Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka, 2018: 1st Test, Day 4 – Statistical Highlights

A good batting display from Bangladesh on the final day stands between Sri Lankan win and a draw in the first Test at Chittagong as the home team lost three wickets for 83 in their 2nd innings. Sri Lankan batsmen made merry of the conditions to post a mammoth total of 713/9 and take a 200-run first inning lead. A total of 1226 runs were aggregated in the first two innings of this Test which is a record in Bangladesh. The home side will need to bring out their ‘A’ game to escape a defeat after they lost both their openers and Mushfiqur Rahim.

All the stats and numbers that were recorded during the 4th day’s play of the Chittagong Test:

2 – Sri Lanka’s innings is the 2nd instance of three out of top four batsmen scoring hundreds and other player bagging a duck in same Test innings. South Africa also had three centuries and a duck among their top four against England in the 2012 Oval Test.

4 – Only the 4th time five out of Sri Lanka’s top six players scored a fifty-plus in the same innings in Test cricket. They recorded their first such instance against England in 1993 at Colombo (SSC) while the next two came against India in 1997 and 2010 respectively in Colombo (RPS) and Colombo (SSC).

5 – Sunzamul Islam, Mehedy Hasan and Taijul Islam conceding 150+ runs in the Sri Lankan innings is only the 6th instance of three players conceding 150+ in a Test inning. This is also the 2nd such instance in the last 20 years after India against England in 2011 Birmingham Test.

6 – Number of times Sri Lanka posted 700+ totals in Test cricket. No other team posted 700+ more than four times in this format. Windies, Australia and India all scored 700+ in Test cricket on four occasions.

67.3 – Overs Taijul Islam bowled in the Sri Lankan innings. These are the most bowled by a Bangladesh bowler in a Test inning. Shakib Al Hasan held the record for delivering 66 overs against England in the 2010 Dhaka Test.

219 – Taijul Islam became the first Bangladesh bowler to conceded double century in a Test inning. Mohammad Rafique and Sohag Gazi conceded 181 runs respectively against India in 2007 and against Sri Lanka in 2014 which were the previous most runs conceded by a Bangladesh player in a Test inning.

713/9 – Sri Lanka’s total of 713/9 is the 2nd highest for any team after losing a wicket without runs on the board. Australia scored 758/8 against Windies in 1955 in Kingston from 0/1.

2014 – Sri Lanka’s 713/9 is their highest total in Test cricket since their 730/6 also against Bangladesh in Dhaka. This also the first time Sri Lanka declared their first innings of a Test since the 2014 Galle Test against Pakistan.