Image Source : GETTY IMAGES Angelo Mathews
Pacer Mark Wood bowled a fiery over on Day 1 of the primary Test between Sri Lanka and England on Thursday. Wood, in his very first of the day at Galle, clocked 86, 88, 91, 93, 91, 91 miles per hour.
On the fifth supply of the over which was bowled at 91 miles per hour, Wood broke Angelo Mathews bat into two items. The incident occurred within the tenth over of the primary innings when Mathews tried to defend Wood’s ripper.
Seemed a innocent ball to interrupt Angelo’s bat into 2 #SLvsENG #AngeloMathews pic.twitter.com/3xcsmLTwDB— Kartik Kannan (@kartik_kannan) January 14, 2021
Sri Lanka had a substandard day with the bat as they have been in a position to submit simply 135 on the scoreboard. Dom Bess bagged 5/30, his career-best figures within the conventional format, to fort the hosts’ batting unit.
While Bess took benefit of the spin-friendly wicket, Jack Leach and Stuart Broad scalped one and three wickets respectively. Sri Lanka skipper Dinesh Chandimal was his facet’s highest scorer with 28 runs.
Broad was at his finest as he dismissed Lahiru Thirimanne and Kusal Mendes inside a span of three balls. Thirimanne was caught by Jonny Bairstow at leg slip whereas Mendes nicked the ball to keeper Jos Buttler.
England ended the day on 127/2 with captain Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow on the crease. After shedding openers Dom Sibley and Zak Crawley, the Root-Bairstow pair stitched 110 in simply 194 deliveries to regular England’s first innings. The guests at present path solely by eight runs.
