DHAKA: Skipper Kusal Perera struck 120 and Dushmantha Chameera took five wickets as Sri Lanka thrashed Bangladesh by 97 runs to get a consolation win at the next loaf global on Friday.
Perera’s first time ODI century and also an unbeaten 55 from Dhananjaya p Silva directed Sri Lanka to 286-6, a complete they defended from bowling outside Bangladesh for 189 at 42.
3 overs at Dhaka.
The hosts won the series 2-1.
Chameera maintained his eponymous five-wicket ODI haul figures of 5-16 out of his nine overs to assist Sri Lanka finish a streak of five consecutive 50-over losses.
Bangladesh, that won the first two games, never seemed aggressive after Chameera’s three-wicket burst from the opening bout decreased them to 28-3.
Mahmudullah Riyad top-scored using 53 while Mosaddek Hossain left 51 off 72 balls.
Debutant Ramesh Mendis maintained 2-40 along with leg-spinner Wanindu Hasaranga played his role also picking up two wickets.
Chameera was named player of the game while Bangladesh’s Mushfiqur Rahim, that scored 237 conducts such as a century at 3 innings, was named player of the collection.
“We needed a win badly, but we lost the show,” said Perera.
“We had to find the huge scores and that is why I shifted gears.
Our bowling division did a great job.
Fielding was good.
” The left handed Perera, who shot more than Dimuth Karunaratne as captain within this show, previously smashed 11 fours and one six in his own 122-ball knock to prepare the win.
But he had been dropped 66, 79 and 99 prior to being disregarded by teenaged left-arm fast Shoriful Islam.
Mahmudullah took a nice catch at long-on later he fell the opener run away out of his century.
Perera and Danushka Gunathilaka wear 82 runs for the first wicket to put the bases of the complete until quick bowler Taskin Ahmed took three wickets.
Taskin bowled Gunathilaka for both 39 and’d Pathum Nissanka captured by Mushfiqur to get a duck in the same time.
Perera shared two important ventures of 69 runs and 65 to its fourth and third wicket respectively together with Kusal Mendis (22) and De Silva to reconstruct the Sri Lankan innings.
Bangladesh did well in the past ten overs, giving off only 69 runs to look at the batting spike.
“As I mentioned in the previous match, we’ve won the show but I never believed that we played with the comprehensive game.
Never played with our potential,” explained Bangladesh captain Tamim Iqbal.
“When chance came (now )we did not take our grabs.
If we’d taken those, might have been perhaps 30 runs ” Taskin, among two modifications for Bangladesh from the game, ended with figures of 4-46.