Overview

• Sri Lanka named an 18-member squad for the first Test with six uncapped players set to make their debuts in Galle.
• Angelo Mathews will play his final Test match at the Galle International Stadium, bringing his career full circle since his 2009 debut there.
• Dhananjaya de Silva retained the captaincy, leading a squad in transition after the retirements of Angelo Mathews and Dimuth Karunaratne.
• Bangladesh enters the series with Najmul Hossain Shanto as captain, welcoming Litton Das back from injury while Tamim Iqbal and Shakib Al Hasan remain absent.
• The two-Test series kicks off the new World Test Championship cycle and shifts to Colombo’s Sinhalese Sports Club for the second match from June 25.