Bangladeshi cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2002
	Sri Lanka	Bangladesh
Dates	21 July – 7 Aug
Captains	Sanath Jayasuriya	Khaled Mashud
Test series
Result	Sri Lanka won the 2-match series 2–0
Most runs	Sanath Jayasuriya (230)	Al Sahariar (98)
Most wickets	Muttiah Muralitharan (10)	Manjural Islam (5) Talha Jubair (5)
One Day International series
Results	Sri Lanka won the 3-match series 3–0
Most runs	Marvan Atapattu (134)	Khaled Mashud (106)
Most wickets	Muttiah Muralitharan (6)	Khaled Mahmud (5)
Player of the series	Khaled Mashud

Bangladesh made its first Test tour of Sri Lanka in July–August 2002, playing 2 Tests and 3 One Day Internationals (ODIs). Sri Lanka won all five matches to whitewash Bangladesh in both the Test and the ODI series. Sri Lanka was captained by Sanath Jayasuriya and Bangladesh was captained by Khaled Mashud in both the formats.

Test series

1st Test

21–23 July 2002 Scorecard

Bangladesh	v	Sri Lanka
161 (53.4 overs) Hannan Sarkar 55 (69) Muttiah Muralitharan 5/39 (19.4 overs)		541/9d (111 overs) Aravinda de Silva 206 (234) Enamul Haque 4/144 (38 overs)
184 (66.3 overs) Al Sahariar 67 (123) Muttiah Muralitharan 5/59 (25 overs)

Sri Lanka won by an innings and 196 runs Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and David Shepherd (Eng) Player of the match: Muttiah Muralitharan

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.

2nd Test

28–31 July 2002 Scorecard

Sri Lanka	v	Bangladesh
373 (106.4 overs) Michael Vandort 61 (110) Manjural Islam 3/46 (23 overs)		164 (62 overs) Tapash Baisya 52* (103) Sanath Jayasuriya 3/17 (7 overs)
263/2d (66 overs) Michael Vandort 140 (185) Talha Jubair 1/52 (14 overs)		184 (60.4 overs) Mohammad Ashraful 75 (120) Sujeewa de Silva 4/35 (13 overs) Thilan Samaraweera 4/49 (11.4 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 288 runs Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: Steve Bucknor (WI) and David Shepherd (Eng) Player of the match: Michael Vandort

• Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field.
• Sri Lanka won the 2-match series 2-0

ODI series

1st ODI

4 August (scorecard)

Bangladesh  226/8 (50 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 228/5 (44.4 overs)
Tushar Imran 61 (85) Dilhara Fernando 2/33 (10 overs)		Marvan Atapattu 83 (101) Khaled Mahmud 2/41 (10 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets (with 32 balls remaining) Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: Steve Bucknor (WI) & Asoka de Silva (SRI) Player of the match: Marvan Atapattu

• Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat.

2nd ODI

5 August (scorecard)

Bangladesh  76 (30.1 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 77/2 (15.4 overs)
Khaled Mashud 15 (46) Upul Chandana 3/2 (3.1 overs)		Marvan Atapattu 31 (40) Mohammad Rafique 1/16 (3 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets (with 206 balls remaining) Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: Steve Bucknor (WI) & Tyron Wijewardene (SRI) Player of the match: Dilhara Fernando

• Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat.
• Bangladesh's score of 76 was their lowest ODI score ever.

3rd ODI

7 August (scorecard)

Sri Lanka  258/6 (50 overs)	v	Bangladesh 200 (47.2 overs)
Russel Arnold 62 (64) Khaled Mahmud 3/51 (10 overs)		Habibul Bashar 52 (98) Muttiah Muralitharan 3/24 (10 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 58 runs R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Steve Bucknor (WI) & Peter Manuel (SRI) Player of the match: Russel Arnold

• Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field.
• Sri Lanka won the 3-match ODI series 3-0.

Records and statistics

Batting

Test
Player	Nat	Matches	Innings	Runs	NO	Ave.	SR	HS	100	50	4s	6s
Sanath Jayasuriya		2	2	230	0	115.00	89.14	145	1	1	22	7
Aravinda de Silva		1	1	206	0	206.00	88.03	206	1	0	28	1
Michael Vandort		1	2	201	0	100.50	68.13	140	1	1	26	1
Naveed Nawaz		1	2	99	1	99.00	51.56	78*	0	1	11	0
Al Sahariar		2	4	98	0	24.50	52.12	67	0	1	18	0
ODI
Player	Nat	Matches	Innings	Runs	NO	Ave.	SR	HS	100	50	4s	6s
Marvan Atapattu		3	3	134	1	67.00	79.76	83	0	1	17	1
Khaled Mashud		3	3	106	0	35.33	56.08	54	0	1	8	1
Russel Arnold		3	2	91	1	91.00	75.20	62	0	1	6	2
Tushar Imran		3	3	71	0	23.66	64.54	61	0	1	8	1
Habibul Bashar		3	3	64	0	21.33	45.71	52	0	1	4	0
Source: Cricinfo[1][2]

Bowling

Test
Player	Nat	Matches	Innings	Wickets	Overs	Runs	Econ.	Ave.	BBI	5WI	10WI
Muthiah Muralidaran		1	2	10	44.4	98	2.19	9.8	5/39	2	1
Sujeewa de Silva		2	4	7	48.0	146	3.04	20.85	4/35	0	0
Thilan Samaraweera		1	2	6	23.4	67	2.82	11.16	4/49	0	0
Manjurul Islam		2	3	5	57.0	202	3.54	40.40	3/46	0	0
Talha Jubair		2	3	5	56.4	246	4.34	49.20	2/74	0	0
ODI
Player	Nat	Matches	Innings	Wickets	Overs	Runs	Econ.	Ave.	BBI	4WI	5WI
Muthiah Muralidaran		3	3	6	28.2	87	3.07	14.50	3/24	0	0
Hasantha Fernando		3	3	5	19.0	54	2.84	10.80	3/12	0	0
Khaled Mahmud		3	2	5	20.0	92	4.60	18.40	3/51	0	0
Upul Chandana		2	2	4	12.1	47	3.86	11.75	3/2	0	0
Dilhara Fernando		2	2	4	16.0	54	3.37	13.50	2/21	0	0
Source: Cricinfo[3][4]