DHAKA: Tillakaratne Dilshan and Lahiru Thirimanne hit a pair of fifties, are helping Sri Lanka set a challenging target for Bangladesh in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 Pool A match on Thursday.

Till filling this report, Sri Lanka scored 147 runs for one in 30 overs at Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Lahiru Thirimanne opened Sri Lanka’s innings while Tillakaratne Dilshanin was assisting Lahiru Thirimanne on another end.

Rubel Hossain stopped Lahiru Thirimanne, sending him back to the pavilion. Thirimanne scored 52 runs off 78 balls.

Kumar Sangakkara than began accompanying Dilshanin, who scored 68 runs off 77 balls.

In the beginning of the match, Thirimanne got a life as Anamul Haque dropped an easy catch at first slip when Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza began the bowling of the innings.

Earlier Sri Lanka captain Angela Mathews won the toss and decided to bat first. The match kicked off at 9:30am Bangladesh Time.

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Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza “If we lost to Sri Lanka in the past it meant we did not play those games well, it's as simple as that. If we do well there is no reason why we can't beat them.”

“It looks to me to be a good wicket. We have seen the India-South Africa match as well. Looks like it will be a good batting track. It will be fine. It will be nice," Mashrafe Mortaza added.

Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews said, “If we click as a group, I think we can do wonders. We just need to click. What we need to learn is to dominate from ball one and stay in the game till the end. Lasith (Malinga) is working extremely hard at the nets,” said Mathews.

“One has to be at the peak when the quarterfinals come, and he and the others are working towards that,” he added.

Squads

Bangladesh
Mashrafe Mortaza*, Al-Amin Hossain, Anamul Haque, Arafat Sunny, Mahmudullah, Mominul Haque, Mushfiqur Rahim†, Nasir Hossain, Rubel Hossain, Sabbir Rahman, Shakib Al Hasan, Soumya Sarkar, Taijul Islam, Tamim Iqbal, Taskin Ahmed

Sri Lanka
AD Mathews*, HDRL Thirimanne, PVD Chameera, LD Chandimal, TM Dilshan, HMRKB Herath, DPMD Jayawardene, FDM Karunaratne, KMDN Kulasekara, RAS Lakmal, SL Malinga, NLTC Perera, KC Sangakkara†, SMSM Senanayake, WU Tharanga

BDST: 1150 HRS, FEB 26, 2015

** Bangladesh sent to field