Pakistan v Sri Lanka – 3rd Test – 2nd Day’s Summary
Sri Lanka 413 v Pakistan 35/2 -
Pakistan trail by 378 runs with 8 wickets remaining in the 1st innings
After receiving a hammering from Sri Lankan batsmen, Pakistan trail by 378 runs with eight wickets in hand as they ended the second day’s proceedings after posting 35 runs on the board on Friday, November 04 at Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, United
Arab Emirates (UAE).
Earlier in the day, the Sri Lankans began the second day after ending the first day by posting 245 runs on the board for the loss of only two wickets.
With http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DPMD-Jayawardene-c1397 on 32 runs, the Lankans were in a perfect position to take the game away from Pakistan by posting a mammoth tally on the board in their first innings.
While Sangakkara cited a long innings, Jayawardene fell to his demise after scoring just 39 runs when the veteran batsman was trapped in front of stumps by left-arm pacer http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Junaid-Khan-c77037.
At the time of this wicket, Sri Lanka were on 261 runs for the loss of three wickets.
Jayawardene and Sangakkara posted 84 runs in the third-wicket partnership which turned out to be extremely important for Sri Lanka as they needed such a partnership to dominate Pakistan early in the match.
Then it was time for 24-year-old http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AD-Mathews-c913 to come out as he tried to craft another handy partnership against the Men in Green.
However, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Adnan-Akmal-c42042.
At the time of this wicket, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 had amassed 300 runs on the board against a depleted Pakistan bowling line-up as the dead wicket at Sharjah had little to offer the bowlers.
The duo of Sangakkara and Mathews could only bolster 39 runs on the board.
Later, Pakistan struck gold when http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Saeed-Ajmal-c87859 bagged the wicket of Sangakkara who was caught by Younis Khan at slip after smashing an enormous knock of 144 runs.
The innings by Sangakkara surely served its purpose as it was due to his prolific knock that Sri Lanka achieved a gigantic total.
In the later part of the day, the 9th wicket partnership between JK Silva and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/HMRKB-Herath-c1559 clobbered 54 runs to help the Lankans end their first innings on 413 runs.
From Pakistan, Ajmal was the highest wicket taker with four wickets to his name while pacer http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Umar-Gul-c94604 took three wickets.
With a huge first innings total to overcome Pakistan did not have a commendable start to their innings as opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taufeeq-Umar-c92889 who departed after clobbering 19 runs as
Pakistan posted 35 runs on the board with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Younis-Khan-c98325 on nil.
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