The preparation of the Nidhas trophy is very good. Today, in the preparation match of the Colombo Cricket Club, Sri Lanka Board President XI lost Mahmudullah to 40 runs. In reply to Bangladesh's first innings total of 186, Bangladesh were bowled out for 145 in 19 overs.
Two pacer Rubel Hossain and Taskin Ahmed have contributed a lot to Bangladesh's win with 2 wickets. Rubel's costly 19 runs in 3 overs, Taskin gave 16 runs in 3 overs. Abu Hayder, Soumya Sarkar and Nazmul Islam got one wicket each.
The Sri Lankan board scored 27 runs for the eighth-wicket pair of Niroshan Dikveller. 19 runs Lahiru Milton Besides, Dhananjay de Silva (14) and Laxman Sandakan (13) and Angelo Perera (22).
Bangladesh has got the opportunity of batting first on the basis of mutual understanding because of the preparation match. But the start was not good at all. Soumya and Sabbir could not get out of the void due to failure. Going back to the dressing room with 14 runs on the scoreboard, these two Soumya was bowled on the first ball of the match. And Shabbir has played 10 balls with 1 run.
After that, Liton Das picked up the storm. The wicketkeeper-batsman, 40 runs from 18 balls, went down to the opening. But the highest score came from Mushfiqur Rahim's bat-65 to 65. With Mushfiqq, Liton made 52 runs for the first wicket. After that, Mushfiqur added 74 runs for the fourth wicket with Mahmudullah. Mahmudullah scored 43 runs from 27.
