GALLE (Sri Lanka): Nishan Madushka and Kusal Mendis each made double centuries towards Ireland Thursday as Sri Lanka’s high 4 batsmen all hit tons of for under the third time in Test historical past.
The hosts declared their first innings on 704 for 3 after tea on the fourth day of the second Test, 212 runs forward.
Sri Lanka had simply over a day to safe a win and a 2-0 collection victory that will preserve the guests’ one hundred pc shedding file in Tests.
Madushka transformed his maiden Test century right into a double hundred when he minimize Matthew Humphreys for 4, turning into the second-youngest Sri Lankan to attain a Test 200 after Mahela Jayawardene.
He was dismissed for 205 within the third over after lunch, lbw to Andy McBrine, with Ireland efficiently reviewing the choice after the preliminary attraction was turned down.
Madushka’s marathon knock lasted six minutes wanting eight hours after he confronted 339 deliveries and hit 22 fours and a six.
Mendis, Sri Lanka’s captain-in-waiting who had twice been dismissed within the 190s, reached his first Test 200 by pushing a Ben White supply behind sq. to steal a single.
He amassed 245 runs and was one wanting Wasim Akram’s world file of 12 sixes in a Test innings earlier than he was caught at long-off making an attempt to equal that mark.
Angelo Mathews was dismissed for a duck within the first Test and was put down on one this match, however made probably the most of his reprieve to put up his sixteenth Test hundred.
That gave the hosts their quadruple-centurions entry within the historical past books, after India towards Bangladesh in 2007 and Pakistan towards Sri Lanka in 2019.
Captain Dimuth Karunaratne, who scored 115 on Wednesday, declared instantly.
Their whole of 704 for 3 was additionally the highest-ever rating in Galle, eclipsing Bangladesh’s 638 all out in 2013.
The hosts declared their first innings on 704 for 3 after tea on the fourth day of the second Test, 212 runs forward.
Sri Lanka had simply over a day to safe a win and a 2-0 collection victory that will preserve the guests’ one hundred pc shedding file in Tests.
Madushka transformed his maiden Test century right into a double hundred when he minimize Matthew Humphreys for 4, turning into the second-youngest Sri Lankan to attain a Test 200 after Mahela Jayawardene.
He was dismissed for 205 within the third over after lunch, lbw to Andy McBrine, with Ireland efficiently reviewing the choice after the preliminary attraction was turned down.
Madushka’s marathon knock lasted six minutes wanting eight hours after he confronted 339 deliveries and hit 22 fours and a six.
Mendis, Sri Lanka’s captain-in-waiting who had twice been dismissed within the 190s, reached his first Test 200 by pushing a Ben White supply behind sq. to steal a single.
He amassed 245 runs and was one wanting Wasim Akram’s world file of 12 sixes in a Test innings earlier than he was caught at long-off making an attempt to equal that mark.
Angelo Mathews was dismissed for a duck within the first Test and was put down on one this match, however made probably the most of his reprieve to put up his sixteenth Test hundred.
That gave the hosts their quadruple-centurions entry within the historical past books, after India towards Bangladesh in 2007 and Pakistan towards Sri Lanka in 2019.
Captain Dimuth Karunaratne, who scored 115 on Wednesday, declared instantly.
Their whole of 704 for 3 was additionally the highest-ever rating in Galle, eclipsing Bangladesh’s 638 all out in 2013.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com