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Sports Reporter

Mighty Sri Lanka will take on confident and spirited Zimbabwe today in the second match of the Grameenphone Tri-Nation Cricket Tournament at the Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium. The match starts at 9.00 AM.

Earlier. Zimbabwe defeated Bangladesh in the opening match of the tournament by 38 runs at the same venue on January 10.

It is mentionable that Sri Lanka whitewashed Zimbabwe by 3-0 one and a half months ago. But the African side fought against Sri Lanka in the outgoing three ODI matches and they lost to their migty counterpart by marginal difference. Zimbabwe lost to the tourists by five runs in the first ODI and then, the African side were defeated by their stronger Asian counterpart by two wickets in the second ODI. Zimbabwe lost to Sri Lanka by 19 runs in the last ODI match.

Spirited Zimbabwe almost confirmed their final berth beating Bangladesh by 38 runs in the first match of the tournament.

Besides, Zimbabwe started their Bangladesh campaign with a happy note as the African side thrashed GP-BCB National Academy by 195 runs in the practice three-dayer match on January 8.