InningsBangladesh 467 ((Shakib 116, Mosaddek 75, Herath 4-82) lead Sri Lanka 338 (Chandimal 138, Mehedi 3-90) by 129 runs
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Bangladesh were bowled out for 467 runs, taking a lead of 129 runs over Sri Lanka. They lost the remaining three wickets in 18.1 overs in the third session. Mosaddek Hossain, after making 75 on his Test debut, was the last man out – stumped off Rangana Herath who finished with four wickets.
Mosaddek and Mehedi had, after tea, batted steadily. There was only one boundary in the 12 overs they batted after the break, ending with Mehedi falling leg-before to Herath after making 24 off 50 balls. Next ball, Mustafizur was trapped leg-before too, giving Herath 1,000 first-class wickets. He is the second man from Sri Lanka to get to the mark after Muttiah Muralitharan.
The day has mostly belonged to Bangladesh. In the first session, Shakib and Mushfiqur Rahim continued their sixth wicket stand from the second evening, extending it to 90 runs before the captain got bowled by Suranga Lakmal’s full inswinger soon after taking the new ball.
But Bangladesh continued to put together partnerships in the second session, the next being the 131-run stand for the seventh wicket with Mosaddek Hossain. During this partnership the visitors went past Sri Lanka’s 338, making it only the second occasion after Galle 2013 that Bangladesh took first innings lead in an away game.
Shakib, after getting a third life on 67 and some more near misses, reached his fifth Test century with a lot of proficiency in most parts of his innings. As the session rolled towards the tea break. Few minutes before the interval, he holed out at mid-on for 116, having struck 10 fours in the 159-ball stay.
Shakib Al Hasan reached his fifth Test hundred in one of several milestones during the second session of the third day’s play in Colombo. Bangladesh breezed past Sri Lanka’s first-innings 338 to lead by 90 runs.
Shakib’s knock apart, Mosaddek Hossain notched up a fifty on Test debut, and Bangladesh took a first-innings lead for only the second time while batting second in an away Test, having last done so in Galle in 2013.
Bangladesh added 112 runs in the middle session, after a conservative start to the day. Mosaddek started off with a stunning square drive, before a short-arm punch through midwicket got them the precious lead. Soon, Shakib got his third life – Upul Tharanga had dropped him on 11 and Dinesh Chandimal had thrown wide when he was way out of his crease on 40 – with Niroshan Dickwella dropping an under edge when he was on 67.
Shakib continued merrily and got to the century in the 111th over with a well-timed sweep off Dilruwan Perera. But three overs later, he became Lakshan Sandakan’s fourth wicket when he holed out to mid-on for 116, ending a seventh-wicket partnership of 131. His eventful 159-ball stay contained ten fours, but it was an innings that was more about how he curbed his aggression for long periods on the third morning.
Earlier, Shakib, along with Mushfiqur Rahim, batted out the first nine overs quietly. But with Sri Lanka’s bowlers regularly offering up full and wide deliveries from there on, the pair started picking boundaries. But immediately after taking the second new ball, Lakmal removed Mushfiqur for 52 with a full inswinger.
Mohammad Isam is ESPNcricinfo’s Bangladesh correspondent. @isam84
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