SL v Ban: Sri Lanka Vs Bangladesh 1st Test Live Score card, Mar 8-12, 2013

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Published on: Mar 12, 2013

Ban tour of SL 2013, 1st Test Live Score card: Sri Lanka Vs Bangladesh at Galle, Mar 8-12, 2013. Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat first.

Bangladesh tour of Sri Lanka 2013, 1st Test Live Score card: Sri Lanka Vs Bangladesh at Galle, Mar 8-12, 2013.

Series: Bangladesh tour of Sri Lanka 2013

Teams: Sri Lanka Vs Bangladesh

Venue: Played at Galle International Stadium

Match Type: Test match - (5-day match)

Time: 04:30 GMT | 10:00 AM IST

Toss: Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat first

Sri Lanka: 570/4(134.6) & 335/4(82.6)

Bangladesh: 638/10(195.6) & 70/1(21.6)

Match drawn

Mushfiqur Rahim is the Man of the Match for his maiden 200 off 321 balls.

Full Scorecard

1613 runs were scored in 436 overs for loss of 19 wkts in Galle Test- second highest run-producing Test in the subcontinent.

Five centuries were scored for SL in this Test, equaling world record. Australia, Pakistan & Eng are other team to hit 5 ton in a Test.

Eight 100s scored in the Galle Test, equaling the world record. Had happened only once before - WI vs SA Test at St.John's in 2005.

Maiden Test 100 for Nasir Hossain - this is the first time three Bangladesh batsman hits centuries in a same Test innings.

Mushfiqur Rahim is only the 2nd visiting captain after Stephen Fleming (274* Colombo, PSS 2003) to hit a double-century in Sri Lanka.

Bangladesh 546/5* at Galle is their 2nd highest total in Tests after 556 v WI at Mirpur on Nov12 (Ban had lost the Test by 77 runs).

267-run stand b/w Ashraful-Mushfiqur is 2nd-highest stand for visiting in SL. Highest remain Azhar-Hafeez (287 at SSC 2012).

Mohammad Ashraful celebrates his Test comeback with a century. His fifth against Sri Lanka.

Kumar Sangakkar reaches to his 31st Test century - jointly the most (with Mahela Jayawardene) for Sri Lanka in Tests.

Kumar Sangakkara (1018) is the first batsman to score 1000 Test runs against Bangladesh.

Among the 11 batsmen with 10000 Test runs, Sangakkara' ave 56.28 is the best, followed by Kallis (56.10), Tendulkar (54.29).

Kumar Sangakkara has moved into No 10 position in the list of highest run scorers in Tests.

Sangakkara gets to his 42nd Test fifty in his career.

Sri Lanka and Bangladesh have played 12 Test, SL won all, 7 of those by innings margin.

Vithanage to debut for Sri Lanka. Tamim Iqbal misses out for Bangladesh due to his wrist injury.

Thilan Samaraweera continues to be out of the SL Test team. Jayawardene is out injured. All other top players picked.

Sri Lanka Playing XI: Tillakaratne Dilshan, Dimuth Karunaratne, Kumar Sangakkara, Lahiru Thirimanne, Kithuruwan Vithanage, Angelo Mathews (c), Dinesh Chandimal (wk), Nuwan Kulasekara, Rangana Herath, Shaminda Eranga, Ajantha Mendis

Bangladesh Playing XI: Anamul Haque, Jahurul Islam, Mohammad Ashraful, Mahmudullah, Mushfiqur Rahim (c) (wk), Nasir Hossain, Mominul Haque, Abul Hasan, Sohag Gazi, Elias Sunny, Shahadat Hossain

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