Sangakkara triple-century flattens Bangladesh

Feb 05, 2014

Kumar Sangakkara continued from where he left off on day one, piling on the runs to take the game away from Bangladesh•AFP

Vithanage fell for 35, but Sangakkara remained unfazed and reached his ninth double-century, the joint second-highest in Tests behind Sir Don Bradman•AFP

Shakib eventually picked up five wickets, but leaked 148 runs from the 34 overs of spin he hurled down•AFP

Bangladesh lost Tamim Iqbal in the fourth ball of their innings, but Shamsur Rahman and Imrul Kayes added 86 for the second wicket to make sure the team did not suffer any more damage in the day•AFP

Together with Kithuruwan Vithanage, he added 90 for the sixth wicket and helped Sri Lanka past the 400-run mark•AFP

Ajantha Mendis enforced further misery upon the hosts, scoring 47 and put up a 100-run stand with Sangakkara as Sri Lanka crossed 500•AFP

With only the tail remaining, Bangladesh would have liked to keep the score down as low as possible, but Sangakkara scored 116 runs in the company of the last three batsmen•AFP

It was a day when just about nothing went right for Bangladesh. Apart from their struggle for wickets, they also conceded five penalty runs after a throw from Tamim Iqbal towards the stumps inadvertently hit the keeper's helmet•AFP

Sangakkara ultimately finished with 319- his maiden triple-hundred- and in the process, became the fastest batsmen to 11000 Test runs as Sri Lanka finished at a mammoth 587•AFP