Mominul stars as Bangladesh eke out draw

Mominul Haque, for the second time in the Test, featured his side's protection against Sri Lanka with one more century, turning into the primary Bangladesh player to have twin hundreds of years in a Test as the principal round of the two-coordinate arrangement finished in a draw. Bangladesh batted out three sessions on the fifth and last day on Sunday (February 4) to guarantee a draw, completing with 307 for 5 when the chiefs chose to shake hands with the amusement just headed one path in Chittagong.

Mominul, who was in the end named the Man of the Match, turned into Bangladesh's first batsman to have scored the most number of keeps running in a Test with a 176 in the principal innings, trailed by 105 in the second. He, alongside Liton Das, opposed Sri Lanka's assault on the way a 180-run remain in the second innings just to in the long run fall in the space of five overs of each different as a fairly brazen Mahmudullah went to the center. His nerves crashed a somewhat formed Das to play a poor shot to fall six runs shy of his own century after Mominul's wicket. Mahmudullah had what's coming to him of fortunes right on time into the innings with some mishits missing the mark regarding the Sri Lankan defenders.

Continuing the last session, Bangladesh's remain in captain and Mosaddek Hossain took as much time as necessary and kept Sri Lanka under control while broadening the lead which went past 100. Be that as it may, with a draw being fast approaching, it was put to an end with 1533 scored crosswise over five days for only 24 wickets.

Mominul and Das began the day under strain after the hosts lost three wickets last night before stumps were drawn. The match effectively figured out how to nullify Sri Lanka's assault with positive plan in the principal session, where they lost no wickets, on a surface that helped the batsmen to beat the 200-run lead that Sri Lanka had before their statement yesterday. The weight was on them to play out the day to maintain a strategic distance from an annihilation and the match made an incredible begin towards that undertaking, quickening in stages, going for their shots yet in addition keeping the scoreboard ticking generally, in what was a splendid blend of alert and hostility.

Sri Lanka's slower bowlers could extricate a touch of turn, however it wasn't anything that represented a danger to the Bangladesh batsmen in essence. They attempted various things, which were altogether nullified by the wicket that still stayed valid for batting, as has been the situation all Test with its gradualness. Bangladesh will go into the following Test with an ethical edge given their brilliant recuperation on Day 5, while Sri Lanka can take comfort from the way that it was hard being a bowler on this wicket.

The second Test will start on February 8 in Dhaka.

Brief scores: Bangladesh 513 & 307/5 (Tamim Iqbal 41, Mominul Haque 105, Liton Das 94; Rangana Herath 2-80) drew with Sri Lanka 713/9 decl. (Dhananjaya de Silva 173, Kusal Mendis 196, Roshen Silva 109, Dinesh Chandimal 87, Niroshan Dickwella 62; Mehidy Hasan 3-174, Taijul Islam 4-219).