Although Zakir Hasan and Taijul Isram managed to deal with the initial disaster, Bangladesh's batting lineup suddenly became a mess. 96 to 105- Bangladesh lost 3 wickets each in these 9 runs. The Bangladesh team went into the lunch break with 115 runs for 4 wickets.

The wicket where the Lankan batsmen ruled became the slaughter ground for the Bangladeshi batsmen. Lankan bowlers are now ruling the roost. Vishwa Fernando took 2 wickets and Prabhath Jayasuriya took 1 wicket.

Burdened under the mountain of 531 runs, two openers Mahmudul Hasan Joy and Zakir Hasan made a pair of 47 runs when they came to bat on the second day. Joy was bowled by Lahiru Kumara for 21 runs. Taijul Islam entered the field as a night watchman.

They made a pair of 49 runs for the second wicket. The two of them spent the first hour and a half on the third day today. In the meantime, Zakir Hasan completed his half century. Bangladesh's second wicket pair finally broke. Zakir Hasan was bowled by Biswa Fernando. He scored 54 runs off 104 balls.

At this time captain Nazmul Hossain Shanto came to the wicket. There are many expectations on this top order of the Bangladesh team. But in this series against Sri Lanka, he could not score any more runs except a century in the ODI match. As if he has forgotten batting. Even today he got out by playing 11 balls for 1 run. After that, Taijul Islam also got out after the team scored 105 runs.