Mahela Jayawardene's claims fall short as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 crumble on Day 1 – Cricket News Update
Sri Lankan middle-order batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755.
The 34-year-old was impressed by his team’s effort in the opening Test, where they clawed a first innings deficit of 314 runs, mainly due to the heroics of left-hander, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KC-Sangakkara-c1779, who played a sublime double ton to keep the opponents frustrated.
This led the Lankan http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lions-c808 to draw the match and Jayawardene felt that it gave his team the ascendency, going into the second five-day game.
"We definitely came out of a hole," Jayawardene said. "I think that shows a lot of character. If you can come away from a Test match like that, it gives you a lot of confidence knowing that we're still in the series and that we have an opportunity to come back at them.”
Set a target of 170 in 21 overs, the Men In Green stayed on the defensive and could only manage 21 in 10, before the two captains settled for a draw. Jayawardene was highly critical of the Men In Green and termed their approach as a ‘bit negative’.
"We felt Pakistan were a bit negative not even trying to chase it down so that felt better on our part knowing how they felt about that situation."Now we realise, OK fine, we're probably one up on them," added the veteran.
However, the start of the second Test saw another appalling performance from the Lankan batters, who lost half of the batting side before the first session.
It was another disappointing outing from Jayawardene, who could only manage 6 before being caught at first slip off the bowling off http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Umar-Gul-c94604. It has been an off series for the veteran so far, who could only make a total of 32 runs in the first match.
With an average of over 50, the player is still in hunt for joining the exclusive class of cricketers, who has reached 10,000 in their International career. However, the team will be banking on the his abilities to come good for the remainder of the series.
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