Sri Lanka complete easy victory
First Test, Colombo (SSC), day five:
Sri Lanka 577-6 dec beat Bangladesh 89 & 254 by an innings and 234 runs
Sri Lanka needed just 30 minutes on day four of the first Test in Colombo to complete a crushing innings and 234-run victory over Bangladesh.
Resuming on 233-5, the visitors were shot out for 254 as Lasith Malinga and Muttiah Muralitharan cleaned up the tail at the Sinhalese Sports Club.
Paceman Malinga took three of the last five wickets to finish with 4-80 and Muralitharan claimed the other two.It was Sri Lanka's biggest win over Bangladesh in eight Test meetings.
And it enabled them to maintain a 100% Test record against their opponents.
They have been so dominant against Bangladesh that none of their matches has ever gone into a fifth day - four have ended in three days - and five of their wins have come by an innings.
It was Bangladesh's 41st defeat in 47 matches since they gained Test status in 2000, with their lone win coming against struggling Zimbabwe.
Muralitharan, who finished with 4-87 to go with his 5-15 in the first innings, now has 59 wickets in seven Tests against Bangladesh.
The 35-year-old's career tally stands at 683, just 25 away from equalling retired Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne's world record of 708 wickets.
Sri Lanka struck with the day's 10th delivery when Malinga yorked Khaled Mashud for one after Bangladesh had added just five runs to their overnight score.
Mashrafe Mortaza hit two boundaries in his nine before he became Muralitharan's third victim, trapped lbw after being deceived by a slower one.
Malinga then dismissed Saqib Al Hasan and Mohammad Rafique in the same over before Muralitharan sealed Bangladesh's fate by having Shahadat Hossain stumped.
They will now be looking to seal overall victory in the best of three series when the second starts at the P. Saravanamuttu Stadium in the Sri Lankan capital next Tuesday.
Sri Lanka beat Bangladesh by an innings and 234 runs
Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to field
Bangladesh 1st Innings
89 all out (32.3 overs)
Bangladesh 2nd Innings
254 all out (87.1 overs)
Sri Lanka 1st Innings
577 for 6 (135.5 overs)
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