Tillakaratne Dilshan and Tharanga Paranavitana consolidate Sri Lanka against England Lions – Lankan tour of England
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lions-c808 on the third day of the tour match and accumulated a 165-run overall lead. The match is being played at County Ground, Derby from May 19 to May
22, 2011.
Sri Lanka won the toss on the first day and offered the batting to England Lions, who gave a poor response while losing two wickets for 47 runs. The third wicket partnership between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/James-Charles-Hildreth-c65540 earned them 58 runs and the fourth
wicket contributed 57 runs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Huzefa-Mohammed-Patel-c63657 was the fifth batsman to go, but not before posting 119 runs and enhancing the total to 428 runs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Daniel-John-Doran-c52287 for his selection in the first Test by powering 193 runs off 226 balls with the help of five sixes and 30 fours.
England Lions declared their innings for 493 runs for the loss of eight wickets in 109 overs.
Thisara Perera and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Congenige-Randhi-Dilhara-Fernando-c51539 were the two leading bowlers for Sri Lanka by taking three wickets each while Nuwan Pradeep and Suraj Randiv shared one wicket each.
The Lankan Lions gave a http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Timothy-Francis-Bloomfield-c94006 start and provided 59 runs for the first wicket but the second wicket fell at 71 run followed by the third at 72 runs.
Their decline continued due to the excellent bowling by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 Lions and six wickets were lost at 97 runs.
The seventh wicket contributed 60 runs while the major association of 89 runs was witnessed between Randiv and Perera for the eighth wicket. Randiv remained unbeaten on 76 runs and Perera had scored 47 runs when they were bowled out at 266 runs in 63.4 overs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/A-Shahzad-c874 shared two wickets each as Patel took one wicket.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Short-c90107 of 227 runs in the first innings and a follow on was forced on them.
Captain Dilshan and Paranavitana opened their second innings with determination and punished the England Lions bowlers at will. Dilshan was especially very severe, punching every loose delivery he faced, utilised all scoring balls by dispatching them all
around the park and completed his century in the process.
The pair contributed 200 runs for the first wicket and Dilshan was the first batsman to go back to the pavilion after playing a dashing innings of 117 runs off 110 balls, assisted with two sixes and 17 fours.
Paranavitana also completed his patient century and scored 125 runs off 216 balls which comprised 18 fours.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Close-c51347 of the third day’s play.
Sri Lanka achieved a total of 392 runs for the loss of six wickets and took a lead of 165 runs in their second innings.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ravinder-Singh-Bopara-c84233 shared one wicket each from England Lions.
Sri Lanka would like to score around 250 runs before they think of declaring, on the other hand, England Lions http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Try-c94438 to fold the Lankans as early as possible and give them a taste of their first defeat in the tour.
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