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Batting first in this match, Bangladesh scored 495 runs with a 264 -run partnership led by captain Najmul Hussain Shanto (148) and Mushfiqur Rahim (163). Sri Lanka also gave a very strong reply, which included a century of 187 runs in 256 balls of Pathum Nisanka, which includes the top five of the first class average active batsmen. Despite the brilliant century of Pathum Nisanka (187), the hosts took a 10 -run lead in the first innings.

Bangladesh played 87 overs in their second innings which took most of the time of the last day. Shanto scored an unbeaten 125 runs, making him only the 18th Test captain to score a century in both innings and became the first Bangladeshi captain to achieve the feat. With 39 overs remaining, Bangladesh gave Sri Lanka a target of 296 runs. At one time the hosts were reduced to 48–4 in the 24th over, but Kamindu Mendis and captain Dhananjay D. Silva ensured that they finish the match on a draw.

As a result of the draw, both teams opened their accounts in this World Test Championship cycle. Both teams got four points. After this match, the points of both teams are 33.33. The last time Sri Lanka was in the race to make it to the final. However, his position deteriorated due to the defeat in the series against South Africa and Australia, and he finished sixth with 38.46 PCT, slightly ahead of Bangladesh, with 31.25.

Now India and England have a chance that they can become number one in the points table, provided any one of them will have to win this first match because if the first Test ends on the draw, then the four teams will come on par.