Sri Lankan cricket team in Bangladesh in 1977-78

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The month long tour, during January 1978, turned out to be a big disappointment for both the sides, the Lankan visitors were disappointed by the low quality of local opposition, while the local players found their opponents too difficult to handle. As a result the tour was full of badly one sided fixtures. The measure of the superiority of the tourist can be measured by the fact that, there Vice Captain Bandula Warnapura scored centuries in each of the three unofficial test matches, while the highest score for the local side was 49 by Syed Ashraful at Chittagong. Once, and only once, could any local side bowl the opposition side out, that also happened at Chittagong.

[edit] Scores in brief:

Central Zone v Sri Lanka. 2 Day Match,3,4 January, 1978, Mymensingh.

Central Zone: 42 & 72 (Raquibul Hasan 25).

Sri Lanka: 190/2 (Declared) (Bandula Warnapura 85, Ranjit Fernando 79).

Result: Sri Lanka wins by an innings & 76 runs.

South Zone v Sri Lanka. 2 Day Match, 6,7 January, 1978, Jessore.

Sri Lanka: 276/7 (Declared) (Anura Tennekoon 58, Duleep Mendis 51) & 139/4 (Boutars 51, Roy Dias 50)

South Zone: 97 (Ashraful 40, Bacchu 24, Selim 21) and 52/4.

Result: Match Drawn

BCCB President's XI v Sri Lanka. 2 Day Match, 9,10 January 1978, Faridpur.

Sri Lanka: 320/4 (Declared) (Sidath Wettimuny 100, Duleep Mendis 106, Azam 3/73)

BCCB: 55 & 155/8 (Mainu 39, Yousuf Babu 28).

Result: Match Drawn.

Bangladesh v Sri Lanka. 3 day First Unofficial Test, 13,14,15 January 1978, Dhaka

Bangladesh 174 (Yousuf Babu 37, Ajit de Silva 6/69) & 164 (Yousuf Babu 41*)

Sri Lanka 347/3 (Declared) (Bandula Warnapura 116, Anura Tennekoon 100, Duleep Mendis 70*, Ashraful 2/84).

Result: Sri Lanka wins by an innings and 9 runs.

Bangladesh v Sri Lanka, One Day Match, 16 January 1978, Dhaka

Bangladesh 88 ( Khaled Rumi 23)

Sri Lanka 89/1 (Roy Dias52*)

Result: Sri Lanka wins by 9 wickets.

Bangladesh v Sri Lanka. 3 Day Second Unofficial Test Match, 19, 20, 21 January, 1978, Rajshahi

Sri Lanka: 307/1 (Declared) (Bandula Warnapura 167*, Anura Tennekoon 72*, Ranjit Fernando 57)

Bangladesh: 143 (Anura Ranasinghe 5/11 including a hatrick) & 161.

Result: Sri Lanka wins by an innings & 3 runs.

Bangladesh v Sri Lanka. 3 Day Third Unofficial Test Match, 24, 25, 26 January, 1978,Chittagong

Bangladesh: 176 (Mainu 43, Ashraful 42) & 127 (Ashraful 49, Khaled Rumy 35)

Sri Lanka: 327 (Bandula Warnapura 105, Tanveer 3/76, Yousuf Babu 3/59, Ashraful 2/70)

Result: Sri Lanka wins by an innings & 24 runs. ^[1]

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