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Sports 19<br />
<strong>DT</strong><br />
WEDNESDAY, MARCH <strong>29</strong>, <strong>2017</strong><br />
2ND ODI<br />
SRI LANKA R B<br />
Gunathilaka c Mushfiq b Mashrafe 9 11<br />
Tharanga run out (Mahmudullah) 65 76<br />
Mendis c & b Taskin 102 107<br />
Chandimal lbw b Mustafizur 24 30<br />
Gunaratne c Soumya b Taskin 39 28<br />
Siriwardana b Miraz 30 30<br />
Perera run out (Mushfiq) 9 6<br />
Dilruwan run out (Mushfiq) 9 8<br />
Kulasekara not out 2 2<br />
Lakmal c Mustafizur b Taskin 0 1<br />
Pradeep b Taskin 0 1<br />
Extras (b 4, lb 10, w 7, nb 1) 22<br />
Total (all out; 49.5 overs) 311<br />
Fall Of Wickets<br />
1-18 (Gunathilaka), 2-1<strong>29</strong> (Tharanga), 3-212<br />
(Chandimal), 4-216 (Mendis), 5-271 (Siriwardana),<br />
6-280 (Perera), 7-300 (Dilruwan),<br />
8-311 (Gunaratne), 9-311 (Lakmal),<br />
10-311 (Pradeep)<br />
Bowling<br />
Mashrafe 10-1-55-1, Miraz 10-0-50-1,<br />
Mustafizur 8-0-60-1, Taskin 8.5-0-47-4,<br />
Shakib 10-0-59-0, Mosaddek 3-0-26-0<br />
Match abandoned due to rain<br />
Sri Lanka’s Kusal Mendis plays a<br />
paddle sweep as Bangladesh’s<br />
Mushfiqur Rahim looks on AFP<br />
MOMENTS OF THE DAY<br />
Bizarre Tharanga run out<br />
Makeshift Sri Lanka captain Upul Tharanga<br />
formed a crucial 111 third-wicket<br />
partnership alongside centurion Kusal<br />
Mendis. Tharanga was batting well<br />
and the Lankans were cruising after 24<br />
overs. But Tharanga’s promising innings<br />
ended courtesy a bizarre run out. Pacer<br />
Mustafizur Rahman bowled a waist high<br />
full toss down the leg side. Wicket-keeper<br />
Mushfiqur Rahim dived full length to<br />
his right and deflected the ball to short<br />
fine leg. All-rounder Mahmudullah, stationed<br />
at short fine leg, effected a direct<br />
hit at the bowler's end as Tharanga<br />
rushed across the other end. Tharanga’s<br />
casual approach gifted Bangladesh a<br />
lucky breakthrough. There is only one<br />
possible way to get out off a no-ball.<br />
And that’s exactly what Tharanga did!<br />
Ran himself out off a no ball!<br />
Sharp Mushfiq run out<br />
Mushfiq was sharp behind the stumps<br />
throughout the second ODI. After winning<br />
the toss, the home side started<br />
their innings aggressively. Opening<br />
batsman Danushka Gunathilaka topedged<br />
an in swinging delivery from limited-over<br />
captain Mashrafe bin Mortaza<br />
in the third over. The ball went high and<br />
Mushfiq ran towards short fine leg to<br />
grab the catch. It was a fine effort from<br />
the diminutive stumper. Another important<br />
moment came in the 47th over.<br />
Mashrafe made a strong appeal against<br />
all-rounder Thisara Perera. Perera was<br />
looking dangerous as he was batting<br />
on nine off six balls at that moment.<br />
Messi banned for four int’l matches<br />
• Reuters<br />
Argentina forward Lionel Messi<br />
has been banned from their next<br />
four competitive internationals,<br />
starting with yesterday’s World<br />
Cup qualifier in Bolivia, for swearing<br />
at a match official, Fifa said on<br />
Tuesday.<br />
The decision was announced<br />
less than six hours before kickoff<br />
of the match in La Paz and means<br />
that the five-times world player of<br />
the year will play in only one of Argentina’s<br />
remaining five World Cup<br />
qualifiers.<br />
His absence will be a severe blow<br />
to the two-times world champions<br />
who are struggling in the marathon<br />
South American campaign where<br />
their results have included home<br />
However, Perera went for a quick single,<br />
Mushfiq grabbed the ball quickly<br />
and effected a direct throw to end his<br />
innings. It might just have saved Bangladesh<br />
15-20 runs as Perera made a blistering<br />
35-ball 55 in the first ODI. Later,<br />
Mushfiq also ran out Dilruwan Perera in<br />
a similar fashion in the 49th over.<br />
Rain wins at the end<br />
Sri Lanka posted a challenging total of<br />
311, riding on Mendis’s maiden ODI century.<br />
But then, rain intervened just after<br />
defeats by Ecuador and Paraguay<br />
and a 3-0 mauling by arch-rivals<br />
Brazil.<br />
Fifa said Messi had “directed<br />
insulting words at an assistant referee”<br />
during the 1-0 win over Chile<br />
on Friday, in which he scored the<br />
only goal from a penalty.<br />
Television pictures showed him<br />
swearing at Brazilian linesman<br />
Emerson Augusto do Carvalho at<br />
the end of the match after being<br />
harried and fouled by Chilean player<br />
Jean Beausejour. The official<br />
patted him on the head and tried<br />
to calm him down but Messi kept<br />
ranting.<br />
Fifa said in a letter to the Argentine<br />
Football Association, published<br />
by Argentine media, that the<br />
incident was not detailed in the<br />
the innings break. It continued to pour<br />
down heavily for around half an hour.<br />
As the drizzling continued to get heavy,<br />
match officials had no other option but<br />
to call off the game at 8:45pm. Following<br />
their first ODI thrashing, the Lankans<br />
came back well and registered a fine<br />
batting display yesterday. The home fans<br />
were in upbeat mood but rain eventually<br />
had the final say on proceedings. •<br />
ALI SHAHRIYAR AMIN<br />
FROM DAMBULLA<br />
referee’s report at the time and was<br />
brought to their attention by the<br />
media.<br />
According to the letter, Carvalho<br />
said he did not understand at the<br />
time what Messi was saying.<br />
“I only realised he was swearing<br />
afterwards on reading the press,”<br />
he said.<br />
Messi, <strong>29</strong>, will also miss games<br />
away to Uruguay and home to Venezuela<br />
and Peru. The Barcelona<br />
forward will be eligible again when<br />
Argentina visit Ecuador on Oct. 10.<br />
Argentina are third in the 10-<br />
team South American group with<br />
22 points from 13 games but have<br />
only a two-point cushion over<br />
sixth-placed Chile, with Colombia<br />
(21) and Ecuador (20) sandwiched<br />
in between. •