Sri Lankan cricket team in Bangladesh in 1977–78

Sri Lankan Cricket Team in Bangladesh in 1977-78
Teams	Sri Lanka	Bangladesh
Dates	3 January – 26 January 1978
Captains	Anura Tennekoon	Raquibul Hasan

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 superiority of the tourists can be measured by the fact that, their 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.^[1]

Scores in brief

Date	Match	Venue			Result
3–4 January	2-Day Match	Mymensingh	Central Zone: 42 & 72 (Raquibul Hasan 25)	Sri Lanka: 190/2 (Declared) (Bandula Warnapura 85, Ranjit Fernando 79)	Sri Lanka wins by an innings & 76 runs
6–7 January	2-Day Match	Jessore	Sri Lanka: 276/7 (Declared) (Anura Tennekoon 58, Duleep Mendis 51) & 139/4 (Boutars 51, Roy Dias 50)	South Zone: 97 (Ashraful Haque 40, Bacchu 24, Selim 21) and 52/4	Match Drawn
9–10 January	2-Day Match	Faridpur	Sri Lanka: 320/4 (Declared) (Sidath Wettimuny 100, Duleep Mendis 106, Azam 3/73)	BCCB: 55 & 155/8 (Mainu 39, Yousuf Babu 28)	Match drawn
13–15 January	3-Day Match	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 Haque 2/84)	Sri Lanka wins by an innings and 9 runs
16 January	1-Day Match (40 Overs	Dhaka	Bangladesh 88 (Omar Khaled Rumy 23)	Sri Lanka 89/1 (Roy Dias 52*)	Sri Lanka wins by 9 wickets
19–21 January	3-Day Match	Rajshahi	Sri Lanka: 307/1 (Declared) (Bandula Warnapura 167, Anura Tennekoon 72, Ranjit Fernando 57)	Bangladesh: 143 (Anura Ranasinghe 5/11 including a hat-trick) & 161.	Sri Lanka wins by an innings and 3 runs
24–26 January	3-Day Match	Chittagong	Bangladesh: 176 (Mainu 43, Ashraful Haque 42) & 127 (Ashraful Haque 49, Rumy 35)	Sri Lanka: 327 (Bandula Warnapura 105, Tanveer 3/76, Yousuf Babu 3/59, Ashraful Haque 2/70)	Sri Lanka wins by an innings and 24 runs

References

↑ Hasan Babli. "Antorjartik Crickete Bangladesh". Khelar Bhuban Prakashani, November 1994.

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