Sri Lanka and England – 3rd Test - 2nd Day’s play cut http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Short-c90107 due to rain
The third test between hosts England and tourists http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gordon-Muchall-c1499 time to play.
However, on the second day, the weather was exceptionally wet and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Calum-Scott-MacLeod-c49129 at Southampton which did not allow play to start in the morning.
It was only in the afternoon, after lunch that the sky cleared up, which allowed the game to begin before being interrupted once again after only 23.2 overs had been bowled in the day.
This session of rain continued for a longer period of time, making it impossible for play to be resumed as the whole cricket ground and especially the outfield was soaked with water.
Nonetheless, the session after lunch gave cricket fans something to cheer about, as the home side wreaked havoc on the struggling Sri Lankan batsmen, who never seemed prepared to face a bowling onslaught on a wet morning, as wickets kept falling.
It was http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Christopher-Timothy-Tremlett-c51014 who annihilated the Sri Lankan batting line-up as he reached a career best tally of 6 wickets for 42 runs, out of the six he took two on the first day.
Tremlett caused enough trouble for the likes of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Matthew-James-Prior-c75192, after being frustrated by the tall bowler, the Lankan struggled to score and departed after making only four runs.
The wicket of Jayawardene was just what England needed as they saw a window to wrap the Sri Lankan innings in the limited time before rain struck back.
However, the only reason why Sri Lanka are still batting at the end of the second day is due to the sensational innings by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/HAPW-Jayawardene-c1529, who stood defiant against the English bowling onslaught under difficult conditions and pulled off a splendid
innings of 43 runs off 104 deliveries.
With 177 on the board, Sri Lanka’s last batting pair of C. Fernando and U. Welegedara were still batting before the umpires had to ask the players to leave the field as the rain poured heavily, making it impossible to carry on.
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