Head to Head Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh

Sri Lanka played 1st One Day International match against Bangladesh on 2nd April 1986 at Kandy and Sri Lankan won that match by 07 wickets.

That match was 3rd Match of John Player Gold Leaf Trophy (Asia Cup).

Sri Lanka won the toss and choose to field first and restricted Bangladesh for 131/8 in 45 overs (45 Over Match), Sri Lanka chased the target in 31.3 Overs losing only 3 wickets. Asanka Gurusinghe was named the Man of the Match.

Starting from there Sri Lanka faced 49 matches against Bangladesh for the date.

Details	Facts
Matches Played	49
Sri Lanka Won	39
Bangladesh Won	7
No Results	0
Abandoned	1
Sri Lanka Win %	79.59%
Bangladesh Win %	14.29%

At last Sri Lanka meet Bangladesh on home soil in 2019 July for three One Day Internationals and Sri Lanka whitewashed Bangladesh by winning the Series by 3 – 0.

Top 5 Runs Scorers of the last series

Players	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	0	4s	6s
AD Mathews (SL)	3	3	1	187	87	93.5	199	93.96	0	2	0	18	1
MDKJ Perera (SL)	3	3	0	183	111	61	184	99.45	1	0	0	25	1
Mushfiqur Rahim (BDESH)	3	3	1	175	98*	87.5	211	82.93	0	2	0	12	1
BKG Mendis (SL)	3	3	1	138	54	69	181	76.24	0	1	0	13	1
FDM Karunaratne (SL)	3	3	0	97	46	32.33	126	76.98	0	0	0	11	0

Glad to see that Captain KJP and Mendis were in the top 5 positions but the senior batsman who scored the highest runs in the series was ruled out for the tour against Bangladesh.

Most wicket takers of the last series

Player	Mat	Inns	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5
Shafiul Islam (BDESH)	3	3	24	2	159	6	26.5	6.62	24	0	0
N Pradeep (SL)	2	2	19	1	104	5	20.8	5.47	22.8	0	0
Soumya Sarkar (BDESH)	3	3	16	0	89	4	22.25	5.56	24	0	0
Mustafizur Rahman (BDESH)	2	2	18	0	125	4	31.25	6.94	27	0	0
MD Shanaka (SL)	1	1	6	0	27	3	9	4.5	12	0	0

Unfortunately, Nuwan Pradeep who is the second-highest wicket-taker of the tournament and he is ruled out of the current squad.

Lets discuss on the overall statistics of the head to head matches.

Sri Lanka against Bangladesh

	Overall figures
	Player	Span	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	0
1	KC Sangakkara	2002-2015	31	28	3	1206	128	48.24	1367	88.22	5	6	1
2	ST Jayasuriya	1990-2009	22	21	2	1030	130	54.21	1037	99.32	4	5	1
3	WU Tharanga	2005-2018	22	22	2	906	118*	45.3	1126	80.46	3	5	2
4	TM Dilshan	2002-2015	24	21	5	859	161*	53.68	924	92.96	4	2	0
5	DPMD Jayawardene	2000-2015	26	21	3	547	108	30.38	655	83.51	1	2	2
6	MS Atapattu	1997-2006	10	9	4	452	83	90.4	547	82.63	0	5	0
7	MDKJ Perera	2013-2019	12	12	1	445	111	40.45	485	91.75	2	1	1
8	AD Mathews	2009-2019	14	11	5	406	87	67.66	471	86.19	0	4	0
9	BKG Mendis	2017-2019	10	9	1	345	102	43.12	425	81.17	1	2	1
10	PA de Silva	1986-2003	10	6	1	283	96*	56.6	302	93.7	0	2	0

Out of 10 players in the list only 2 were in the current squad namely Kusal Janith and Kusal Mendis.

	Overall figures
	Player	Span	Mat	Inns	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BBI	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5
1	M Muralitharan	1995-2010	17	17	159.4	16	534	31	31-May	17.22	3.34	30.9	1	1
2	SL Malinga	2004-2019	15	14	118	11	447	27	23-Apr	16.55	3.78	26.2	1	0
3	CRD Fernando	2002-2008	13	13	96.1	5	436	22	24-Apr	19.81	4.53	26.2	1	0
4	MF Maharoof	2004-2012	13	13	101	11	413	20	25-Mar	20.65	4.08	30.3	0	0
5	WPUJC Vaas	1995-2008	12	12	90.1	20	261	19	25-Jun	13.73	2.89	28.4	0	1
6	ST Jayasuriya	1990-2009	22	15	97.3	2	369	18	14-Apr	20.5	3.78	32.5	2	0
7	KMDN Kulasekara	2007-2017	15	13	92.3	8	474	18	Apr-37	26.33	5.12	30.8	1	0
8	RAS Lakmal	2010-2018	12	11	95.1	7	451	17	21-Mar	26.52	4.73	33.5	0	0
9	NLTC Perera	2010-2019	17	15	106.5	1	579	16	Mar-60	36.18	5.41	40	0	0
10	TM Dilshan	2002-2015	24	13	68	7	240	15	17-Mar	16	3.52	27.2	0	0

Bangladesh against Sri Lanka

Overall figures
Player	Span	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	0
Mushfiqur Rahim	2007-2019	30	28	1	783	144	29	1009	77.6	1	4	3
Tamim Iqbal	2007-2019	24	23	1	666	127	30.27	890	74.83	2	4	2
Shakib Al Hasan	2006-2018	22	20	2	607	92*	33.72	734	82.69	0	6	2
Mohammad Ashraful	2002-2013	26	25	1	573	75	23.87	894	64.09	0	4	3
Mahmudullah	2007-2019	27	24	3	429	76	20.42	605	70.9	0	1	1
Khaled Mashud	1995-2006	15	15	5	259	54	25.9	509	50.88	0	1	1
Nasir Hossain	2012-2018	10	9	3	243	73*	40.5	306	79.41	0	1	1
Habibul Bashar	1995-2007	15	15	1	233	52	16.64	462	50.43	0	1	1
Anamul Haque	2013-2019	11	10	0	224	49	22.4	326	68.71	0	0	2
Sabbir Rahman	2015-2019	10	9	1	221	60	27.62	246	89.83	0	3	1

	Overall figures
	Player	Span	Mat	Inns	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BBI	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5
1	Mashrafe Mortaza	2003-2018	22	22	184.5	14	966	26	25-Mar	37.15	5.22	42.6	0	0
2	Rubel Hossain	2009-2019	17	16	117.5	3	717	23	Apr-33	31.17	6.08	30.7	2	0
3	Abdur Razzak	2004-2013	15	14	122	0	687	19	May-62	36.15	5.63	38.5	0	1
4	Mohammad Rafique	1995-2007	15	15	120.5	3	565	17	Mar-61	33.23	4.67	42.6	0	0
5	Syed Rasel	2005-2010	13	13	114	10	550	16	28-Feb	34.37	4.82	42.7	0	0
6	Mustafizur Rahman	2017-2019	9	9	67	0	379	15	Mar-56	25.26	5.65	26.8	0	0
7	Shakib Al Hasan	2006-2018	22	21	168.2	7	784	15	Mar-47	52.26	4.65	67.3	0	0
8	Mahmudullah	2007-2019	27	19	94	1	499	9	28-Feb	55.44	5.3	62.6	0	0
9	Mehidy Hasan Miraz	2017-2019	8	8	75	2	382	9	21-Feb	42.44	5.09	50	0	0
10	Shafiul Islam	2010-2019	6	6	43	2	284	9	Mar-62	31.55	6.6	28.6	0	0

Considering all the statistics Sri Lanka way ahead of Bangladesh but most of the statistics are old and the current Sri Lankan Cricket team does not have players who are performed well against Bangladesh.

Therefore, Fans has to wait and see the performance of the Sri Lankan team headed by the Kusal Janith Perera.