{"id":154663,"date":"2025-06-28T08:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T08:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=154663"},"modified":"2025-06-28T08:24:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T08:24:36","slug":"nayeem-secures-5-wicket-haul-at-galle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/nayeem-secures-5-wicket-haul-at-galle\/","title":{"rendered":"Nayeem Secures 5-Wicket Haul at Galle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nayeem Secures 5-Wicket Haul at Galle<\/span><\/h2>\n

Source:<\/span><\/strong>Thuppahis<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Madushka Balasuriya in ESPNcricinfo, 20 June 2025 \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/strong>In article entitled\u00a0\u201cShanto, Shadman stretch Bangladesh\u2019s lead after Nayeem\u2019s five-for\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sri Lanka and Bangladesh ran each other neck and neck all day, with Bangladesh now 187 runs ahead<\/span><\/p>\n

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Najmul Hossain Shanto reached fifty close to stumps\u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0\u00a0Associated Press<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

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Bangladesh<\/b>\u00a0495 and 177 for 3 (Shanto 56, Mushfiqur 22*, Shadman 76, Jayasuriya 1-48) lead\u00a0Sri Lanka<\/b>\u00a0485 (Nissanka 187, Kamindu 87, Nayeem 5-121, Mahmud 3-74) by 187 runs<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
After a day-long tug of war, where\u00a0Sri Lanka<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Bangladesh<\/a>\u00a0ran each other neck and neck, the first Test will go into day five in Galle no closer to knowing which of these sides has the edge necessary to convert a likely draw into an improbable win.<\/span><\/div>\n
At stumps, Bangladesh lead by 187 runs with seven wickets in hand, and\u00a0Najmul Hossain Shanto<\/a>\u00a0and Mushfiqur Rahim \u2013 both first innings centurions \u2013 are at the crease. By all intents and purposes, this should mean Bangladesh are comfortably in control \u2013 and they are\u2026kind of.<\/span><\/div>\n
The thing with Galle is that one tends to bring many, and there have been periods in this game where batters seemed like they could bat for days, only for that to be followed by spells where wickets fell in clusters.<\/span><\/div>\n
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This happened on the first morning, and then again on the second evening, Bangladesh losing eight wickets for 94 runs on either side of two massive partnerships worth 401 in total. Sri Lanka meanwhile seemed immune to collapses, stitching together a string of solid stands across their first innings, until this morning when they lost two wickets in the space of the first hour, and then four more in 45 minutes after lunch.<\/span><\/div>\n
It meant that a day that had started with Sri Lanka eyeing a cheeky lead in the hope of putting Bangladesh into bat on a day five Galle surface, and maybe, possibly, perhaps instigating a final-day collapse, ended with them being bowled out for 10 runs short of Bangladesh\u2019s 495.<\/span><\/div>\n
It also meant that Bangladesh now control where this Test heads. A lead of 300 would seem like a minimum requirement, but they will also want to give themselves enough time to bowl Sri Lanka out \u2013 two sessions seems like the absolute minimum requirement.<\/span><\/div>\n
But to get to such an eventuality, they might need to score at a quicker rate tomorrow morning than they have all game \u2013 but that of course means they would have to risk getting dismissed for far less than that (please refer to the bit about collapses).<\/span><\/div>\n
As things stand, the Bangladesh batters have handled the Sri Lanka spinners and a steadily deteriorating Galle surface admirably. The delivery to dismiss Anamul Haque spun and bounced off the rough, while\u00a0Shadman Islam<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 following an assured 76 off 126 \u2013 had a Milan Ratnayake seamer jag back sharply from outside off to trap him plumb in front.<\/span><\/div>\n
But in between, both Shadman and Shanto used the depth of the crease expertly. When going back, they went right back, and when coming forward they did so with gusto. Sri Lanka\u2019s spinners for their part were perhaps guilty of a little impatience, not sticking long and persistently enough to those nagging lines around off.<\/span><\/div>\n