COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) Offspinner Mehdi Hasan took two wickets as Bangladesh made a promising start to its milestone 100th test match, restricting Sri Lanka to 70 for four at lunch Wednesday on the opening day of the second test.
Sri Lanka captain Rangana Herath won the toss and elected to bat first but the Bangladesh seamers bowled tightly to keep the hosts on the back foot.
With no room provided to score runs Dimuth Karunaratne (7) slashed away from his body to a ball from left-arm seamer Mustafizur Rahman and was caught at gully by Hasan with the total on 13. Hasan (2-32) then dismissed Kusal Mendis (5) , stumped by captain Mushfiqur Rahim, and had Upul Tharanga (11) caught at slip by Soumya Sarkar.
Both Mendis and Tharanga had scored centuries in Sri Lanka's win in the first test.
Seamer Subashis Roy trapped Asela Gunaratne lbw at the stroke of lunch.
Bangladesh made four changes to the lineup which lost the series-opener, leaving out Mahmudullah Riyad, Mominul Haque, Taskin Ahmed and Liton Das from the first test.
Mossadek Hossain, who has played limited-overs international cricket, was handed a first test cap. Batsmen Imrul Kayes, Sabbir Rahman and left-arm spin bowler Taijul Islam have all been recalled to the starting XI.
Sri Lanka left out fast bowler Lahiru Kumara because of injury and added an extra batsman in Dhananjaya de Silva.
