Sri Lanka’s Dhananjaya de Silva and Prabath Jayasuriya because the match towards England will get suspended as a consequence of unhealthy mild at The Oval, London, Britain, Sept. 6, 2024.
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Sri Lanka stormed to a collection victory towards New Zealand, securing the two-match Check collection with an amazing innings and 154-run win on the fourth day on the Galle Worldwide Stadium.
This victory, marks Sri Lanka’s most dominant and their first win towards New Zealand in 15 years.
Left-arm spinner Prabath Jayasuriya, was named Participant of the Sequence after a heroic efficiency, claiming 18 wickets throughout the 2 matches.
Kamindu Mendis was awarded Man of the Match honors for his unbeaten 182, organising Sri Lanka’s mammoth whole of 602-5 declared, which chiseled his identify in historical past, becoming a member of the nice Sir Don Bradman because the third joint-fastest participant to succeed in 1,000 Check runs.
Jayasuriya took 9 wickets within the first Check and one other 9 wickets within the second take a look at as New Zealand’s batters struggled towards Sri Lanka’s spin assault. Debutant Nishan Peiris additionally chipped in with 9 wickets of his personal, together with a five-wicket haul within the second innings.
“We mentioned the necessity to rating huge within the first innings. That has been one thing that has been worrying us for some time. Glad we rectified that this innings,” mentioned Sri Lanka captain Dananjaya de Silva.
“The spinners had been excellent. They stored creating stress and didn’t enable New Zealand to get away with issues. It was an excellent show. That’s how we need to compete in residence situations, dominate the opposition from ball one,” he added.
New Zealand was all out for an insignificant 88 of their first innings, displaying a bit extra battle of their second innings, posting 360, their highest whole of the tour.
Tom Blundell, Glenn Phillips and Mitchell Santner all contributed half-centuries within the second innings, however it wasn’t sufficient to problem Sri Lanka’s dominance.
Resuming at 199-5 on the fourth day, New Zealand misplaced three wickets earlier than lunch. Regardless of Sri Lanka’s fielding lapses, dropping three catches, finally after lunch. Jayasuriya eliminated Ajaz Patel and Peiris took the ultimate scalp of Santner, stumped by Kusal Mendis, sealing the collection win for Sri Lanka.
“We had our moments within the collection, however upset with the top consequence,” mentioned New Zealand captain Tim Southee. “That morning session on day three after we misplaced 9 wickets was very disappointing.
“There have been dropped catches and missed stumpings as nicely within the Sri Lankan innings and in these situations if you don’t maintain onto these possibilities it is rather tough.”
With this victory, Sri Lanka has now received three consecutive take a look at matches and strengthened their possibilities of qualifying for the ICC World Check Championship remaining at Lord’s subsequent June.
