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Thu Mar 2 - Fri Mar 3 10:00 local (04:30 GMT)
Bangladesh v Sri Lanka Cricket President's XI
De Zoysa Stadium, Moratuwa

Tue Mar 7 - Sat Mar 11 10:00 local (04:30 GMT)
1st Test - Sri Lanka v Bangladesh
Galle International Stadium

Wed Mar 15 - Sun Mar 19 10:00 local (04:30 GMT)
2nd Test - Sri Lanka v Bangladesh
P Sara Oval, Colombo

Wed Mar 22 (50 ovs)
TBC v Bangladesh
Venue TBC

Sat Mar 25 (50 ovs) 14:30 local (09:00 GMT)
1st ODI - Sri Lanka v Bangladesh
Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium

Tue Mar 28 (50 ovs) 14:30 local (09:00 GMT | 10:00 BST)
2nd ODI - Sri Lanka v Bangladesh
Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium

Sat Apr 1 (50 ovs) 09:30 local (04:00 GMT | 05:00 BST)
3rd ODI - Sri Lanka v Bangladesh
Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo

Tue Apr 4 (20 ovs) 19:00 local (13:30 GMT | 14:30 BST)
1st T20I - Sri Lanka v Bangladesh
R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Thu Apr 6 (20 ovs) 19:00 local (13:30 GMT | 14:30 BST)
2nd T20I - Sri Lanka v Bangladesh
R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Test squad Mushfiqur Rahim (c), Tamim Iqbal, Liton Das, Soumya Sarkar, Mominul Haque, Shakib Al Hasan, Mahmudullah, Sabbir Rahman, Mustafizur Rahman, Taijul Islam, Mehedi Hasan, Taskin Ahmed, Mosaddek Hossain, Kamrul Islam Rabbi, Subashis Roy, Rubel Hossain.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/sri-lanka-v ... 83592.html

Lanka squad: Rangana Herath (capt), Dinesh Chandimal (wk), Dimuth Karunaratne, Niroshan Dickwella, Upul Tharanga, Dhananjaya de Silva, Kusal Mendis, Asela Gunaratne, Suranga Lakmal, Lahiru Kumara, Nuwan Pradeep, Vikum Sanjaya, Dilruwan Perera, Lakshan Sandakan, Malinda Pushpakumara.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/sri-lanka-v ... 84677.html

Mushfiqur has been told he wont' be keeping in the tests, and he will be batting at 4.

SL batting. Mustafizur back for BD. Kusal approaching a ton.

Looks like a classing innings from Kusal mendis.
been a 2 man show so far.
mehedi being very expensive.
not sure why ban playing 5 bowlers or why they are reluctant to use mahmudullah as a 5th bowler.
surely it is a god send to them that mahmudullah get in the team as a batsman, so they can play 6-7-8 batsman if they wish to do so.

mendis was out for 0 first ball as well reprieved from a no ball.

Costly.

Four for Mehedi Hasan as SL pile on 594... 194 for Kusal.

Half-centuries from Tamim, Sarkar and Mushfiqur carried Bangladesh to 312 all out...follow-on avoided.

Tharanga gets his century!

Chandimal gets his half century and Sri Lanka declare. The target is 457.

Should be a fighting chance for BD to draw this.

Arthur Crabtree wrote:Should be a fighting chance for BD to draw this.

Or they might rather weakly give way.

Six for Herath and a very big win for SL. A bit disappointing from BD.

Mahmdullah dropped for 2nd test and will fly home, will be Bangladesh's 100th test

From the sides selected, looks like they're expecting help for the spinners.

Good start for BD.

Chandimal holding the batting together with 86 not out.