NZTailender
I can't believe I ate the whole thing
Great stuff! Well deserved hundred 
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**Official** Bangladesh in Sri Lanka
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Well I think PJ atleast did good by following team orders and giving Vass the chance. now with rain forecast I hope this lasts 5 days
NZTailender
I can't believe I ate the whole thing
NZTailender
I can't believe I ate the whole thing
Vaas opening the bowling after a century. WAG.
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Nafees and Saleh to combine in a 400 run partnership TBH.
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NZTailender
I can't believe I ate the whole thing
Saleh, you mean? And that'd be grand.
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Ah, woopsies. Yes it sure would be, Ashraful to chip in with a century as well.
chaminda_00
Hall of Fame Member
A great day for the CVAAS 
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I suppose that balances out the travesty that is Prasanna Jayawardene's Test century?A great day for the CVAAS
chaminda_00
Hall of Fame Member
TBH its not as bad a Gillespie double hundred, but as Gillespie enjoyed his moment so should PJ. His waited his whole career for it TBF.
Jungle Jumbo
International Vice-Captain
Bangladesh's lack of exposure to the longer form of the game is being shown here. He's probably their best player, but Mashrafe Mortaza is a prime example: before the Tests against India, he'd bowled just 12.4 overs in any match longer than 50 overs. All in all, outside of Test cricket, he's played just eight First-Class matches: five NCL games for Khulna, two warm-up games in England in 2005 and a match for Bangladesh A vs Sri Lanka A in March last year. In his career so far, he's played 75 List A and ODI games, plus countless DPL and CCL domestic games in Bangladesh. There simply isn't enough 3- and 4-day cricket played.
Below shows the number of FC and List A matches played by the two elevens currently playing in Colombo, minus Tests and ODIs.
Several of the players cannot have their records compared: Bashar, Mashud, Rafique and Javed played a significant proportion of their career before Bangladesh had Test and domestic FC/List A status; some of the Sri Lankans (Warnapura, Vandort, Prasanna Jayawardene) have played minimal international cricket. What it does show, however, is how little exposure to the longer form of the game Bangladesh are receiving. The Mashrafe/Malinga case is probably the best example: two fast bowlers, of the same age, have contrasting records (Mashrafe was injured for a year or so, but his record wouldn't have been substantially different).
Below shows the number of FC and List A matches played by the two elevens currently playing in Colombo, minus Tests and ODIs.
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Age FC ListA Age FC ListA
Javed Omar 30 42 35 MG Vandort 27 98 62
Shahariar Nafees 21 16 6 BSM Warnapura 28 106 72
Rajin Saleh 23 38 30 KC Sangakkara 29 79 58
Habibul Bashar 34 30 38 DPMD Jayawardene 30 78 58
Mohammad Ashraful 22 37 30 LPC Silva 27 98 93
Shakib Al Hasan 20 13 8 TM Dilshan 30 125 65
Khaled Mashud 31 41 50 HAPW Jayawardene 27 121 88
Shahadat Hossain 20 25 11 WUPJC Vaas 33 72 48
[COLOR="red"]Mashrafe Mortaza 23 8 7[/COLOR] [COLOR="red"]SL Malinga 23 47 22[/COLOR]
Mohammad Rafique 36 23 35 M Muralitharan 35 95 79
Abdur Razzak 25 36 40 CRD Fernando 27 57 41
PhoenixFire
International Coach
What a gun Vaas is, well deserved.
If you were a cricketing Rip van Winkle who fell asleep after BD's first Test in SL (Ashrafal's debut) and woke up days before this one you'd think BD have made no progress in the nearly six years since - and to be honest in Test cricket they haven't. They prioritised ODIs to prepare for the WC and have improved there but in Tests they still tread water. Vass does a "Gilespie" and the only difference between this Test and the 2001 match is that no SL batsman retired bored this time. Ashrafal to do what he did in that match? Probably won't matter wehter he does or not...
SightForTheGods
Cricket Spectator
Vaas deserved that century. Similar to how Pollock deserved his ODI century.
Now, it will be fun if Ashraful puts some life into the second innings.
Now, it will be fun if Ashraful puts some life into the second innings.
alternative
Cricket Web Content Updater
Indeed, it was a good opening partnership too.
Murali currently going at an economy rate of 4.75 after 7 overs.
