Bangladesh v Sri Lanka, 2013-14

At Mirpur, February 17, 2014 (day/night). First one-day international: Sri Lanka won by 13 runs. Reduced to 43 overs a side. Sri Lanka 180 (40 overs) (N. L. T. C. Perera 80*, S. M. S. M. Senanayake 30); ‡Bangladesh 167 (39.2 overs) (Shamsur Rahman 62, Mominul Haque 44; A. D. Mathews 3-21). MoM: N. L. T. C. Perera. ODI debuts: Al-Amin Hossain, Arafat Sunny. Tissara Perera scripted a famous recovery to lift Sri Lanka from 67-8 in the 22nd over to 180, which they defended in thrilling fashion. Seamers Rubel Hossain and Al-Amin Hossain had dismissed the top three cheaply, before slow left-armers Arafat Sunny and Shakib Al Hasan joined in with two apiece, plus a shared run-out. Perera saw no sense in caution when the eighth wicket fell: the match pivoted in the next over when he slammed a four and three sixes off Arafat, though the first of those sixes might have been caught at the long-on rope instead of parried over it. Perera hustled 80 from 57 balls, walloping six sixes in all, and adding 82 with Senanayake. Even so, Bangladesh appeared to be cruising at 114-2 until Shamsur Rahman's run-out sparked a slide of 8-53; Angelo Mathews and Senanayake scuttled the chase, with five scalps between them.