
In the second and last Test match played in the rock, Sri Lanka defeated Bangladesh by a big margin of 192 and won the series 2–0. Chasing a huge target of 511 runs for victory on the fifth day, the Bangladeshi team was reduced to 318 runs and cleaned their soup in the series.
When the game of the fifth day started, Bangladesh expected a miracle to win, but the Sri Lankan bowlers did not allow this to happen. Lahiru Kumara dismissed Taizul Islam at the beginning of the day and filled the Sri Lankan camp. Subsequently, Kamindu Mendis, who was in excellent form, took the important wicket of Shakib Al Hasan and also turned water to Bangladesh’s expectations.
Mehdi Hasan Miraz stayed at one end like a rock and scored an unbeaten 81 runs while batting well. He also hit 14 fours in his innings, but he could not get a long support of any batsman from the other end.
As soon as the Bangladeshi team came close to the defeat, Asitha Fernando took the ball and showed the batsmen of the lower order to the pavilion quickly. He dismissed Khalid Ahmed and Nahid Rana and approved Sri Lanka’s magnificent victory.
Kamindu Mendis, who made his bat in the entire series for his brilliant performance ‘Player of the Series’ Choose. With this victory, Sri Lanka has also scored important points in the World Test Championship, while the series for Bangladesh will be remembered as a failure of batting.
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