In the sixteenth match of ICC Cricket World Cup 2019, Bangladesh will take on Sri Lanka at The County Ground in Bristol today. Both the teams have one win from three matches.
Bangladesh's campaign kicked off with a win over South Africa but they couldn't maintain their momentum and lost next two matches against New Zealand and England. And to return to winning ways they need to improve in a few areas. Their opening duo of Tamim Iqbal and Soumya Sarkar have to give good start and in the lower order Mahmudullah, Mosaddek Hossain and Saifuddin need to do the finishers job.
Shakib Al Hasan is in great form and team will hope that he'll continue to score big runs and Mushfiqur Rahim too will join the party. In the bowling they need to work on their death overs skill and should play Rubel Hasan too.
On the other hand, Sri Lanka had a poor start of their campaign with a 10 wickets loss against New Zealand but they made a strong comeback against Afghanistan. Their openers Kusal Perera and Dimuth Karunaratne have got one fifty each and will aim for a big knock against Bangladesh. Middle order batsman Kusal Mendis, Angelo Mathews, Dananjaya de Silva and Thisara Perera have been disappointing so far.
In the bowling Lasith Malinga, Nuwan Pradeep, Isuru Udana have done well so far and they all will be keen to repeat the Afghanistan match performance against Bangladesh too.
All the major stats and facts ahead of match sixteen between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in Bristol :
Head to Head in ODIs -
Matches - 45
Bangladesh won - 7
Sri Lanka won - 36
No results - 2
1 - Mashrafe Mortaza has taken only 1 wicket at an average of 224 in his last 5 ODIs.
3 - Sri Lanka have won each of the three matches they played against Bangladesh in ODI World Cups.
24 - Lasith Malinga has taken 24 wickets at an average of 17.04 against Bangladesh in 14 ODIs.
50 - Mustafizur Rahman is likely make his 50th ODI appearance for Bangladesh. He has taken 87 wickets in 49 ODIs so far.
50 - Lasith Malinga needs 4 more wickets to complete 50 wickets in ODI World Cups. He will become the fourth bowler to achieve this milestone.
52.26 - Shakib Al Hasan's ODI bowling average against Sri Lanka. He has taken only 15 wickets in 22 ODIs.
6000 - Shakib Al Hasan needs 23 more runs to achieve the milestone of 6000 ODI runs.
