Pak vs sl: charged sri lanka beef up lead regardless of dropping brief wickets sri lanka won a lead of 323 runs in 2d take a look at towards pakistan

 

PAK VS SRI 

Galle: skipper dimuth karunaratne and dhananjaya de silva scored 59 runs collectively in last session to complete day three of the second test towards pakistan on a excessive note. Karunaratne (27*) and silva (30*) appeared comfy as they pissed off pakistani bowlers after they picked up 5 wickets to get a few hopes around saving this test. Sri lanka scored 176-five to benefit a lead of 323 runs to put pakistan in a hunt of wickets at the fourth day. Naseem shah bagged two wickets while yasir shah, mohammad nawaz and agha salman shared a wicket apiece. Coming back from tea, naseem shah bagged in-form dinesh chadimal to present a sigh of alleviation to pakistani camp. Chandimal misread the outside off-stump shipping to provide a easy trap in the back of the stumps. Thereafter, karunaratne and silva shattered the hopes of pakistani bowlers to take wicket to quit day 3 with some excessive hopes. Pakistani bowlers remained looking for wickets but sri lanka steadily bolstered their cause 256 runs at tea. Angelo mathews, who is playing his one hundredth take a look at, confirmed his potential after sri lanka misplaced 3 wickets for 59 runs. The proper-handed veteran cricketer partnered with chandimal to score accessible forty one runs of fourth wicket partnership. He became batting at 35 runs whilst agha salman took a confident overview to eliminate him. A touch spike on the bat, which umpire did not hear, helped salman get his maiden check wicket. A assured evaluation grew to become in favour of pakistan as they decreased sri lanka to 109-four just before tea on day three. Simply after few overs being bowled in the 2nd consultation, naseem supplied a breakthrough to the traffic as he eliminated niroshan dickwella at the back of the stumps. Yasir and nawaz accompanied in naseem's footsteps to bag oshada fernando (19) and kusal mendis (15) in brief successions. Earlier, tailenders yasir and hassan ali tried to resist in opposition to in-form sri lankan bowling line but could not managed to live longer at the crease as pakistan have been bowled out for 231 in first innings of second check. Resuming at an in a single day rating of 191-7 on day three, yasir and hassan only managed to attain 31 runs together earlier than hassan fell to prabath jayasuriya. Hassan's short knock of 21 runs covered a maximum. Yasir was there inside the center for rescue however 9th wicket of nauman ali positioned him underneath stress. The right-exceeded batter, who had scored his only test century in australia, could not take care of stress and ramesh mendis removed him to finish his 0. 33 5-fer in test cricket. Mendis picked up a few important wickets to finish with five-47 in first innings. Jayasuriya bagged three wickets even as asitha fernando and dhananjaya de silva took a wicket each. With a lead of 147 runs, sri lankan openers provided a stead start to their group in-the front of shaheen afridi-much less bowling attack of pakistan. They scored 22 for none at lunch on day 3.