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Latest Match Report – Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka 1st Check 2023/24

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Bangladesh selected to bowl in opposition to Sri Lanka

Bangladesh received the toss and determined to place Sri Lanka in to bat within the first Check in Sylhet.

Najmul Hossain Shanto stated he hoped for early inroads as he felt the moisture within the wicket from rain earlier within the day may help seam and swing bowling. This might notably help specific pacer Nahid Rana, who Shanto described as “actually thrilling” forward of his worldwide debut.
Lankan skipper Dhananjaya de Silva stated that they might have preferred to have bowled first too, as they’d included three seamers of their lineup. This implies the guests are moving into with simply the one frontline spinner in Prabath Jayasuriya, although Dhananjaya can present an off break choice, whereas the inclusion of the ambidextrous allrounder Kamindu Mendis forward of Sadeera Samarawickrama gives one other part-time spin bowling avenue.

By way of situations, it was a moist morning in Sylhet however the solar has since shone by. There’s some grass on the pitch too, which implies there shall be motion early on for the seamers however the ball will come on to the bat as nicely. So good for batting on the primary couple of days, however with some cracks within the floor the spinners may come into the sport because the Check wears on.

Bangladesh XI: 1 Mahmudul Hasan Pleasure, 2 Zakir Hasan, 3 Najmul Hossain Shanto (capt), 4 Mominul Haque, 5 Shahadat Hossain, 6 Litton Das (wk), 7 Mehidy Hasan Miraz, 8 Taijul Islam, 9 Khaled Ahmed, 10 Nahid Rana, 11 Shoriful Islam

Sri Lanka XI: 1 Nishan Madushka, 2 Dimuth Karunaratne, 3 Kusal Mendis (wk), 4 Angelo Mathews, 5 Dinesh Chandimal, 6 Dhananjaya de Silva (capt), 7 Kamindu Mendis, 8 Prabath Jayasuriya, 9 Vishwa Fernando, 10 Kasun Rajitha, 11 Lahiru Kumara


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