England vs. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 – 1st test-Day 2- Summary
After having a superb first day by posting 133 runs for the loss of two wickets in the first Test against England, at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, Sri Lanka began Day-2 to start off right from where they left things.
However, after playing the first two overs without scoring any run, the tourists lost their birthday boy, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AJ-Strauss-c964, off a delivery bowled
by pacer, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JM-Anderson-c1705.
Next man in was http://www.senore.com/Cricket/NT-Paranavitana-c2132 put up a good show against the home side as both batsmen exhibited confidence in the shots that they played.
After taking the score to 159 for 3 the partnership was finally broken in the 62nd over of the day when Paranavitana had his stumps shattered by a splendid delivery, bowled by Chris Tremlett. The batsman lost his wicket after scoring 66 runs off
191 deliveries.
Samaraweera then went on to make 58 runs as he made the English bowlers look nervous to bowl at him on their own ground. It was not just him but his partner http://www.senore.com/Cricket/HAPW-Jayawardene-c1529 was equally entertaining to watch as both the batsmen showed some fine display
of quality batting.
Strauss was surely running out of ideas, he needed to break the partnership before it was too late for the English to bounce back in the match. However, the young Sri Lankans stood defiant in front of the ruthless English bowling attack.
By the end of the 80th over, the two had taken the score to 242 for 4. In the next over it was time to take the new ball, and the change did the trick for England as the lethal Sri Lankan partnership was finally brought to closure when Samaraweera
edged James Anderson’s delivery at second slip for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/GP-Swann-c1501 to hold on to.
With Samaraweera gone, Jayawardene sought to construct another lethal innings with the remaining batsmen of his team, however, none good provide him with the support that he needed.
Nonetheless, the highlight of the Sri Lankan batting was the phenomenal innings of 112 runs made by Prasanna, which basically helped the tourists, post exactly 400 runs on the board.
From England, Anderson and Swann were the most successful bowlers as both took three wickets against the Lankans.
Coming out to bat, England had an uphill task ahead of them to avoid a follow on and then go on to post a total big enough to defend, in order to win the first Test. However, it is too early to predict what the outcome of the match will be.
At the end of the second day’s play, England had scored 47 runs for the loss of Captain Andrew Strauss’ wicket, in the last over of the day, when he edged a delivery to second slip, straight in the hands of Mahela Jayawardene off a http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ranasinghe-Arachchige-Suranga-Lakmal-c83928 over.
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