2024-04-05 03:02:43
It’s exactly 11:15 on the clock. The eastern sun is also waiting to come to the middle of the sky. The sunshine was felt since morning. A gentle breeze was blowing lightly. Ideal environment to play red ball cricket in white clothes.
But the players of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are shaking hands with each other! oh The game is over. While the visitors’ dressing room erupted in laughter, the hosts’ camp fell silent. When one side rejoices with the title. The other side is hiding its face. Another test loss has added to the whitewash. After defeating Bangladesh by 192 runs in Sylhet, Sri Lanka also flew the flag of victory in the Chittagong Test.
Sri Lanka was just waiting to complete the formalities of victory. They needed 3 wickets to win the Chittagong Test. The goal for Bangladesh has always been to touch the sky. Akash Kusum Kalpana wants to score 243 runs with the remaining 3 wickets in hand. Bangladesh could not. The fate of the match was decided in the bat-ball battle of one and a half hours.
Not much happened in the opening four overs of the day. Miraj and Taijul spent time in defensive cricket. Mixed situation in the fifth over. Mirage Pathan drives the second ball from Kamindur to the boundary. Mirage reached his fifty after five innings in that four. It was the sixth fifty-touch innings of his career. However, Bangladesh lost the first wicket of the day after two balls. Taijul is caught at slip when he tries to drive the ball away from the offstump. Madushankar did not have trouble collecting the catch. His 28-ball 14-run innings stopped there.
Taijul played more balls than many batsmen of Bangladesh in the two-match Test series. He also scored more runs. Zakir Hasan scored 101 runs off 173 balls. Lytton scored 67 runs off 119 balls. Shahadat Dipu scored 41 runs off 99 balls. Captain Shanto scored 32 runs off 81 balls. Win 57 off 124 balls. There, Taijul showed extreme patience and played 184 balls keeping the wicket. Scored 89.
After losing the partner, Mirage’s tail batsmen started fighting. After the batsmen failed as a team, all that was left was to touch a personal milestone. Only Mirage was in the limelight. By playing shots around the wicket, he continued to move towards three figures little by little.
Hasan Mahmud, who dropped to ten, could not accompany him for long. He made his way to the dressing room just before the first hour’s water break. This batsman who scored 6 runs off 25 balls was caught at short leg by pacer Lahiru Kumara’s short ball.
The Lankan pacer also put the last nail in Bangladesh’s coffin. Back in his second over bowled Khaled with a great yorker. A huge victory for the Lankans was confirmed there. Mirage remained unbeaten on 81 runs, 19 runs away from the century.
Bangladesh’s target was 511 at both places in Sylhet and Chittagong. After losing by 328 runs in Sylhet, Bangladesh’s margin of defeat in Chittagong is 192. A severe lack of fighting mentality was revealed once again. The familiar question arose once again, and when will Bangladesh learn the test?
Along with Man of the Match, Kamindu Mendis is also the Man of the Series. No one should hesitate to say that Sri Lanka got the match winner again after the change. This series was written in his name.