SL vs BAN – Janith Liyanage – ‘We by no means anticipated there to be such a lot dew’

Throughout the back-end of the sport, Najmul Hossain Shanto and Mushfiqur Rahim placed on a match-winning 165-run fifth-wicket stand, as Shanto completed with 122 no longer out and Musfhiqur 73 no longer out.

In opposition to the tip of the event, despite the fact that, the outfield used to be necessarily sodden. Sri Lanka didn’t take a wicket after the sixteenth over. Their bowlers have been visibly suffering with the quantity of moisture at the ball.

“We have been on most sensible at that second when it used to be 92 for 4,” Liyanage mentioned after the event. “We idea we had a in reality just right probability of profitable the sport. But if the dew got here into play it used to be in reality arduous for the bowlers to grip the ball. However they batted in reality neatly.

“Credit score to the Bangladesh staff the way in which they batted. Shanto performed extraordinarily neatly and, after all, Mushfiqur bhai additionally performed in reality neatly.”

Sri Lanka had, on the other hand, received the toss and selected to bat, regardless of the T20Is in Sylhet having been suffering from dew. “We by no means anticipated there to be such a lot dew,” used to be the rationale Liyanage gave for his staff’s batting first.

It’s also understood that the dew used to be a marvel to nearly everybody. There used to be no discernible dew over the previous couple of evenings in Chattogram, nor used to be there a lot dew right through the BPL.

It’s imaginable there was a shift within the climate in the previous couple of days throughout Bangladesh, with the hurricane season most likely shut by way of.

Even supposing the dew made Sri Lanka’s 255 tough to protect, Liyanage did admit that it used to be too gentle a complete, in particular after their openers had sped to 71 within 10 overs.

“We were given a in reality just right get started. Our opening batsmen performed in reality neatly. However after that Bangladesh took 3 fast wickets. Then we needed to rebuild.

“With the beginning we were given we can have were given 300 runs as of late. We have been a little upset about that.”