It was another heartbreaking defeat, and there were tearful faces once again as Soumya Sarkar knelt, broken and face down on the R Premadasa Stadium turf after Dinesh Karthik bludgeoned a flat six that just made it over the extra cover rope when five runs were needed off the last ball to win the T20I tri-series Nidahas Trophy final last night in Colombo.

Interim Bangladesh head Courtney Walsh dragged away 12th man Nurul Hasan who engaged in a verbal clash with Sri Lankan opener Kusal Mendis -- who was being restrained by Tamim Iqbal -- after Mahmudullah Riyad struck a deep six over the square leg region to clinch a scintillating two-wicket win that knocked Sri Lanka out of the Nidahas Trophy and powered Bangladesh to the final at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo yesterday.

When Mahmudullah Riyad, in his inimitable manner, flicked Thisara Perera for a massive six over square leg he not only won the