Praveen Jayawickrama took a match haul of 11 wickets on debut to assist Sri Lanka clinch a sequence win over Bangladesh on Monday with a 209-run victory within the second Test.
Sri Lanka wanted 5 wickets for victory on the ultimate day and Jayawickrama accounted for 3 of them to complete with mixed figures of 11-178.
It was the Tenth-best return by a Test bowler on debut and the very best by a Sri Lankan, bettering on Akila Dananjaya’s 8-44 in opposition to Bangladesh three years in the past. He was voted participant of the match.
🚨 The finest match figures (11 wickets) by a Sri Lankan on Test debut.
🚨 The finest match figures by a left-arm spinner on Test debut.
🚨 1st Sri Lankan bowler to take 10 wickets or extra within the debut match.
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After trapping Liton Das for 17 in his second over of the morning with an arm ball, the 22-year-old left-arm spinner claimed the final two Bangladeshi wickets within the house of three deliveries to complete with 5-85 within the second innings to again up his first-innings effort of 6-92.
Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne, who was voted participant of the sequence after scoring 428 runs together with a double-century, century and a half-century in three innings, described the efficiency of inexperienced spinners Jayawickrama and Ramesh Mendis as “fantastic”.
“At a time when we didn’t have anyone experienced, they came and bowled like experienced players, and performed their roles as they should,” he mentioned. “Praveen did his job perfectly well. He played like a bowler who had more than his 10 first-class matches.”
“It’s a great sign for the future of our Test cricket. The seniors just gave them confidence. Some players can panic at times when they come into the Test arena (but) Praveen absorbed pressure really well.”
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— Sri Lanka Cricket 🇱🇰 (@OfficialSLC) May 3, 2021
Bangladesh misplaced its final three wickets inside eight balls with the overall on 227.
Off-spinner Ramesh Mendis completed with 4 wickets, complementing the orthodox spin of Jayawickrama, who flighted the ball, discovered drift and lot of help from a crumbling wicket.
The two front-line spinners shared the majority of the bowling, sending down 60 overs within the second innings and claiming 9 wickets between them.
Bangladesh’s batters struggled, with no one scoring a half-century. Mushfiqur Rahim high scored with 40.
Bangladesh had been bowled out for 251 in its first innings in reply to Sri Lanka’s 493-7. Despite a first-innings lead of 242, Sri Lanka didn’t implement the follow-on, as a substitute batting once more and declaring on 194-9 to set Bangladesh a goal of 437.
It was Sri Lanka’s first Test win in additional than a 12 months, ending a run of eight Tests with out a victory. The first Test on this sequence had ended a draw.
