Dilshan completes withering victory

Tillakaratne Dilshan sweeps fine in the second century that broke Bangladesh's back in Chittagong

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Tillakaratne Dilshan sealed a memorable match by adding four wickets to his twin centuries to help Sri Lanka crush Bangladesh by 465 runs on day four of the second Test in Chittagong.

The 32-year-old followed his 162 in the first innings with a commanding 143, to take the tourists to 447 for six when the tourists’ declaration finally arrived at the lunch interval.

Dilshan's feat made him only the fourth Sri Lankan, after Duleep Mendis, Asanka Gurusinha and Aravinda de Silva, to score two centuries in a Test.

That left Bangladesh chasing a preposterous victory target of 624 and they made predictably little headway, collapsing to 158 all out.

It constituted the fifth heaviest defeat in Test history in terms of runs and sealed a 2-0 series win for the tourists.

Dilshan was on 81 this morning when he resumed his partnership with Thilan Samaraweera, with Sri Lanka 296 for four overnight.

They added 145 for the fifth wicket before Samaraweera was dismissed lbw by Shakib Al Hasan for 77 with a ball that hit him in line with off stump.

Dilshan continued to pile the misery on the home side and cracked Shahadat Hossain wide of backward point to bring up his century.

His wicket finally fell with the Sri Lanka total on 396 when Enamul Haque Jnr clipped his off stump.

Chamara Kapugedara (57 not out) and Chaminda Vaas (19no) added 51 more in an unbroken stand to take the Sri Lankan advantage to over 600 before the declaration was finally made.

Injured for Mirpur, Ajantha Mendis swooped with seven wickets in the second Test

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Bangladesh, who made just 208 in their first innings, then had their batting frailties exposed by Sri Lanka’s mystery spinner Ajantha Mendis.

Imrul Kayes (seven) found Mahela Jayawardene at slip in Mendis’ first over and Tamim Iqbal (17) edged behind off Vaas.

Junaid Siddique (four) was trapped lbw by a straight one from Mendis, before Prasanna Jayawardene claimed his second catch and Mendis his third wicket to remove Mohammad Ashraful.

Raqibul Hasan (10) was then bowled by Dilhara Fernando to leave the Bangladesh innings in disarray at 62 for five at tea.

At last Bangladesh showed some fight after the interval, with Mushfiqur Rahim and Shakib combing to put on 92 for the sixth wicket.

However, captain Mahela Jayawardene turned to the part-time off-spin of Dilshan and Bangladesh crumbled.

First, Dilshan had Shakib (46) stumped, before dismissing Mehrab Hossain jnr for five and Mashrafe Mortaza without scoring in the same over.

In his next over he bowled Shahadat for a single and was only denied a maiden five-wicket haul when Mushfiqur was run out for 43.

Figures of 4-10 were still the best of Dilshan’s career and he was named man of the match and man of the series for his all-round efforts.