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A brief history

Sri Lanka v Bangladesh

Will Luke

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The captains toss before the second Test in 2002 © Getty Images

2002
Bangladesh's inaugural Test tour of Sri Lanka started with Sri Lanka's biggest ever victory, by an innings and 196 runs at Colombo. Inspired by Aravinda de Silva's swansong - his 200 came from 229 balls - Sri Lanka blew away Bangladesh inside three days. Muttiah Muralitharan, who took 10 for 98, was one of seven Sri Lankans rested by the selectors for the second Test. There was no respite for the visitors - despite the host's depletion in experience - whose batting crumbled limply. Their bowlers, though, did at least show some quality in dismissing Sri Lanka for 373 in their first innings. In the one-day series, Bangladesh were equally inept and, in the second match, were dismissed for just 76.
Tests: Sri Lanka 2 Bangladesh 0
ODIs: Sri Lanka 3 Bangladesh 0

2005-06
Two more crushing innings victories - by 96 runs in the first Test, and 69 in the second - highlighted the inadequacies of Bangladesh's batting rather more than the quality of Sri Lanka's bowling. Mohammad Rafique toiled valiantly in the first Test, deservedly picking up 5 for 114, but the Bangladeshi batsmen folded in their second innings to Muttiah Muralitharan, whose ten-over spell cost just 18 runs and yielded six wickets. Sri Lanka's batting clicked in the second Test, with two contrasting hundreds from Thilan Samaraweera Tillakaratne Dilshan: Samaraweera's 138, from 217 balls, was an innings far from pedestrian, but Dilshan eclipsed it with a brutal 168 at nearly a run a ball. Mohammad Ashraful batted entertainingly for his 42 in the first innings and Shahriar Nafees sensibly for his second-innings 51, but these chipper knocks merely delayed the inevitable.
Tests: Sri Lanka 2 Bangladesh 0
ODIs: Sri Lanka 3 Bangladesh 0

Will Luke is editorial assistant of Cricinfo