Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka, 1st T20I - Live Cricket Score, Commentary
Series: Sri Lanka tour of Bangladesh, 2018 Venue: Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka Date & Time: Feb 15, 05:00 PM LOCAL
Kusal Mendis 53(27)
7.5
Afif Hossain to Kusal Mendis, out Caught by Soumya Sarkar!! One shot too many for Kusal Mendis. Looking for more big runs, and falls for the cause. But was it necessary? That was a ballooned up delivery and the batsman went the aerial route to locate the man at long-off to precision. Bangladesh net the big fish. Kusal Mendis c Soumya Sarkar b Afif Hossain 53(27) [4s-8 6s-2]
7.4
Afif Hossain to Tharanga, 1 run, the inner half of the blade makes contact and the ball dribbles away to long-on
7.2
Afif Hossain to Kusal Mendis, SIX, beefed away courtesy a slog sweep and that sails over cow corner! That brings up the fifty for Mendis as well. This has been a blitzkrieg from him
7.2
Afif Hossain to Kusal Mendis, wide, ushers in a quick delivery down leg and that has been wided as the batsman misses the sweep
7.1
Afif Hossain to Kusal Mendis, FOUR, the cramping lines from round the wicket. Mendis leans out, whipping it uppishly, checking it as he does so. Mid-wicket runs back, and so does long-on. The ball beats either
6.6
Nazmul Islam to Kusal Mendis, 1 run, on a knee, swinging the bat, to mid-wicket
6.5
Nazmul Islam to Kusal Mendis, no run, dances, finds himself yorking himself, and settles to give Islam a moral victory
6.4
Nazmul Islam to Tharanga, leg byes, 1 run, tries distracting the batsmen with his appeal. Surely when the impact too was down leg. On the boot, but they sneak through the ricochet
6.2
Nazmul Islam to Kusal Mendis, SIX, the horrors of a drag down. Mendis amplifies it with his rock back deep into the crease. And then what - the pull, violent and into cow corner
6.1
Nazmul Islam to Tharanga, 1 run, airy sweep. The leg-lines help him too. One-bounced to the man behind square
5.4
Mustafizur to Kusal Mendis, no run, corrects, denies room for a change, gets the length fuller too for a change. Bunted back
5.3
Mustafizur to Kusal Mendis, FOUR, the off-cutter lacking fizz. Lacking steam. And Mendis gets his stride out, full-facing it..up and over the covers
5.2
Mustafizur to Kusal Mendis, FOUR, now a line up, then high elbows, a spanking blade and punches it through the covers. That's some welcome
5.1
Mustafizur to Kusal Mendis, FOUR, gentle loosener to start with. Full, wide and Mendis opens up his bat face, steering it behind point
4.6
Nazmul Islam to Tharanga, no run, leading edge, checking his shot, ballooning back past the pitch
4.3
Nazmul Islam to Kusal Mendis, FOUR, on the dance, right to the pitch of it and with mid-on in the circle, Mendis was always going to tonk it down. Forget the lack of timing, there's enough meat to trickle it into the fence
4.2
Nazmul Islam to Gunathilaka, 1 run, an angry swivel. Far too short a length this, but Gunathilaka picks out deep square leg with his heave
3.5
Rubel to Kusal Mendis, FOUR, oh these deft innovations. Mendis spots the length short, moves away, sits and swipes his bat, horizontally with the bat face upwards in ramping it over the keeper
3.4
Rubel to Gunathilaka, 1 run, jammed out to mid-on, wide of him rather
2.3
Mahmudullah to Kusal Mendis, no run, ugly. Plays for the turn, plays for the angle, when there's neither. Beaten on the slog
2.2
Mahmudullah to Kusal Mendis, no run, full, outside off and a whippy off-drive. Finds mid-off
2.1
Mahmudullah to Gunathilaka, 1 run, some grip in turning away, Gunathilaka waits, opens up his checked defence and taps it to point to sneak through. Mendis is in the firing line, he dives and the shy is on his calf..flush
1.1
Saifuddin to Kusal Mendis, FOUR, length, too straight and Mendis goes uppish, in his arc clearing mid-wicket. And that's all he had to do, the powerplay does the rest
0.6
Nazmul Islam to Kusal Mendis, 1 run, shuffle, takes it off his tummy in helping it with the angle towards square leg
0.5
Nazmul Islam to Gunathilaka, 1 run, leans low, on top of the ball to wrist it out to long-on
0.3
Nazmul Islam to Kusal Mendis, no run, dance, yorks himself in the process. And drills it back
0.3
Nazmul Islam to Kusal Mendis, wide, fired down leg. And it just doesn't turn back in
0.2
Nazmul Islam to Kusal Mendis, FOUR, late. Oh so very late. Picks it out of Mushy's gloves, going deep in the crease and using all of Islam's pace for help to dab it through the cordon
0.1
Nazmul Islam to Kusal Mendis, no run, quick on middle. Mendis checks his wristy push to mid-wicket, and Gunathilaka takes off..the throw's at the wrong end eventually
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