Training was optional and most of the senior cricketers spent time inside their hotel.

Muttiah Muralitharan arrived at the dining hall for a late breakfast with his newly wed wife, whose beauty and aura even overshadowed the master off-spinner's presence.

Veteran Sanath Jayasuriya, who is trying recover from a shoulder injury and was replaced by supersub Upul Chandana during the home side's fielding in Wednesday's game, was giving time to his daughter.

Chaminda Vaas could not avoid local journalists while those who were not picked in the first match, had light training.

Although most of his charges were relaxing, coach Tom Moody was thinking about whitewashing Bangladesh in the ODI series.

"We certainly don't want to go lightly because we can't take any risks against a side like Bangladesh. We've got faith in all 15 guys in the squad, but our aim is to win all three matches and with that in mind we don't want to weaken the side," said the tall Australian.

"There are few areas we would like to improve on and we hope to work on them during the next two matches."

"One of the areas we want to do well is to make sure that we score maximum runs during the powerplays. We didn't score as many as runs that we would have liked to score in the first game, but we are still learning like any other team.

Talking about Bangladesh's win over Australia, he said: "The bottom line is that that game in Cardiff highlighted that it's a two horse race. You should prepare well and if you don't you are going to come the second best.

"We would like to see consistency with the ball and then we have observed that the top order gets starts, but don't go on to make those three figure scores. We would like to change that."

In reply to a question, Moody said that they might go for one or two changes but that will not change their focus to go all out and take an invincible 2-0 lead.