Bangladeshi captain, Hossain Shanto, was in good shape with a bat when he scored his second century during the opening test against Sri Lanka in Galle on Saturday 21st June. In the first shifts he scored the century and raised 148 runs in the first exchange of the match.
Shanto, who came to the bat on 4th day, stayed until the end of the game, undefeated 56. On the last day he took the game and played quite aggressively to give his party a sufficiently big lead to win in the last section.
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The rain was played by CoiPlesport in the afternoon, resulting in a loss of four hours of play. As soon as they returned to the playground, Shanto, who was at 90, reached a triple milestone, his seventh in the longest format. When Bangladesh ended with a lead of 295 runs.
In 2024 he had previously achieved this performance for the first time against Afghanistan in Mirpur and won 146 and 124. Overall, the 96 is the dough that has achieved. Among the Bangladesh crickets is also the second man who scored twins, the first was Mominul Haque during the 2018 test against Sri Lanka.
Among the doughs that recorded several instances of twins hundreds are 13th, which recorded performance. He joins legendary names such as Rahul Dravid, Sunil Gavascar, David Warner and many others to imitate this record.
Bangladesh launched a campaign of his World Cup (2025-2027) with a draw after Sri Lanka managed to keep his nerves on the last day.
Angelo Mathews that plays its last TesT, was unable to influence when it fell on only 8 runs in the 20th place.
However, visitors had their chances because they take goals quite often. On their go-to spinner they took Islam, who took three goals when he got into a considerable turn and used the conditions well.
Published:
Amar Pancker
Published on:
June 21, 2025
