Michael Roberts
Though Sri Lanka had defeated Bangladesh in their first t20 encounter at Premadasa Stadium with a measure of comfort, well before the match I felt that Bangladesh would win the second. My reasoning was based on the news that this would be captain Mashrafe Mortaza’s last game under this format. It followed that Chandika Hathurasinghe and the coaching team would deploy this impending departure as a incentive for the players to perform out of their skin.
A reasonable surmise, Yes. but how does one measure the impact of t such a factor over the course of a match? and provide proof to sceptics? There is no easy answer. Even the eleven players of the Bangla team would be ahard-pressed to supply concrete proof.
After all, winning a match is usually based on a combination of factors and to weight the determination of all XI players to do their best as a decisive force that stands on the top of the list is a tall order.
Mortaza himself was out for a duck as one element in Lasith Malinga’s hat trick of wickets; while his bowling spell was as follows
| Mashrafe Mortaza | 4 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 7.50 | 8 | 3 | 0 |
So his personal contribution was largely as skipper ringing the bowling changes and geeing up his side as they fielded. Not unimportant that dimension, but how important? Victory in cricket is often a combined team effort …and in this match the key contributions were (A) the cracking opening partnership of 71 runs between Imrul Kayes and Soumya Sarkar, the performance with both bat and ball by Shakib al Hasan and the excellent bowling of Mustafizur Rahman.
Rahman celebrates a wicket ...
as does Shakib al Hasan
| Bangladesh innings (20 overs maximum) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
Imrul Kayes | run out (Tharanga/†MDKJ Perera) | 36 | 25 | 4 | 1 | 144.00 |
|
Soumya Sarkar | c & b Gunaratne | 34 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 200.00 |
|
Sabbir Rahman | b Sanjaya | 19 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 105.55 |
|
Shakib Al Hasan | b Kulasekara | 38 | 31 | 4 | 0 | 122.58 |
|
Mosaddek Hossain | b NLTC Perera | 17 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 154.54 |
| Mahmudullah | not out | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 80.00 | |
|
Mushfiqur Rahim† | b Malinga | 15 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 250.00 |
|
Mashrafe Mortaza* | b Malinga | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
|
Mehedi Hasan Miraz | lbw b Malinga | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
|
Mohammad Saifuddin | run out (Kulasekara) | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 120.00 |
| Extras | (lb 2, w 5) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets; 20 overs) | 176 | (8.80 runs per over) | ||||
Did not batMustafizur Rahman
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | 0s | 4s | 6s | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
SL Malinga | 4 | 0 | 34 | 3 | 8.50 | 10 | 4 | 1 | (1w) |
|
KMDN Kulasekara | 4 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 7.50 | 9 | 5 | 0 | |
| EMDY Munaweera | 2 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 11.00 | 4 | 2 | 1 | (3w) | |
|
JRMVB Sanjaya | 3 | 0 | 32 | 1 | 10.66 | 4 | 1 | 2 | (1w) |
|
DAS Gunaratne | 2 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 7.50 | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
| S Prasanna | 2 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 8.50 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
|
NLTC Perera | 3 | 0 | 24 | 1 | 8.00 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| Sri Lanka innings (target: 177 runs from 20 overs) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
MDKJ Perera† | b Shakib Al Hasan | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 200.00 |
|
EMDY Munaweera | c Mahmudullah b Shakib Al Hasan | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 133.33 |
|
WU Tharanga* | c Mehedi Hasan Miraz b Mahmudullah | 23 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 109.52 |
|
CK Kapugedera | c Mehedi Hasan Miraz b Mustafizur Rahman | 50 | 35 | 5 | 1 | 142.85 |
|
DAS Gunaratne | c Mosaddek Hossain b Mustafizur Rahman | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
|
TAM Siriwardana | c Soumya Sarkar b Mustafizur Rahman | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
|
NLTC Perera | st †Mushfiqur Rahim b Shakib Al Hasan | 27 | 23 | 3 | 0 | 117.39 |
|
S Prasanna | b Mashrafe Mortaza | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 |
| KMDN Kulasekara | not out | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 40.00 | |
|
SL Malinga | b Mustafizur Rahman | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
|
JRMVB Sanjaya | c Mahmudullah b Mohammad Saifuddin | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 200.00 |
| Extras | (lb 2, w 2) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (all out; 18 overs) | 131 | (7.27 runs per over) | ||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | 0s | 4s | 6s | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Shakib Al Hasan | 4 | 0 | 24 | 3 | 6.00 | 9 | 2 | 0 | (1w) |
|
Mashrafe Mortaza | 4 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 7.50 | 8 | 3 | 0 | |
| Mehedi Hasan Miraz | 2 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 7.50 | 4 | 2 | 0 | ||
|
Mahmudullah | 2 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 7.50 | 6 | 1 | 1 | |
|
Mustafizur Rahman | 3 | 0 | 21 | 4 | 7.00 | 9 | 3 | 0 | (1w) |
|
Mohammad Saifuddin | 3 | 0 | 24 | 1 | 8.00 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
MATCH DETAILS
Series – 2-match series drawn 1-1
Player of the match – Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh)
Player of the series – SL Malinga (Sri Lanka)
TV umpire – RR Wimalasiri
Match referee – AJ Pycroft (Zimbabwe)
Reserve umpire – WN de Silva
MATCH NOTES
- Bangladesh innings
- Powerplay: Overs 0.1 – 6.0 (Mandatory – 68 runs, 0 wicket)
- Bangladesh: 50 runs in 4.5 overs (29 balls), Extras 4
- 1st Wicket: 50 runs in 29 balls (Imrul Kayes 28, Soumya Sarkar 18, Ex 4)
- Bangladesh: 100 runs in 9.5 overs (59 balls), Extras 6
- Bangladesh: 150 runs in 16.5 overs (101 balls), Extras 7
- SL Malinga took a hat-trick with the wickets of Mushfiqur Rahim, Mashrafe Mortaza, Mehedi Hasan Miraz.
- Innings Break: Bangladesh – 176/9 in 20.0 overs (Mahmudullah 4)
- Sri Lanka innings
- Powerplay: Overs 0.1 – 6.0 (Mandatory – 47 runs, 5 wickets)
- Sri Lanka: 50 runs in 6.5 overs (41 balls), Extras 3
- 6th Wicket: 50 runs in 39 balls (CK Kapugedera 28, NLTC Perera 24, Ex 1)
- Sri Lanka: 100 runs in 13.2 overs (80 balls), Extras 3
- CK Kapugedera: 50 off 34 balls (5 x 4, 1 x 6)