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Shares that that they had a talk in the dressing room and searching ahead to this game. Informs about a few adjustments of their XI – Thisara Perera and Oshada Fernando are in for Angelo Mathews and Kamindu Mendis. Pitch report – Brilliant sunshine and a robust breeze blowing throughout the stadium.

The SL vs WI Tests played in the tour will kind a part of the World Test Championship and the ODI series will form part of the ICC Cricket World Cup Super League. The tour consists of three-match T20I sequence followed by a three-match ODI collection and will conclude with two Test matches. In between, the the pair eschewed all risk and ground down the West Indies bowlers in what was an obstinate yet effective show. And so it wanted to be, with the West Indian bowlers who, whereas visibly tiring, never gave away simple runs. In the absence of swing – no less than far lower than on the first two days – their bowlers continued to probe outdoors off.

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Rahkeem Cornwall of West Indies batting against England at Old Trafford in 2020. A 56-run second wicket partnership between John Campbell and Nkrumah Bonner was one of the best effort by the West Indies top order. But veteran Sri Lanka paceman Suranga Lakmal made inroads into the West Indies lineup, taking 5-forty five, his fourth five-wicket bag in tests. “I was confident. I’ve been placing in some work within the nets with the batting coach and I advised myself I have to attain some runs, I’m not doing in addition to I can do with the bat.”

That partnership had begun within the sixth over of the innings, after captain Dimuth Karunaratne had edged a wide Kemar Roach delivery to 3rd slip. At that time Sri Lanka, who had picked up the last two West Indian wickets cheaply throughout the first quarter-hour of the day, have been still trailing by 94 runs. Wickekeeper Da Silva made forty six and held together the West Indies lower center order as they edged previous Sri Lanka’s first innings of 169. The home side matched that total with six wickets down and Cornwall and Da Silva carried them to at stumps.

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Sri Lanka, skittled out for 169 in their first innings, will begin Wednesday’s play 153 runs forward with six wickets in hand. By the time Oshada edged a probing outswinger – falling nine runs in need of a second Test century – to turn into Mayers’ maiden Test wicket, that deficit had remodeled to a sixty eight-run lead. Mayers produced a perfect out-swinger along with his first ball to lure Fernando ahead and get a thick edge via to wicketkeeper Joshua da Silva for a first Test wicket. An impressed bowling change led to part-time medium pacer Kyle Mayers grabbing two wickets whereas Kemar Roach took the other as they put a short lived brake on the visitors’ batting. They are in a wholesome position even after the West Indies bowlers fought again with three quick wickets after tea to halt a dominant batting efficiency. Sri Lanka are coming into this two match series on the again of poor-run.

His boundaries, uncommon as they have been, had been nonetheless exquisite in their execution – be it a back foot punch by way of cover point, or textbook drives by way of mid-off. But along with the aforementioned lack of swing, the Sri Lankan batsmen too have been applying themselves far more adroitly. The blueprint for what is needed, nonetheless, was mapped out earlier in the day by Oshada and Thirimanne, with the pair’s patience having for lengthy intervals blunted regardless of the hosts threw at them. The West Indies had been when Joshua was out shortly earlier than stumps, caught behind after being lured right into a unfastened shot by a short ball from Dushmantha Chameera. Chasing 161 to seal the sequence, West Indies were bowled out for just 117.

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