Bangladesh paceman Shoriful Islam grabbed eyeballs together with his celebration after taking the wicket of Avishka Fernando within the first T20I match at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium, Sylhet. Islam taunted the Sri Lankan group particularly Angelo Mathews together with his ‘timed-out’ celebration after getting the higher of Fernando.
Shoriful Islam taunts Sri Lankan group with ‘timed-out’ celebration
The taunting celebration re-ignited the rivalry between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh which was fired up in the course of the 2023 ODI World Cup when Mathews grew to become the primary participant to get timed out in cricket historical past.
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Meanwhile, Fernando who’s going via a tough patch, failed to attain large on Monday and was dismissed for 4. Shoriful pitched it full exterior off because the Sri Lankan opener drove it however solely managed to edge it as Litton Das’ grabbed it cleanly to finish his keep within the center.
Shoriful’s celebration took the cricket followers again to the ODI World Cup as he added salt to Sri Lanka’s previous wounds with the ‘timed-out’ taunt.
Earlier, within the high-octane WC match at Arun Jaitley Stadium, Mathews didn’t take strike throughout the stipulated time of two minutes following the dismissal of Sadeera Samarawickrama as Bangladesh skipper Shakib al Hasan appealed for a wicket. The umpire checked with the third umpire and gave him out as he was late to take a strike, the dismissal triggered an enormous controversy. Mathews additionally took photographs at Shakib after the match however the latter remained adamant and mentioned he had no regrets about his choice to enchantment, which he refused to withdraw even after being requested by the umpires.
Coming again to the BAN vs SL 1st T20I match, Bangladesh skipper Najmul Hossain Shanto gained the toss and elected to bowl first on a inexperienced high.
“I like to bowl first, especially with a lot of dew coming, that’s why. We have very good players, we are playing with two spinners and three seamers,” Shanto mentioned.
Meanwhile, Asalanka mentioned the three-match collection goes to be essential for Sri Lanka for T20 WC preparations.
“170-plus is what we will be targeting. To be honest, we are focusing on this tournament. We would be focusing on playing well before the World Cup,” he added.
Bangladesh (Playing XI): Soumya Sarkar, Litton Das(w), Najmul Hossain Shanto(c), Towhid Hridoy, Mahmudullah, Jaker Ali, Mahedi Hasan, Taskin Ahmed, Shoriful Islam, Rishad Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman
Sri Lanka (Playing XI): Avishka Fernando, Kusal Mendis(w), Sadeera Samarawickrama, Kamindu Mendis, Charith Asalanka(c), Angelo Mathews, Dasun Shanaka, Maheesh Theekshana, Akila Dananjaya, Binura Fernando, Matheesha Pathirana
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