Dinesh Chandimal and Angelo Mathews placed on a file 232-run fourth-wicket partnership Saturday to depart Sri Lanka in agency management on day two of their one-off Test towards Afghanistan in Colombo. Sri Lanka had been main by 212 runs with 4 wickets in hand at stumps, with Mathews despatched again on the ultimate ball for 141 and Sadeera Samarawickrama (21) nonetheless on the crease. Chandimal (107) additionally notched up a century in a partnership that broke a file on the Sinhalese Sports Club that had stood for 32 years.
Arjuna Ranatunga and Asanka Gurusinha had placed on 230 runs for the fourth wicket there in what’s fondly remembered because the Shane Warne Test match, when the spin king helped Australia safe an exciting 16-run win in 1992.
Mathews and Chandimal got here collectively after three wickets had fallen within the morning session and Sri Lanka had been nonetheless 50 runs behind.
The two senior batsmen noticed off some correct bowling by the Afghan quick bowlers on a wicket that had flattened out to the detriment of spinners.
Mathews was the primary to the century, chopping Qais Ahmad previous backward level for 2 runs. It was his sixteenth Test hundred.
His anticlimactic dismissal got here when he smashed a full toss from Qais to the boundary however misplaced stability and crashed onto the stumps to be out hit wicket.
His innings topped his earlier greatest in Sri Lanka of 122 towards Pakistan in 2015.
Chandimal received to his fifteenth Test hundred off Nijat Masood, clipping one previous mid-on to the boundary.
Naveed Zadran was rewarded for his self-discipline when Chandimal was caught behind as Afghanistan discovered a breakthrough after 62 overs.
New captain Dhananjaya de Silva received off to the worst potential begin on the subsequent ball when he was run out.
He pushed one to mid-off and was making an attempt to get off the mark, however Mathews was ball watching and Afghan skipper Hashmatullah Shahidi threw down the stumps on the striker’s finish to search out de Silva nicely in need of the crease.
Afghanistan took three wickets earlier than lunch on the second day after Sri Lanka resumed on 80 with out loss.
Nishan Madushka was the primary to depart for 37 after hitting straight to Noor Ali Zadran at leg-slip off debutant Naveed Zadran.
Fellow opener Dimuth Karunaratne posted his thirty fifth Test half-century in an aggressive knock that noticed 12 boundaries off 72 balls.
But the left-hander’s try and put away a full toss from Qais noticed him caught at quick mid-wicket by Ibrahim Zadran for 77.
Afghanistan had been bowled out for 198 within the ultimate session of Friday’s first day, after being put in to bat by the hosts.
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