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Bangladesh 277 for 5 (Litton 135*, Mushfiqur 115*, Rajitha 3-43, Fernando 2-80) vs Sri Lanka
Dhaka: After getting the team off to a dream start with the ball, Sri Lanka bowlers were made to toil for the rest of the day by Liton Das and Mushfiqur Rahim in Dhaka.
Bangladesh recovered brilliantly after a horrid start and finished the day at 277/5, thanks to unbeaten tons from Liton Das (135*) and Mushfiqur Rahim (115*).
Seven overs into the game, Bangladesh's decision to bat first after winning the toss seemed like a questionable one after they lost half their side for just 24 runs.
It looked like Sri Lanka were going to wrap the innings up quickly before Das and Rahim displayed tremendous grit to not give a wicket away for the rest of the day.
At stumps, their partnership was worth 253, the highest sixth-wicket partnership for Bangladesh in Test cricket.
Kasun Rajitha drew first blood on the second ball of the match, sneaking through the gap between Mahmudul Hasan Joy's bat and pad to disturb the stumps for a duck.
Fellow opener Tamim Iqbal followed him back to the hut in the next over without troubling the scorers, with Asitha Fernando getting in on the act thanks to a great diving catch from Praveen Jayawickrama.
Skipper Mominul Haque responded with two boundaries but was guilty of hanging his bat to Fernando.
Rajitha was on a hattrick in his fourth over after back-to-back wickets of Najmul Hossain Shanto and Shakib Al Hasan, the latter departing for a duck – the third of Bangladesh's innings.
Das dealt with the hattrick ball and thus began Bangladesh's day-long resistance against the Sri Lankan bowlers.
Though both the batters were cautious in their approach, they found boundaries every now and then to keep the scoreboard ticking.
Together they took Bangladesh to lunch at 66/5.
They started the second session in a lot more positive manner, smashing three boundaries in the first four overs.
After taking Ramesh Mendis out of the attack with ten runs in the first over, Das and Rahim blunted the spin of Jayawickrama, forcing Sri Lanka skipper Dimuth Karunaratne to bring his pacers back on.
The 20-plus over ball did not offer any help to the pacers as the batting duo continued to accumulate runs.
Das got a reprieve when he was dropped by substitute Kamindu Mendis after falling for Fernando's short-ball trap. He made full use of the lifeline, getting to his fifty with a boundary in the same over.
Rahim too followed suit a few overs later, getting to his milestone with a four.
Bangladesh added 87 runs in total in the second session and went unscathed into tea at 153/5.
The pair continued to pile on the misery, with Sri Lanka running out of ideas to get rid of the set batters.
After a few quiet overs to begin the third session, Das exploded with three boundaries against Jayawickrama, taking him to the nineties. He soon brought up his third Test ton in 149 balls.
