LIVE - Sri Lanka v http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 – 2nd Test Match –Australia steady despite Shane Watson's early exit - Match Update
Despite the loss of premier all-rounder, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Watson-c2558, Australia look set to dominate the proceedings on the second day of the 2nd Test match against Sri Lanka, played at the Pallekele International Stadium on September 9, 2011.
The visitors moved on to 93 for the loss of 1 wicket, trailing their opponents by 81 runs.
Resuming from their overnight score of 60 for no loss, the visitors suffered a setback in only the second over of the day as medium-pacer, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/TM-Dilshan-c2691
on the first day.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Watson-c96326 opted to leave a conventional off-side delivery, which nipped back sharply off the wicket, shattering the player’s off-stump. He made the long walk back to the pavilion, failing to add anything to his overnight score of 36.
This brought debutant http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RT-Ponting-c2377, who went back home for the birth of his second child.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Simon-James-Marshall-c90362 was given any breathing space. The first boundary of the day came in the 7th over of the day, when Hughes unconvincingly hit Lakmal to the extra cover region.
That opened the shackles as both left-handers now started to rotate the strike, edging their team closer to the 100-run mark.
Marsh then hit the Sri Lankan pacer to the long leg boundary, flicking one off his pads.
The left-hander was then lucky to escape with a boundary when he tried to play http://www.senore.com/Cricket/UWMBCA-Welegedara-c2735 for a upper cut, only to get a healthy bottom edge, which eluded the keeper and went to the fine-leg boundary.
In the first 15 overs of the day, the hosts mustered a little over 2 runs per over, but looked set to chase Sri Lanka's first inning total of 174.
Play on first day was brought to an abrupt hold due to bad light, which saw http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Seekkuge-Prasanna-c89140 delivering the final two deliveries of his over on the second day.
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