Cricket-Shakib claims five wickets to dismiss Sri Lanka for 293

DHAKA, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Shakib Al Hasan completed his fourth five-wicket haul in five matches to help Bangladesh dismiss Sri Lanka for 293 runs on the stroke of lunch on the second day of the first test on Saturday.

Resuming on their overnight score of 172-6, Thilan Samaraweera led a lower-order recovery for the visitors with 90 off 141 balls before Bangladesh struck back to restrict Sri Lanka to less than 300 first innings runs.

Samaraweera, who reached his 16th test half-century by pushing a full length Mehrab Hossain delivery to the cover area for a single, shared 99 runs with Chaminda Vaas for the seventh wicket as Sri Lanka grew in confidence.

However, the second new ball helped Bangladesh gain their first success of the morning after the duo had batted brilliantly and the rest of the tail succumbed rather quickly.

Vaas edged Mashrafe Mortaza to wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim on 37 before Shakib trapped Dammika Parasad lbw for three to leave the visitors on 285-8.

Rangana Herath was then run out for one before Shakib had Samaraweera caught by Zunaed Siddique in the next over to close out the innings and return figures of 5-70. (Reporting by Azad Majumder; Editing by John O'Brien)