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Fielding gaffes cost Tigers

BlSHWAJIT Roy in Chittagong
If it was a pleasure to watch the batting of Tillakaratne Dilshan then it was pathetic the way the Bangladesh fielders missed the chances on the first day of the second and final Test at the
Chittagong Divisional Stadium yesterday.
All credit must go to Dilshan after the way the right-hander brought back the smile on the faces of the Sri Lankans as his stroke-filled 162 helped his side end the day with an impressive 371 for six after recovering from a shaky 75 for four.
It was however not the total rather the way they missed some opportunities that disappointed Bangladesh skipper Mohammad Ashraful.
"It is really frustrating the way we dropped catches and missed stumping. It is part of the game but we should understand that for a team like us, its really bad. It was not so easy for the bowlers to create chance in this kind of wicket, so you can understand the value of a wicket," said Ashraful.
"We had a brilliant start but in the end we were in the backseat. It could have been a different story if we had not dropped some catches. I don't want to blame anybody but we
should take catches at this level,” he added.
Bangladesh put pressure on their mighty opponents after they were put into field first as the visitors were reduced to 75 for 4 thanks to Mashrafe Bin Mortaza who removed opener Prasanna Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara in his first two overs.
Dilshan snatched away the initiatives with the help of Malinda Warnapura (63) and Chamara Kapugcdara, who remained not out on 93, his highestTest score.
But all the three batsmen had their lucks to take Sway their team away from trouble.
Who have the safest hands? Undoubtedly it's the wicketkeeper but Mushfiqur Rahim once again proved that he has a long way to go to be established as an international standard stumper.
The young Bogra lad started all the wrongdoings when he failed to hold the catch of Sri Lanka skipper Jayawardene off Shakib Al Hasan. It was not too costly as the Lankan captain was dismissed immediately for 11 runs but it was when he failed to gather the ball to make sure the stumping against Warnapura off the same bowler.
Later he missed another stumping chance againstDilshanwhentheright-handerwason 155.
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Zunaed Siddiqui however made the most costly blunder when he dropped Dilshan on 78. Dilshan got a thick edge from left-arm spinner Mehrab Hossain trying to Hash but only to travel to the first slip where the lanky fielder fumbled the right-hander to make his second highest total of 162 that saw 21 fours and two sixes.
Imrul Kayes was the other culprit on the day as he dropped Kapugedara on 37 to give the right-hander a chance to make his maiden Test hundred. This time the unlucky bowler was Mashrafe.
Kapugedara, who is now just seven runs away from making his hundred, got forward to whip Mashrafe away through the on side and chipped it tamely to Kayes at mid-on but the fielder dived forward to spills a sitter.
So one can say that the fielders actually made the day difficult for the Tigers bowlers. SCOREBOARD Scoreboard at stumps on the first day of the second and final Test between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh at the Chittagong Divisional Stadium on Saturday: SRI LANKA: First innings Warnapura lbw b Ashraful 63 P Jayawardene lbw b Mashrafe 0
Sangakkara b Mashrafe 5
M Jayawardene c Mushfiqur bShakib 11
SamarweerabShahadat 19
Dilshan b Enamul 162 Kapugedera notout 93
Vaas not out 1
Extras: (b-4,lb-6,w-l,nb-6)17
Total: (For six wkts in 90 overs) 371
To bat: Mendis, Fernando, Muralidaran.
Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-7, 3-39, 4-75,5-194,6-367.
Bowler O M R W
Mashrafe 20 7 48 2
Shahadat 14 0 80 1
Shakib 28 5 108 1
Enamul 19 3 70 1
Mehrab 7 1 36 0
Ashraful 2 0 19 1
Toss: Sri Lanka
Umpires: Steve Bucknor (WIS) and Nigel Llong (ENG)