Kusal Mendis Smashed His Sixth Odi Hundred and LED Sri Lanka to a Commanding 99-R Victory in the Third and Final One Day International as the Home TEAM CLINCHED THE SERIES 2-1.
Mendis Marshaled Sri Lanka to 285 for Seven with An Aggressive 124 off 114 Balls after Captain Charith Asalanka Won the Toss and Elected to Bat.
The Bangladeshi Batters Struggled Against The Pace of Dushmantha Chamera and Asitha Fernando, Who Shared Six Six Wickets Between them to Bowl Out the Visitors for 186 and Give Sri Lanka An Eighth Successive Win in a home Odi series.
Fernando Clean Bowled Tanzid Hasan (17) with a Searing Yorker in the C one’s Over of the Chase and Najmul Hossain Shanto then deflected Chamera’s Incoming Delivery Back Onto The top of the stumps for Nought as the Visitors Slipped to 2-20.
Sri Lanka’s Middle-Order Struggled Against The Spin as Dunith Wellage (2-33) and Wanindu Hasaranga (2-35) Struck with Regular intervals and the Bangladeshi Batters ALSO COUP SOP SOP SOP SOP Partnerships.
Towhid Hridoy (51) Made a Fighting Half Century Off 78 Balls Before Chamera Returned and Knocked Back The Stumps with Another Superb Inswinger and Fernando Varied His Pace to Pace to perfection flows to percent Talenders to wrap up the game.
Earlier, Mendis Marshaled Sri Lanka to a Strong Total and Togeether with Asalanka Shared a Strong 124-Run Fourth-Health Stand.
Mendis was strong on the leg side and smashed 18 fours in his culture as he punished anything pithed short with his short-arm jab pull shots which sweping the spinners to perfection.
“My batting coach said that if i score we will win,” Mendis said. “I played a different game in the last match, but today my normal game after speaking to the coach. The pitch was a little slow, but it came on better on.”
Bangladesh Had Kept Sri Lanka in Check at Three for 100 in 21 Overs Before Mendis and Asalanka Took Charge. Sri Lanka Looked Set to get past Past the 300-R Mark but Bangladesh Came Back Well in the last 10 overs.
Asalanka, who made 58 off 68 balls, holed out in the deep in the deep in the 41st over when he missed out on a low full toss of fast bowler taskin ahmed.
Mendis fell in the 46th over as he top-edged a short ball from shamim hossain, who grabbed a catch over his shoulder. Ahmed Finished with two for 51 and Mehidy Hasan Miraz Took two for 48.
“We Didn’T Get Partnerships in the Middle, and from the Openers,” Bangladesh Captain Miraz Said. “That was the problem for us.
Both teams will now compe in a three-match t20 series, starting from Thursday.
