Ramesh Mendis took 5 wickets and Prabath Jayasuriya grew to become the fastest-ever spinner to 50 Test wickets Friday as Sri Lanka thrashed Ireland by an innings and 10 runs within the second Test.
The host swept the two-match sequence in Galle 2-0, recording ts one hundredth Test win and leaving the vacationer nonetheless searching for a primary victory in cricket’s longest format.
Harry Tector fought a lone last-day rearguard motion to attempt to bat out a draw, scoring 85 and mounting a 41-run stand for the ninth wicket, however Mendis took 5-64 as Ireland have been bowled out for 202 of their second innings.
Asitha Fernando bowled Tector with a yorker to finish the resistance and accounted for final man Ben White with the very subsequent ball to wrap up one other emphatic win in model.
The customer posted 492 of their first innings — among the many highest-ever scores to be adopted by an innings defeat.
After Sri Lanka declared on 704-3, Ireland resumed its second innings on 54-2, hoping to carry on for a draw on a monitor nonetheless good for batting.
But Jayasuriya dismissed Paul Stirling within the fourth over of the morning to change into the quickest-ever spinner to take 50 wickets, in simply seven Tests.
Fellow left-armer Alf Valentine of West Indies had taken eight video games to the milestone greater than seven a long time earlier.
Mendis eliminated first-innings centurion Curtis Campher when he swept one straight into the fingers of Kusal Mendis at leg-slip, and took his third wicket of the innings when captain Andy Balbirnie drove one straight to Angelo Mathews at mid-off on 46.
Mendis then dismissed Andy McBrine and Graham Hume in successive overs to assert his fourth five-wicket haul.
Sri Lanka gained the primary Test by an innings and 280 runs.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com