Bangladesh bowlers roared back into action after Lunch on Day 4 of the Galle Test, ripping through Sri Lanka’s lower order to seize a slender 10-run first-innings lead today.
Hasan Mahmud started the slide in the third over of the session, removing Milan Rathnayake for 39 with a delivery that stayed low and dragged onto the stumps.
Just an over later, Nayeem Hasan delivered a beauty to dismiss the well-set Kamindu Mendis for 87 — a ball that drifted in, turned sharply, and bounced to find the outside edge, expertly pouched by Litton Das behind the stumps.
Nayeem capped off his spell with a bowled dismissal of last man Asitha Fernando, finishing with figures of five for 121 in 43.5 overs — his fourth five-wicket haul in Tests, and remarkably, his first-ever appearance in overseas conditions, seven years after making his Test debut.
