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CHITS FROM CHITTAGONG

Nur Uddin Alamgir, Chinagong BOWLERASHRAFUL
In his early days Mohammad Ashraful was tipped as a future leg-spinner like his guru Wahidul Ghani. But eventually the Bangladesh captain emerged as a premier batsman of the country.
However, the little righthander on Monday showed that his exploits as a bowler could be very handy for his team after claiming two vital wickets.
He made the first breakthrough in the morning by dismissing opener Malinda Wamapura with the scoreboard reading 55 in 16.5 overs. Ashraful also saw the back of champion Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara (54 runs off 103 balls).
It was also the last achievement of the Tigers on a day the Lankans dictated the terms.
Despite being an occasional bowler, Ashraful's success on the day was quite enviable. He bowled a total of 11 overs and conceded just 29 runs with an average of 2.63 runs per over, which was the second lowest of the bowling statistics of Tigers in the second innings.
LOOSE FIELDING
It was hard work all day for Bangladesh at the Chittagong Divisional Stadium yesterday. The bowling lacked penetration against the tall Lankan batting order. But the most frustrating scenario was average ground fielding. Although the bowlers did create a few chances, they went begging like the first innings. Eventually those let offs proved costly in the end of the
day. Standing at slips, Junaed Siddiqui dropped a sharp chance offered by Dilshan, who followed up his first innings century with yet another impressive unbeaten 81. Substitute Rajin Saleh also missed a golden opportunity to run Dilshan out while he was only six His throw from a vantage position surprisingly missed the wicket by miles.
Contribution from all is important...
To score a big total it does
not necessarily mean that you need big hundreds. Rather you need partnerships and collective contributions. And the Lankans did exactly that to post an impressive 296-4 in their second innings after the third day's play.
The innings so far contained three fifties. But Wamapura's 27, wicketkeeper Prasanna Jayawardene's 28 and skipper Jayawardene's 22 proved that combined effort
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can bring good success.
Compared to that Bangladesh's first inning contained almost two half centuries. However, in collective terms they fell far behind with three batsmen being dismissed for ducks while the other three failed to cross the | double-digit mark in an unimpressive first innings total of 208.