Sri Lanka beat Bangladesh by 99 runs in the third ODI. With this, the home team also won the 3-match series 2-1. Sri Lanka also won the Test series 1-0. Wicketkeeper Kusal Mendis scored a century in the third ODI, for which he received the Player of the Match award.
Nisanka-Mendis partnered Fifty On Tuesday, Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat. The team lost the opener Madushka's wicket in the fourth over, he was able to score only 1 run. Then another opener Pathum Nisanka partnered with Fifty with Kusal Mendis. However, he also returned to the pavilion with 35 runs.
Sri Lankan openers were only able to share 13 runs.
A century partnership between Mendis-Ansalanka Kamindu Mendis, who was batting at number four, was dismissed for just 16 runs. After that, Captain Charith Aslanka scored a fifty and shared a century with Kusal. The duo added 124 for the fourth wicket, Aslanka was dismissed for 58 runs.
Mendis scored a century, but in front of him Janith Liang 12, Dunith Vellag 6, Vanindu Hasranga 18 and Dushmantha Chamira scored only 10 runs. Kusal Mendis was dismissed for 124 runs. With the help of his innings, Sri Lanka scored 285 runs after losing 7 wickets. Mehdi Hasan Miraz and Tuscin Ahmed took 2-2 wickets from Bangladesh. Tanzim Hassan Sakib, Tanvir Islam and Shamim Hussain took 1-1 wickets.
Charith Aslanaka played 58 runs.
Bangladesh started bad Bangladesh had a very bad start when chasing the target of 286 runs. The team lost 2 wickets in just 20 runs. Tanzid Hassan Tamim was out with 17 runs and Najmul Hussein Shanta was out without opening an account. Then Pervez Hasan Emo added 42 runs with Tawhid Hridoy. Imon also returned to the pavilion with 28 runs.
Heart Fifty hit After losing 3 wickets for 62 runs, Tawhid Hridoy scored a fifty, but captain Mehdi Hassan Miraz was dismissed for 28 runs. Shamim Hussain was also able to score 12 runs. Hridoy also returned to the pavilion when the team's score was 153 runs.
Wicketkeeper Zakir Ali holds one end, but Tanzim Hassan Shakib was dismissed for 5 runs, Tuskin Ahmed was dismissed for 1 run and Tanvir Islam scored 8 runs. Finally, Zakir was also dismissed for 27 and the Bangladesh team was all out for 186 in 39.4 overs.
Asitha Fernando and Dushmantha Chamira took 3-3 wickets from Sri Lanka. Dunith Vellaage and Vanindu Hasranga got 2-2 wickets. Mahish Thikasana and Kamindu Mendis had no success.
The Bangladesh team was able to bat only 39.4 overs.
T20 Series from July 10 Sri Lanka won the series 2-1 by winning the first and third match of the ODI series. The team won the second match of the Test series and won the series 1-0, the first Test draw. A 3 T20 match will also start between the two in Pallekale from July 10.
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