Bangladeshi national cricket team in Sri Lanka in the 2007 season

The tour of the Bangladeshi national cricket team to Sri Lanka in the 2007 season took place from June 25 to July 24, 2007. The international cricket tour was part of the 2007 international cricket season and included three tests and three ODIs . Sri Lanka won both series 3–0 each.

prehistory

Sri Lanka last played a tour against Pakistan , Bangladesh against India . The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in the 2005/06 season in Bangladesh .

Stages

Colombo (PSS) Colombo (RPS) Kandy

Tour venues

The following stages were designated as the venue for the tour and announced on May 13th.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium (PSS)	Colombo	15,000	2. test; 1. ODI
R. Premadasa Stadium (RPS)	Colombo	35,000	1st test; 2nd & 3rd ODI
Muttiah Muralitharan International Cricket Stadium	Kandy	35,000	3rd test

Squad lists

Bangladesh named its test squad on June 4, 2007. Sri Lanka named its squad on June 13, 2007.

test		ODI
Sri Lanka	Bangladesh	Sri Lanka	Bangladesh
Mahela Jayawardene ( K ) Marvan Atapattu Malinga Bandara Sujeewa de Silva Dilhara Fernando Sanath Jayasuriya Prasanna Jayawardene ( wk ) Farveez Maharoof Lasith Malinga Mutthiah Muralitharan Kumar Sangakkara Chamara Silva Upul Tharanga Chaminda Vaas Michael Vandort Malinda Warnapura	Mohammad Ashraful ( K ) Mashrafe Mortaza ( UK ) Abdur Razzak Hibibul Bashar Javed Omar Khaled Mashud ( wk ) Mehrab Hossain jnr Mohammad Rafique Mohammad Sharif Mushfiqur Rahim Rajin Saleh Shahadat Hossain Shahriar Nafees Shakib Al Hasan Syed Rasel Tushar Imran	Mahela Jayawardene ( K ) Malinga Bandara Upul Chandana Tillakaratne Dilshan Dilhara Fernando Sanath Jayasuriya Chamara Kapugedera Nuwan Kulasekara Farveez Maharoof Lasith Malinga Jehan Mubarak Kumar Sangakkara ( wk ) Chamara Silva Upul Tharanga Chaminda Vaas	Mohammad Ashraful ( K ) Mashrafe Mortaza ( UK ) Abdur Razzak Aftab Ahmed Farhad Reza Javed Omar Mahmudullah Mehrab Hossain jnr Mushfiqur Rahim ( wk ) Shahadat Hossain Shahriar Nafees Shakib Al Hasan Syed Rasel Tamim Iqbal Tushar Imran

Tour match

June 20-22 Scorecard	Colombo (CCC)	Bangladeshis 245-8d (104)	-	Sri lanka A 170-4 (36.3)
		draw

July 18 scorecard	Colombo (PPG)	Sri lanka A 241-5 (50)	-	Bangladeshis 242-7 (49.2)
		Bangladeshis wins with 3 wickets

Testing

First test in Colombo

June 25-28 Scorecard	Colombo (RPS)	Bangladesh 89 (32.3) & 254 (87.1)	-	Sri Lanka 577-6d (135.5)
		Sri Lanka wins with one innings and 234 runs

Second test in Colombo

July 3-5 scorecard	Colombo (PSS)	Bangladesh 62 (26) & 299 (86.2)	-	Sri Lanka 451-6d (124.5)
		Sri Lanka wins with one innings and 90 runs

Third test in Kandy

July 11-14 scorecard	Kandy	Bangladesh 131 (48.5) & 176 (59)	-	Sri Lanka 500-4d (107)
		Sri Lanka wins with one innings and 193 runs

One-day internationals

First ODI in Colombo

July 20 scorecard	Colombo (PSS)	Sri Lanka 234-6 (50)	-	Bangladesh 164 (40.3)
		Sri Lanka wins with 70 runs

Second ODI in Colombo

July 22nd scorecard	Colombo (RPS)	Bangladesh 137 (46.5)	-	Sri Lanka 141-5 (31.1)
		Sri Lanka wins with 5 wickets

Third ODI in Colombo

July 24th scorecard	Colombo (RPS)	Sri Lanka 196 (39.5)	-	Bangladesh 157 (37.1)
		Sri Lanka wins with 39 runs

statistics

The following cricket statistics were obtained on this tour.

Testing
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	3	3	428	428.00	222 *	2	0
Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	3	3	341	113.66	165	2	0
Mohammad Ashraful	Bangladesh	3	6th	218	43.60	129 *	1	0
Michael Vandort	Sri Lanka	3	3	174	58.00	117	1	0
Shahriar Nafees	Bangladesh	3	6th	166	27.66	64	0	1
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka	3	112.5	26th	10.84	6/28	3	1
Lasith Malinga	Sri Lanka	3	68	12	25.75	4/25	0	0
Dilhara Fernando	Sri Lanka	2	49	8th	17.12	3/33	0	0
Chaminda Vaas	Sri Lanka	2	44.2	6th	17.50	4/55	0	0
Sujeewa de Silva	Sri Lanka	1	24	4th	15.75	2/29	0	0
Shahadat Hossain	Bangladesh	3	55	4th	63.50	2/81	0	0

ODIs
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Chamara Silva	Sri Lanka	2	2	101	50.50	65	0	1
Upul Tharanga	Sri Lanka	3	3	99	33.00	57	0	1
Jehan Mubarak	Sri Lanka	3	3	94	94.00	72	0	1
Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka	3	3	83	41.50	39	0	0
Tamim Iqbal	Bangladesh	3	3	68	22.66	54	0	1
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka	3	17.5	9	7.55	4/14	0	0
Dilhara Fernando	Sri Lanka	3	24.1	6th	13.33	4/24	0	0
Syed Rasel	Bangladesh	3	28	5	20.00	2/39	0	0
Abdur Razzak	Bangladesh	3	26th	5	26.40	3/47	0	0
Lasith Malinga	Sri Lanka	2	16	4th	9.75	3/22	0	0
Farveez Maharoof	Sri Lanka	3	26th	4th	20.75	2/40	0	0

Player of the Series

The following players were honored as Player of the Series .

series	Player of the Series
test	Muttiah Muralitharan
ODI	Sanath Jayasuriya

Player of the Match

The following players were recognized as Player of the Match .

game	Player of the Match
1st test	Muttiah Muralitharan
2nd test	Kumar Sangakkara
3rd test	Muttiah Muralitharan
1. ODI	Dilhara Fernando
2. ODI	Sanath Jayasuriya
3. ODI	Jehan Mubarak

Web links

Tour on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sa'adi Thawfeeq: Test cricket returns to the R Premadasa Stadium ( English ) Cricinfo. May 13, 2007. Retrieved August 21, 2016.
2. ↑ Rahim and Razzak recalled to Test squad ( English ) Cricinfo. May 4, 2007. Retrieved August 21, 2016.
3. ↑ Sa'adi Thawfeeq: Atapattu and Chandana recalled for Bangladesh series ( English ) Cricinfo. June 13, 2007. Retrieved August 21, 2016.
4. ↑ Records / Bangladesh in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2007 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved September 5, 2016.
5. ↑ Records / Bangladesh in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2007 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved September 5, 2016.
6. ↑ Records / Bangladesh in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2007 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved September 5, 2016.
7. ↑ Records / Bangladesh in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2007 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved September 5, 2016.