DHAKA: Sri Lankan captain Angelo Mathews’ knock kept Bangladesh winless in the 2014 Asia Cup.

On the way of chasing down Tigers’ 204 for 9, Mathews played a captain’s knock of 74-run and won the game by three wickets at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur on Thursday.

PC de Silva and HDRL Thirimanne scored 44 and 33 runs respectively.

Al Amin Hossain took two Lanka wickets while Ziaur Rahman, Arafat Sunny and Mahmudullah took one wicket each.

Earlier, Bangladesh scored 204 runs for nine wickets in their 50-over in the last round-robin fixture in the Asia Cup.

Opener Anamul Haque scored 49 runs while Nasir Hossain and Mahmudullah scored 30 runs each.

RAS Lakmal, NLTC Perera, BAW Mendis and SMA Priyanjan took two wickets each while PC de Silva took one wicket.         

Earlier in the day, Bangladesh captain won the toss and elected to bat first.

The day/night match kicked-off at 2:00pm.

Bangladesh squad
Anamul Haque†, Shamsur Rahman, Mominul Haque, Mushfiqur Rahim*, Shakib Al Hasan, Nasir Hossain, Mahmudullah, Ziaur Rahman, Arafat Sunny, Rubel Hossain, Al-Amin Hossain    

Sri Lanka squad
MDKJ Perera, HDRL Thirimanne, KC Sangakkara†, DPMD Jayawardene, SMA Priyanjan, AD Mathews*, PC de Silva, NLTC Perera, SMSM Senanayake, BAW Mendis, RAS Lakmal

BDST: 2155 HRS, MAR 06, 2014