Nayeem Hasan and Shadman Islam stepped up for Bangladesh in the back end of a Test match, a period that has been often thorny for them. The game threatened to slip away in Galle too, when Milan Rathnayake and Kamindu Mendis added 84 for the seventh wicket.

Galle: After four days of hard-fought, seesaw Test cricket at the Galle International Stadium, the first Test between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh remains delicately poised with all three

Sri Lanka has reached 100 for one at lunch on Day 3 of the first cricket test in a composed response to Bangladesh’s first-innings total of 495.