Jayawardene and his other front-line batsmen Sanath Jayasuriya and Kumar Sangakkara all were dismissed cheaply to give Bangladesh an upper hand in the first match but the home captain said that they are determined to come back in the second game strongly to secure the series quite convincingly.

"Our main target is to wrap up the series with one match in hand. We will not make the same mistakes in our batting. We realised after the game that we need some fine tunings and we believe that we can rectify those mistakes," said the confident right-hander while talking to reporters at the R Premadasa Stadium yesterday.

"It was the beauty of Sri Lanka cricket the way some of our guys took responsibility on their shoulders after a hiccup in the top order. It was a rare thing that three top batsmen failed simultaneously in a match and I hope it will not happen again," he added when he was asked whether Bangladesh had missed an opportunity to draw the first blood in the series.

The successful Sri Lanka skipper also said that they were hardly bothered with the one-sided contest in the series because their main objective is to improve their own performance.

"We want to continue playing to our potential, which is our main goal, and that is the reason we don't think about who our opponents are. We are focusing only on our own game. We struggled in the first 20 overs in the first game and that's why we have worked on this area to play much better in the second game," he said.

He said that his side were aware of Bangladesh's weakness and strength.

"We know how we can penetrate Bangladesh because we realise the areas. Bangladesh lost the match not because they batted poorly rather our bowlers also put pressure on them and you should give credit to our bowlers. I will definitely try to put pressure on them from the very beginning."

He also threw a challenge to Tamim Iqbal to play his natural game against them following a lot of talks about the left-hander's big hitting ability since the World Cup.

"I would love to see him playing his natural game but the reality is that it would not be so easy against a quality bowling attack like us. He played brilliantly against India but found it difficult against us in the World Cup. Why, because of our quality bowling," he added.