'Win gives back our confidence'

On way to making an unbeaten 161, Tillakaratne Dilshan overtook Aravinda de Silva as Sri Lanka's highest individual scorer in a World Cup match. De Silva hit 145 against Kenya in the 1996 World Cup which the in-form Dilshan erased from the record books yesterday in style, but the right-hander said he did not know about the record until the post-match conference.

"I don't know. I came to know only now that I broke the record [of Aravinda]. I'm not thinking of records, I just try to bat as long as possible for the country. But it's great creating records as well. I will try to do a lot more in this tournament," Dilshan said when his attention was drawn about the mark.

He however refused to label Bangladesh's bowling as his happy hunting attack as this was his fourth hundred in last nine innings against the Tigers.

"Not only Bangladesh, I think in the last two months I scored four hundreds; two in New Zealand, just missed one last time by four or something. I'm really enjoying every team, not only Bangladesh, every bowling attack. When I go in to bat I just try to do my things and just go forward and bat as long as possible," Dilshan responded to a question with a smile.

Dilshan said that the game against Bangladesh was important for them after losing the first game against New Zealand and posting a hard-fought victory against Afghanistan and said the win gave back the team its confidence, especially the bowling unit.

Dilshan also highly praised the effort of Kumar Sangakkara, who hammered an aggressive hundred and associated 210 runs in the unbroken second wicket stand to dismiss Bangladesh's any hope of making their first appearance at the famous MCG a memorable one.

Dilshan was however not ready to judge their win against Bangladesh as a turning point for them.