CHATTOGRAM, Bangladesh (AP) — Pace bowler Vishwa Fernando took two wickets and Sri Lanka consolidated its strong position in the second cricket test by reducing Bangladesh to 115-4 at lunch on the third day Monday, leaving the home side trailing by more than 400 runs.

Sri Lanka,

which won the first test

, posted 531 in its first innings when six batters had half-centuries.

Fernando claimed the wicket of Zakir Hasan, who scored 54 after Bangladesh resumed at 55-1. Zakir began the day by hitting Sri Lanka skipper Dhananjaya de Silva for a boundary and then took on pacer Lahiru Kumara to keep the scoreboard going.

Bangladesh skipper Najmul Hossan Shanto left the team in trouble by clipping a ball straight to short mid-wicket when left-arm spinner Prabath Jayasuriya (1-31) turned one sharply.

On the stroke of lunch, Fernando struck again by dismissing nightwatchman Taijul for 22.

Mominul Haque (2) and Shakib Al Hasan (6), playing his first test in a year, were in the crease at the first interval of the day as Bangladesh trailed by 416 runs.

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