{"id":3494,"date":"2025-06-19T12:45:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T07:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=3494"},"modified":"2025-06-19T15:28:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:28:36","slug":"bangladesh-dominate-day-two-of-galle-test-against-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2025\/06\/19\/bangladesh-dominate-day-two-of-galle-test-against-sri-lanka","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh Dominate Day Two of Galle Test Against Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"65\" data-end=\"448\"><strong>ISLAMABAD: Bangladesh strengthened their hold over the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle on Wednesday, posting an imposing 484-9 by stumps on day two.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"65\" data-end=\"448\">Resuming from their overnight total of 292-3, the visitors built on their advantage with a clinical batting display led by Mushfiqur Rahim and Najmul Hossain Shanto, who tormented the home side with a record partnership.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"450\" data-end=\"500\">Mushfiqur and Shanto Power Bangladesh&#8217;s Charge<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"502\" data-end=\"1007\">Mushfiqur Rahim crafted a marathon 163 off 350 balls, his innings featuring patience, technique, and resilience.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"502\" data-end=\"1007\">Shanto added a fluent 148, laced with 15 boundaries and a six, before falling to some clever flight.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"502\" data-end=\"1007\">Their 264-run partnership laid the foundation for Bangladesh\u2019s massive total, with Litton Das adding further damage with a quickfire 90 off 123 balls.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"502\" data-end=\"1007\">Das capitalized on some ragged fielding, including a dropped catch and a near run-out, before perishing to a reverse sweep gone wrong.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1009\" data-end=\"1285\">Despite a few late wickets, Sri Lanka\u2019s bowlers toiled on what fast bowler Milan Rathnayake called \u201cone of the flattest wickets we\u2019ve seen in Galle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1009\" data-end=\"1285\">However, he credited the team for showing composure after tea, which led to five breakthroughs and prevented further damage.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"1287\" data-end=\"1317\">Rain, Light Cut Short Play<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"1319\" data-end=\"1766\">Only 61 overs were bowled on day two, as rain forced an early tea and bad light ended play prematurely.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1319\" data-end=\"1766\">Day three is expected to begin 15 minutes earlier to make up for lost time.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1319\" data-end=\"1766\">Bangladesh\u2019s batting coach Mohammad Salahuddin praised the batsmen\u2019s \u201ccharacter\u201d and expressed hope that the bowlers could now capitalize on the scoreboard pressure.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1319\" data-end=\"1766\">With nearly 500 runs on the board, Bangladesh will aim to seize full control when play resumes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Bangladesh strengthened their hold over the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle on Wednesday, posting an imposing 484-9 by stumps on day two. Resuming from their overnight total of 292-3, the visitors built on their advantage with a clinical batting display led by Mushfiqur Rahim and Najmul Hossain Shanto, who tormented the home &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[889,32,1722],"class_list":["post-3494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-bangladesh","tag-cricket","tag-galle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3495,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions\/3495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}