Dhananjaya de Silva and Milan Rathnayake stroked gutsy half-centuries to revive Sri Lanka’s first innings after a top-order collapse in the first Test against England at Old Trafford, Manchester.
The Sri Lanka skipper Dhananjaya de Silva decided to bat first after winning the toss.
Sri Lanka XI: 1 Dimuth Karunaratne, 2 Nishan Madushka, 3 Kusal Mendis, 4 Angelo Mathews, 5 Dinesh Chandimal (wk), 6 Dhananjaya de Silva (capt), 7 Kamindu Mendis, 8 Prabath Jayasuriya, 9 Asitha Fernando, 10 Vishwa Fernando, 11 Milan Rathnayake
England XI: 1 Dan Lawrence, 2 Ben Duckett, 3 Ollie Pope (capt), 4 Joe Root, 5 Harry Brook, 6 Jamie Smith (wk), 7 Chris Woakes, 8 Gus Atkinson, 9 Matthew Potts, 10 Mark Wood, 11 Shoaib Bashir
Dimuth Karunaratne and Nishan Madushka opened the batting for the visitors but their stay at the crease was reduced to just 6 runs as the former was caught by Jamie Smith of the bowling off Gus Atkinson while attempting a pull shot.
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Four balls later, Karunaratne’s partner Madushka chased a wide one from Woakes to offer a simple catch to Joe Root at slips. In the same over, Angelo Mathews left a nip-backer that stayed low to be adjudged lbw.
When Sri Lanka were reeling at 6/3 at the end of 7 overs, Kusal Mendis and Dinesh Chandimal showed some intent to push the ball into the gaps and added 34-run stand for the 4th wicket before Mark Wood dismissed Mendis of a 93mph snorter.
Chandimal and the skipper De Silva added another 30+ partnership before the former was trapped in front by the off-spinner Shoaib Bashir.
Sri Lanka had a pretty good session after the Lunch break as De Silva and the debutant Milan Rathnayake built a fighting partnership for the 8th wicket. The duo put up a brave fight adding 63 runs.
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De Silva went onto score his 15th half-century in Tests but was dismissed by Bashir at the stroke of Tea break.
Rathnayake was very impressive on his Test debut and managed to score a fantastic half-century, becoming the first Sri Lankan to reach the milestone while batting at No. 9 or lower on Test debut. Sri Lanka were eventually bowled out for 236.
In reply, England managed to score 22 runs for no wicket in the 4 overs of spin they faced before bad light stopped play.
Result
| Batsmen | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nishan Madushka | c Joe Root b Chris Woakes | 4 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 |
| Dimuth Karunaratne | c Jamie Smith b Gus Atkinson | 2 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 11.11 |
| Kusal Mendis | c Harry Brook b Mark Wood | 24 | 34 | 4 | 0 | 70.59 |
| Angelo Mathews | lbw b Chris Woakes | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Dinesh Chandimal | lbw b Shoaib Bashir | 17 | 40 | 2 | 0 | 42.50 |
| Dhananjaya de Silva | c Dan Lawrence b Shoaib Bashir | 74 | 84 | 8 | 0 | 88.10 |
| Kamindu Mendis | c Jamie Smith b Chris Woakes | 12 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 48.00 |
| Prabath Jayasuriya | c Jamie Smith b Gus Atkinson | 10 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 50.00 |
| Milan Rathnayake | c Chris Woakes b Shoaib Bashir | 72 | 135 | 6 | 2 | 53.33 |
| Vishwa Fernando | run out (Ollie Pope) | 13 | 62 | 2 | 0 | 20.97 |
| Asitha Fernando | not out | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Extras | 8 (b 0 , lb 4 , nb 1, w 3, pen 0) |
| Total | 236/10 (74 Overs, RR: 3.19) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Woakes | 11 | 3 | 32 | 3 | 2.91 | |
| Gus Atkinson | 16 | 3 | 48 | 2 | 3.00 | |
| Matthew Potts | 9 | 0 | 48 | 0 | 5.33 | |
| Mark Wood | 8 | 0 | 31 | 1 | 3.88 | |
| Shoaib Bashir | 23 | 4 | 55 | 3 | 2.39 | |
| Joe Root | 7 | 2 | 18 | 0 | 2.57 | |
| Batsmen | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Duckett | lbw b Asitha Fernando | 18 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 90.00 |
| Dan Lawrence | c Dinesh Chandimal b Vishwa Fernando | 30 | 39 | 3 | 0 | 76.92 |
| Ollie Pope | b Asitha Fernando | 6 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 75.00 |
| Joe Root | c Dinesh Chandimal b Asitha Fernando | 42 | 57 | 4 | 0 | 73.68 |
| Harry Brook | b Prabath Jayasuriya | 56 | 73 | 4 | 0 | 76.71 |
| Jamie Smith | c Dinesh Chandimal b Prabath Jayasuriya | 111 | 148 | 8 | 1 | 75.00 |
| Chris Woakes | b Prabath Jayasuriya | 25 | 65 | 3 | 0 | 38.46 |
| Gus Atkinson | c Dinesh Chandimal b Milan Rathnayake | 20 | 65 | 1 | 0 | 30.77 |
| Matthew Potts | c Kusal Mendis b Vishwa Fernando | 17 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 73.91 |
| Mark Wood | b Asitha Fernando | 22 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 169.23 |
| Shoaib Bashir | not out | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 60.00 |
| Extras | 8 (b 0 , lb 4 , nb 3, w 1, pen 0) |
| Total | 358/10 (86.3 Overs, RR: 4.14) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dhananjaya de Silva | 3 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 4.67 | |
| Prabath Jayasuriya | 31 | 5 | 85 | 3 | 2.74 | |
| Asitha Fernando | 18 | 0 | 103 | 4 | 5.72 | |
| Vishwa Fernando | 19.3 | 1 | 73 | 2 | 3.78 | |
| Milan Rathnayake | 13 | 0 | 66 | 1 | 5.08 | |
| Kamindu Mendis | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 6.50 | |
| Batsmen | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nishan Madushka | b Chris Woakes | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Dimuth Karunaratne | c Harry Brook b Mark Wood | 27 | 32 | 4 | 0 | 84.38 |
| Kusal Mendis | c Jamie Smith b Gus Atkinson | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Angelo Mathews | c Matthew Potts b Chris Woakes | 65 | 145 | 2 | 1 | 44.83 |
| Dinesh Chandimal | c Harry Singh b Matthew Potts | 79 | 119 | 7 | 0 | 66.39 |
| Dhananjaya de Silva | lbw b Matthew Potts | 12 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 48.00 |
| Kamindu Mendis | c Joe Root b Gus Atkinson | 113 | 183 | 15 | 1 | 61.75 |
| Milan Rathnayake | c Ben Duckett b Joe Root | 10 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 66.67 |
| Prabath Jayasuriya | c Harry Brook b Matthew Potts | 5 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 |
| Vishwa Fernando | lbw b Chris Woakes | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Asitha Fernando | not out | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Extras | 15 (b 0 , lb 8 , nb 1, w 6, pen 0) |
| Total | 326/10 (89.3 Overs, RR: 3.64) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Woakes | 22 | 6 | 558 | 3 | 25.36 | |
| Gus Atkinson | 17 | 2 | 89 | 2 | 5.24 | |
| Shoaib Bashir | 20 | 0 | 77 | 0 | 3.85 | |
| Mark Wood | 10.2 | 1 | 36 | 1 | 3.53 | |
| Matthew Potts | 17.3 | 4 | 47 | 3 | 2.72 | |
| Joe Root | 1.4 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3.57 | |
| Dan Lawrence | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5.00 | |
| Batsmen | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Duckett | c Kusal Mendis b Asitha Fernando | 11 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 78.57 |
| Dan Lawrence | lbw b Milan Rathnayake | 34 | 54 | 2 | 1 | 62.96 |
| Ollie Pope | c Dhananjaya de Silva b Prabath Jayasuriya | 6 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 35.29 |
| Joe Root | not out | 62 | 128 | 2 | 0 | 48.44 |
| Harry Brook | c & b Prabath Jayasuriya | 32 | 68 | 3 | 0 | 47.06 |
| Jamie Smith | b Asitha Fernando | 39 | 48 | 4 | 1 | 81.25 |
| Chris Woakes | not out | 8 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 44.44 |
| Extras | 13 (b 0 , lb 5 , nb 3, w 5, pen 0) |
| Total | 205/5 (57.2 Overs, RR: 3.58) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vishwa Fernando | 8 | 0 | 46 | 0 | 5.75 | |
| Asitha Fernando | 12 | 1 | 25 | 2 | 2.08 | |
| Prabath Jayasuriya | 25.2 | 4 | 98 | 2 | 3.89 | |
| Milan Rathnayake | 12 | 0 | 31 | 1 | 2.58 | |
