MOMENTS
MUSHFIQUR PULLS IT BACK
Bangladesh skipper Mashrafe Bin Mortaza had said before the match that they needed to play the near flawless game that won them the first ODI if they were to win the series in the second match. Those words sounded very hollow when, off the fifth ball of the match, Mustafizur Rahman misfielded on the third man fence to allow a four to slip through off a bowler none other than his skipper.
But in Mashrafe's next over Bangladesh's standards seemed to have been brought back up by Mushfiqur Rahim. Danushka Gunathilaka was trying to hit every ball, and soon top-edged a hook off a slower bouncer bowled by the wily pacer. The ball went high up and was swirling away, but Mushfiqur, staring into the afternoon sun, called for it and ran from his wicketkeeping position all the way past short fine leg to complete a fine diving catch.
MUSHFIQUR LETS IT GO
Soon, however, things took a downward turn again. In the 12th over with eventual centurion Kusal Mendis batting on seven, an edge off Mustafizur Rahman went straight between two fielders, Mushfiqur and Mahmudullah Riyad. Mahmudullah was positioned at a very wide first slip, in other words a second slip, and neither he nor Mushfiqur moved as the ball shot through at catchable height towards the third man fence. Since Mushfiqur was the man wearing the gloves, he is probably the one who should have gone for the catch.
DHAKAR POLA DOES IT
The DJ in Dambulla who happens to sit in the press box, played a snippet of Bangla song 'Dhakar Pola' midway through Sri Lanka's innings yesterday, supposedly at the behest of some Bangladeshi nearby who had furnished him with the popular number. Part of the reason the song is so popular is because Taskin Ahmed had danced on stage to the song during a function in Bangladesh not so long ago, and the video went viral on social media. One need look no further for the inspiration for the pacer's hattrick an hour or so later.
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