http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 vs England – 1st Test – Match Update
James Anderson’s completed an impressive five-for ( with the wicket of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AN-Cook-c1026 off
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ranasinghe-Arachchige-Suranga-Lakmal-c83928, with Day 2 beginning on an eventful note at the Galle International Stadium, March 27, 2012.
With the Poms holding ascendency following the conclusion of the first day, Day 2 was resumed by the Lankan skipper (168) and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/UWMBCA-Welegedara-c2735 (10). The proceedings began on a fortuitous note with Welegedara picking up four boundaries off Anderson’s first
over.
The pacer had earlier taken 3 scalps already and looked the most threatening of the bowlers. His deployed a short ball policy in the first over – two went for leg byes, of one which was directed sharply at the chest region, where Welegedara was lucky not
to glove it.
The other two boundaries managed to get some part of the bat – one went sailing over the slips region, while the last one was the best of the lot, which flew to the mid-wicket boundary.
From being 289, the hosts crossed the 300- run barrier. Jayawardene took time to settle, playing http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SCJ-Broad-c2465 for a maiden. The skipper opened his account in Anderson’s second over with an off-side push but his partner failed to weather out the final ball
and was cleaned up ( through a lovely slower ball) on 19.
With only Lakmal for company, Jayawardene then struck two boundaries – lofting one to the mid-off region, while clipping the other to the fine leg boundary. However, Anderson finally got the better of the veteran with arguably the ball of the game.
The Lankan skipper lunged forward for a defensive push but the ball held its line to take a healthy edge, and went safely into the gloves of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MJ-Prior-c1984. The 34-year-old walked back to a resounding ovation from the crowd for a stellar 315-ball knock.
With thoughts of UAE drubbing lingering in their mind, the English batters again faltered with Cook departing for a duck – caught lbw by Lakmal. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/IJL-Trott-c1576 began aggressively with a flick off his pads and will need to establish a sizeable stand with
skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AJ-Strauss-c964 to help their team to rebuild from the early loss of their most inform player.
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