Abdur Razzak completed his 200 wickets in One Day International Cricket while playing in the third ODI match against Sri Lanka at Pallekele. He is the first bowler from Bangladesh to reach this landmark.

Razzak needed 5 wickets in the 3^rd ODI to complete his 200 wickets. It was not an easy task against a heavyweight Sri Lankan batting line up. But, Razzak managed to do it. He got three wickets in his first spell of 8 overs.

The first batsman whom Razzak dismissed was Kumar Sangakkara. He bowled a fuller length ball on the pads of Sangakkara who tried to flick it through midwicket. The ball gripped the surface and turned a bit. Because of that slight turn, Sangakkara couldn’t hit the ball from the sweet part of the bat and the ball went in the air. The fielder at short midwicket completed the catch easily.

In his next over, Razzak got another one. This time, it was Thisara Perera who perished. Razzak went through his defense and bowled him.

Razzak dismissed Angelo Mathews in his eighth over with a flighted delivery. Mathews came out of his crease while trying to play a big shot and was stumped.

That was the last over of Razzak’s spell. The Bangladeshi skipper Mushfiqur Rahim saved Razzak’s two overs for the later stages of the innings.

Razzak was brought back into the attack in the 46^th over. He couldn’t take any wicket in that over and gave away 12 runs. He was taken off again.

Razzak came on to bowl the last over of the innings and he dismissed Nuwan Kulasekara on the first ball of that over. Kulasekara was given out leg before wicket. On the next ball, Sachithra Senanayaka was clean bowled and Razzak got his 200^th wicket.

Razzak’s figures at the end of the innings were 5-52 in 10 overs.

The skipper of the Bangladesh cricket team, Mushfiqur Rahim, scored a fantastic double hundred in Bangladesh’s first innings in the first test match against Sri Lanka. That was the first double hundred scored by a Bangladeshi batsman in test cricket.

At the end of the third day’s play, the score of Bangladesh was 438 runs for the loss of 4 wickets. Mohammad Ashraful and Mushfiqur Rahim were not out on 189 and 152 respectively.

On the fourth morning, Ashraful got out after adding just one more run to his overnight score. He tried to loft Rangana Herath over extra cover by coming down the track, but, he couldn’t get to the pitch of the ball. The ball turned, took the outside edge and went to Angelo Mathews who was at first slip.

But, Mushfiqur continued to play sensible cricket and his partner Nasir Hossain who had come after the fall of Ashraful’s wicket was also looking in great nick. He hit a flurry of boundaries at the start of his innings and then, after getting to his fifty, he slowed down a bit.

Mushfiqur completed his double hundred just after lunch, but, he got out immediately after that. He tried to play across the line and was trapped plump in front. Kulasekara got his wicket.

Nasir played sensibly with the tail-enders and built small partnerships with them to take Bangladesh past the Sri Lankan total. He also completed his first test hundred in the meantime.

Nasir was also dismissed immediately after the completion of his hundred and after his dismissal, the rest of the Bangladesh wickets fell in a hurry.

However, Bangladesh managed to take a lead of 68 runs.

Sri Lanka got a great start in the second innings and at the end of the fourth day’s play, they were at 116 for 1.