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Dhaka: Sri Lanka may have won the first two games of the tri-series, but there has been another winner. The heavy dew that falls at the ground in the evenings has made the equation for these games quite simple: win toss, choose to field and chase down any score.
At 226 for five in the 44th over on Tuesday, India sniffed a chance to hold Sri Lanka off. But in less than five overs, the game was done and dusted.
India's seamers failed to control the ball as the dew got heavier by conceding boundaries and establishing once again that bowling under lights at this ground is like trying to control a bar of soap.
"We can request to have an early start, that's one thing we can do. But if you have to play, then you have to come up with something different. But it is very difficult for spinners to grip the ball," MS Dhoni said after India's defeat to Sri Lanka on Tuesday.
In this case Dhoni can't even be dismissed as a visiting captain making excuses after his team's defeat. Because on the day before, after his team were beaten, the Bangladesh captain was quite vocal in his criticism of the playing conditions.
"When we started bowling there was dew already on the ground. So it was very hard for us to grip the ball," said Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan.
The Sri Lankans who have been lucky enough to call the coin right in both their matches are a worried lot too, realising the coin won't always fall in their favour.
"Unfortunately the tour has been arranged in a way that they are all day/night games with a 2.30 pm start. So one side is always going to be at a disadvantage," Sri Lanka skipper Kumar Sangakkara said.
So is there a solution? The locals think so.
"In this situation it would be better to begin the games two hours early. I don't think anyone would object to it. At least the competition would be fair for both sides," suggested former Bangladesh captain Habibul Bashar.
With five games left in the series and the players clearly on one end of the divide, will the organisers bring the games forward, or stick to the demands of prime time television? That may end up reducing this series to a farce.
