Sri Lanka v England – First Test – Lankan http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lions-c808 in trouble
Sri Lanka scored 33 runs in the first 15 overs and lost three important wickets in their second innings after England declared on 496 runs for the loss of five wickets. The Poms declared as soon as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ian-Ronald-Bell-c63974 reached three figures.
The Test match is being played at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, and began on 26
May, 2011.
Sri Lanka First innings
400 runs all out in 118. 4 overs, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Tillakaratne-Mudiyanselage-Dilshan-c93947, 50 runs.
Bowling – http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Christopher-Timothy-Tremlett-c51014, one wicket.
England First innings
496 runs for the loss of five wickets, declared, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Alastair-Nathan-Cook-c42852, 133 runs and Bell unbeaten 103 runs.
Bowling – http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Herath-Mudiyanselage-Rangana-Keerthi-Bandara-Herath-c62873, one wicket each.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 gained a first innings lead of 96 runs before they declared their innings.
They had 50 overs to bowl on the last day before the closure of the first Test match.
The sun was shining when http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758’s openers came to the crease for the second time in the match.
England’s pace-attack spearhead, James Anderson, was injured and Broad opened the bowling.
Paranavitana and Dilshan looked calm and the first over bowled by Broad was a maiden, which was faced by Paranavitana.
Dilshan opened his account with a single on the second ball of the second over but Paranavitana edged the last ball of the same over bowled by Tremlett and was caught superbly by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AJ-Strauss-c964 at first slip.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KC-Sangakkara-c1779 was the next batsman in with, but after the addition of just nine runs to the total, he was caught and bowled by Tremlett again on 10 runs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Denagamage-Proboth-Mahela-de-Silva-Jayawardene-c53546 was the next batsman dismissed after scoring 15 runs.
Sri Lanka had lost three wickets for just 33 runs at the end of 15th over and looked to be in deep trouble.
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