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ICC World Test Championship After a draw in Galle, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh lock horns in Colombo to decide who will take this series home. The last match was also the swansong of the iconic  Angelo Mathews  who finished his 119 match Test career at the same ground he made his debut in. A career that should be celebrated, Mathews was part of many historic wins his country in red-ball cricket. However, he could not capitalize on placid wicket in his last Test match after he scored 39 & 8 and got out to two cracking deliveries. The match in totality though did not have enough for the bowlers to force a win for the visitors. It was a remarkable performance from captain  Najmul Hasan Shanto  who was abruptly removed from ODI captaincy just days before this series and might quit Test captaincy as well because of how the events panned out. Shanto led from the front after his team was in a tricky situation in first innings at 45-3 after opting to bat first. He partner...

ICC World Test Championship Bangladesh and Sri Lanka will inaugurate the WTC 2025-27 in Galle. This two-match tie between these two teams has been synonymous from the start of the World Test Championship with Sri Lanka hosting in 2019 and Bangladesh hosting the last two. Sri Lanka has bagged the series each times winning four and drawing two. The two matches will be hosted by Galle starting on 17th June and Colombo starting on 25th June. The last time these two sides met in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh managed to score a draw in the first game and then Sri Lanka managed to score a win in the next. They will be hoping to finally register their second win against Sri Lanka and the first in WTC. This will be their best chance to set the record straight against the island nation. Sri Lanka lead Bangladesh 20-1 overall in 26 Tests they have played so far. Bangladesh are coming off a 1-1 series result against Zimbabwe while Sri Lanka last played Australia losing 2-0 in February. Sri Lanka is mi...