananjaya de Silva (0) — for 42 runs, all three were caught behind by keeper-cum- skipper Mushfiqur Rahim.All-rounder Shakib Al Hasan lbw to capture his first one Asela Gunaratne(7) and dismissed Niroshan Dickwella(5), was caught by Mushfiqur, as his 2nd one conceding  42 runs.Mehedi Hasan Miraz made the first break through for Bangladesh bowling out Upul Tharanga (26 off 40b; 3×4) to depart from overnight opening pair at 57/1 in 14.1 overs.  Miraz conceded 56 runs for one wicket.Brief Score: Sri Lanka 1st innings: 338/10 in 113.3 overs; Dinesh Chandimal 138, Suranga Lakmal 35, Dhananjaya de Silva 34, Niroshan Dickwella 34, Mehedi Hasan Miraz 3/90, Mustafizur Rahman 2/50, Subashis Roy 2/53, Shakib Al Hasan 2/80.Sri Lanka 2nd innings: batting on 199/6 in 69 overs (overnight 54/0 in 13.0 overs); Dimuth Karunaratne 103, Kusal Mendis 36, Upul Tharanga 26, Kusal Mendis 36, Mustafizur Rahman 3/42, Shakib Al Hasan 2/40, Mehedi Hasan Miraz 1/53. Bangladesh 1st innings: 467/10 in 134.1 overs; Shakib Al Hasan 116, Mosaddek Hossain 75, Soumya Sarkar 61, Mushfiqur Rahim 52, Tamim Iqbal 49, Sabbir Rahman 42, Imrul Kayes 34, Mehedi Hasan Miraz 24, Rangana Herath 4/82, Lakshan Sandakan 4/104, Suranga Lakmal 1/90.