Sri Lanka rip through Bangladesh top order

Sri Lanka bowlers Chaminda Vaas and Muttiah Muralitharan took two wickets apiece to leave hosts Bangladesh struggling on 95 for four at tea on the second day of the first test on Saturday.

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Replying to Sri Lanka's first innings total of 293, Bangladesh made a confident start with the opening stand of 44 before Muralitharan made the vital breakthrough with his second delivery of the match.

Tamim Iqbal was caught at forward short-leg by Malinda Warnapura for 17 before Vaas had Imrul Kayes caught behind after the 21-year-old opener had made a test-best 33.

Bangladesh skipper Mohammad Ashraful became Vaas's 350th test victim when the left-arm paceman had him caught by a diving Tillakaratne Dilshan at cover to make it 90-3.

Six overs later, Muralitharan heaped more misery on the hosts shortly before the interval when he bowled Zunaed Siddique for 29.

Earlier, Shakib Al Hasan completed his fourth five-wicket haul in five matches to help Bangladesh dismiss Sri Lanka for less than 300.

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 on the stroke of lunch.

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 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 Siddique in the next over to close out the innings and return figures of 5-70.

- Day 1 report

Teams:

Bangladesh: Tamim Iqbal, Junaid Siddique, Mohammad Ashraful (capt), Rajin Saleh, Mehrab Hossain jnr, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Shakib Al Hasan, Mashrafe Mortaza, Abdur Razzak, Shahadat Hossain, Mahbubul Alam

Sri Lanka: BSM Warnapura, MG Vandort, KC Sangakkara (wk), DPMD Jayawardene (capt), HAPW Jayawardene, TM Dilshan, TT Samaraweera, KMDN Kulasekara, WPUJC Vaas, KTGD Prasad, M Muralitharan