Nuwan Kulasekara and Thisara Perera’s tight bowling in the death overs helped Sri Lanka edge out Bangladesh by two runs in a thriller in the first T20 International at the Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury, here on Wednesday.
SRI LANKA
Perera c Haque b Sunny64
Dilshan b Mortaza0
Chandimal c Reza b Shakib18
S’kkara c Hossain b Shakib11
Prasanna c Hossain b Sunny4
Mathews (run out)11
Perera (not out)19
K’sekara c Rahman b Mortaza31
Senanayake (not out)0
Extras (LB-7, W-3)10
Total (for 7 wkts, 20 overs)168
Fall of wickets: 1-7, 2-61, 3-77, 4-87, 5-116, 6-120, 7-164.