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Dilshan in the limelight

Sports Reporter in chinagong
BThe focus was firmly on his captain with due to his hundredth Test match but it was Tillakaratne Dilshan who made the second Test against Bangladesh a memorable one in his career at the Chittagong Divisional Stadium yesterday.
There had been lot of talking about deadly spin duo Muttiah Muralidaran and mystery spinner Ajantha Mendis before the start of the series. There was also much discussion about batting maestros Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara but it was ultimately the less famous Dilshan who took the spotlight after the two-match Test series, which the Sri Lankans emphatically won to continue their supremacy against theTigers.
The right-hander's century in both innings made sure that Bangladesh suffered their heaviest defeat (by 465-run) in terms of runs in Test cricket and his fabulous effort left no choice for the adjudicators but declare him man-of-the-match and man-of-the-series.
"I can't forget this Test. I know I am the fourth Sri Lankan to score a hundred in each
innings. I stuck to my game plan which was to attack and I won the battle," said Dilshan, who made 162 and 143 in the second Test and then picked up four wickets for ten runs to mop up the Bangladesh tail to ensure the defeat inside four days.
"It’s always a great feeling to score runs. I am really happy with my performance but I didn't know that I was the second batsman after Australian Alan Border to make 150 in both innings."
Dilshan however said that it was not so easy to bat on this kind of slow pitch.
"It's a totally different wicket from Mirpur. It's more difficult to score runs as the bounce is uneven and the pace is slow,” he observed.
Sri Lanka skipper Jayawardene also said that it was not easy for them to win the match in these conditions despite the huge 465-run victory margin against the home side.
“I'm very happy because we knew it was going to be tough considering the conditions we were given. We knew we had to adjust. We were in trouble at times but the guys showed a lot of fight and character," he said.
“Dilshan in the first innings showed that
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when we were 4 for 75 and that is something we encourage the boys to do, to be the best they can. I am very proud of the players. We are a good unit and we have very good standards. We just need to continue working hard and improving. At the moment we are 4th in the rankings and we should try and push ourselves further up,” Jayawardene hoped.
The captain also had a word of support for the fans who had turned up to watch them play.
"The people here have been brilliant, and the support we've got from the Sri Lankan students here in Chittagong has been really good."
He also pointed out the reasons behind the Bangladesh batsmen's failure in this surface after their good show in Dhaka.
"This is a tougher wicket. It slower and has less pace and bounce than Dhaka. The game plan has to be different here because playing shots is not so easy. Our guys adjusted to according to the game plan. They could not," he observed.
He was also not concerned about his poor showing in his 100th Test match, instead saying that the team outcome made his happier.
"I am not concerned as long as we win matches," he concluded.