Mendis got Mehrab Hossain jnr and then Shakib for a golden duck.
Then Ashraful made an incredibly poor decision. He tried to reverse sweep Murali and was caught behind on 45. That's absolutely unacceptable for the captain, the bloke who's meant to be setting an example going out in that fashion.
It could have been alot worse for Bangladesh with the score at one stage being 9/145. Thankfully Mortaza and Hossain put on 63 runs for the last wicket.
Mortaza was the last man dismissed for 63 with Hossain remaining not out on 5.
The major wicket takers for Sri Lanka were Mendis who took 4/66 and Murali who got 3/62.
Sri Lanka take a first innings lead of 172 runs but will be disappointed they couldn't break the last wicket partnership earlier in order to make Bangladesh follow on.
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