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Sri Lanka scent series win as New Zealand batting wilts – Sport



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GALLE: Sri Lanka were just five wickets away from a crushing second Test and series victory over New Zealand on Saturday, with the tourists 199-5 at stumps on the third day, having followed on after collapsing to 88 all out in their first innings.

Tom Blundell was not out on 47 and Glenn Phillips on 32 when bad light forced an early end to play at the Galle International Stadium after debutant off-spinner

Nishan Peiris took three top-order wickets.

“Obviously, the first innings wasn’t ideal. It was a bitter pill to swallow,” said Blundell afterwards. “Things were happening very quick. Sri Lanka are a very good team and their spinners bowled really well.”

Devon Conway, battling to save both his team and his place in the side, joined forces with former captain Kane Williamson in a dogged 97-run partnership for the second wicket.

De Silva lured Conway, who had made 61 off 62 balls, into a drive towards the vacant deep cover boundary that was caught by Dinesh Chandimal in a spectacular backward running catch.

Williamson, the world’s second-ranked batsman behind England’s Joe Root, departed when he misjudged a shot off Peiris, with Ramesh Mendis grabbing a tumbling catch at long-on.

Tom Latham had been the first wicket to fall after the follow-on was enforced just before lunch, caught by Pathum Nissanka for a duck at short leg off Peiris, who earlier had taken three first-innings wickets.

Sri Lanka declared on Friday on a mammoth 602-5 for their first innings, then spinner Prabath Jayasuriya took 6-42 for his ninth five-wicket haul as the visitors failed to get to three figures.

Jayasuriya will need to dismiss all five remaining New Zealand batsmen to equal the record for fastest bowler to 100 Test wickets, held since 1896 by England’s George Lohmann who reached the milestone in his 16th Test.

“I love bowling in Galle,” he said. “But that milestone looks out of reach now.

“Obviously when you have runs on the board you can dictate terms like we did today,” he added. “We will be delighted with a series win.”

Resuming at a precarious 22-2 in their first innings, New Zealand’s batsmen barely put up a fight and their highest partnership was the 20 added by last pair Mitchell Santner, who top scored with 29, and William O’Rourke (two).

Captain de Silva took five catches at first slip to tie the record for most in a Test innings by a non-wicketkeeper, a milestone shared with 15 others.

SCOREBOARD

SRI LANKA (1st Innings) 602-5 (K.D. Mendis 182 not out, D. Chandimal 116, K. Mendis 106 not out)

NEW ZEALAND (1st Innings, overnight 22-2):

T. Latham c Nissanka b Fernando 2

D. Conway c de Silva b Jayasuriya 9

K. Williamson c de Silva b Jayasuriya 7

A. Patel lbw Peiris 8

R. Ravindra b Peiris 10

D. Mitchell c Mathews b Jayasuriya 13

T. Blundell c de Silva b Jayasuriya 1

G. Phillips c de Silva b Jayasuriya 0

M. Santner b Peiris 29

T. Southee c de Silva b Jayasuriya 2

W. O’Rourke not out 2

EXTRAS (B-5) 5

TOTAL (all out, 39.5 overs) 88

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-2 (Latham), 2-19 (Conway), 3-24 (Williamson), 4-41 (Ravindra), 5-52 (Patel), 6-53 (Blundell), 7-53 (Phillips), 8-66 (Mitchell), 9-68 (Southee)

BOWLING: Fernando 4-1-8-1, Peiris 17.5-3-33-3, Jayasuriya 18-6-42-6

NEW ZEALAND (2nd Innings):

T. Latham c Nissanka b Peiris 0

D. Conway c Chandimal b de Silva 61

K. Williamson c (Sub) b Peiris 46

R. Ravindra b Peiris 12

D. Mitchell c Nissanka b Jayasuriya 1

T. Blundell not out 47

G. Phillips not out 32

EXTRAS (0)

TOTAL (for five wickets, 41 overs) 199

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-0 (Latham), 2-97 (Conway), 3-110 (Williamson), 4-113 (Mitchell), 5-121 (Ravindra)

STILL TO BAT: M. Santner, T. Southee, A. Patel, W. O’Rourke

BOWLING: Peiris 17-1-91-3, Jayasuriya 17-1-76-1, Fernando 2-0-8-0, Rathnayake 2-0-7-0, de Silva 3-0-17-1

Published in Dawn, September 29th, 2024



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