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  • NZ vs SL, 2nd Test Day 3: New Zealand cut back Sri Lanka to 113/2 after imposing follow-on at stumps

    New Zealand are in command within the second Test as they decreased Sri Lanka to 113/2 after imposing a follow-on. Sri Lanka trailed New Zealand by 303 runs at stumps on Day 3.

    UPDATED: Mar 19, 2023 11:55 IST

    New Zealand lead Sri Lanka by 303 runs. (Photo: AP/PTI)

    By India Today Sports Desk: New Zealand are in command within the second Test as they eye sequence clear sweep in opposition to Sri Lanka after imposing a follow-on on the Basin Reserve on Sunday.

    New Zealand decreased Sri Lanka to 113/2 at stumps on Day 3 after bundling them out for simply 164 after placing a mammoth first innings complete of 580/4d.

    Sri Lanka opener Kusal Mendis, who was out for a 10-ball duck within the first innings, reached his seventeenth half-century simply earlier than the top of day’s play. He will resume Sri Lanka’s fightback alongside Angelo Mathews (1*).

    Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne but once more performed an important position and ensured to remain on the crease for a lot of Day 3. After top-scoring with 89 within the first innings, Karunaratne (51) batted by way of a lot of the final two periods earlier than getting out somewhat greater than half-an-hour earlier than stumps on Sunday.

    Michael Bracewell discovered flip and bounce on the third day and took 3/50 as Sri Lanka’s first innings ended quickly after Dinesh Chandimal’s (37) dismissal. The guests’ remaining six wickets fell for simply 50 runs. In the second innings, Bracewell acquired an early breakthrough as he eliminated Oshada Fernando (5).

    Karunaratne, who introduced up his thirty second Test fifty, pulled a Tim Southee quick ball solely to search out Devon Conway on the deep mid-wicket. For the Basin Reserve crowd, it was a second consecutive follow-on as they’d witnessed New Zealand receiving a follow-on in the course of the second Test in opposition to England in February.

    Earlier, Kane Williamson and Henry Nicholls’ respective Test double a whole lot powered New Zealand to 580/4d.

    Along the best way, Williamson registered his sixth Test double hundred and equalled the likes of Virender Sehwag, Javed Miandad, Ricky Ponting and Younis Khan. Williamson is now only one behind Virat Kohli (7 Test double a whole lot).

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    Mar 19, 2023

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  • SL vs AUS 2nd Test, Day 4: Sri Lanka rating 500-plus runs in opposition to Australia for the primary time since 1992

    Sri Lanka achieved the feat on Day 4 of the Test match, because of a double century by Dinesh Chandimal. The wicketkeeper-batter performed a formidable knock to stay unbeaten on 206 as Sri Lanka folded for 554.

    Dinesh Chandimal smashed a double Test century in opposition to Australia. (Courtesy: Reuters)

    HIGHLIGHTSSri Lanka scored 554 runs of their 1st inningsDinesh Chandimal smashed a double century1992 Sri Lanka workforce had declared on 547/8

    Sri Lanka on Monday created historical past within the ongoing second Test match in opposition to Australia on the Galle International Stadium, registering 500-plus runs in opposition to the Down Under facet for the primary time since 1992.

    The Dimuth Karunaratne-led Sri Lanka workforce achieved the feat on the fourth day of the Test match, because of a double century by Dinesh Chandimal. The wicketkeeper-batter performed a formidable knock to stay unbeaten on 206 as Sri Lanka folded for 554 runs.

    Sri Lanka have set the goal of 190 for Australia, who had gained the primary Test by 10 wickets final week on the identical venue.

    Dimuth Karunaratne and Kusal Mendis missed out on their respective a whole bunch, whereas Angelo Mathews and Kamindu Mendis smashed a fifty every in Sri Lanka’s first batting innings. Karunaratne and Mendis scored 86 and 85 earlier than Mitchell Swepson and Nathan Lyon eliminated them in an area of almost 10 overs.

    The second Test match between Sri Lanka and Australia is Kamindu’s Test debut for the island nation. The solely different time Sri Lanka managed to succeed in 500 runs in opposition to Australia within the longest format was 1992.

    The then Arjuna Ranatunga-led Sri Lanka workforce had declared on 547 for the lack of eight wickets. However, the workforce nonetheless misplaced the match to Allan Border’s Australia by 16 runs.

    The 1992 Sri Lanka workforce had three centurions – Arjuna Ranatunga (127), Asanka Gurusinha (137) and Romesh Kaluwitharana (132*) – of their first batting innings. However, within the second innings, Sri Lanka collapsed in entrance of Greg Matthews and Shane Warne and the island nation was bundled out for under 164.

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  • Resolute Karunaratne proves to be Sri Lanka’s one-man resistance military

    Flicking Jasprit Bumrah in direction of fine-leg, Dimuth Karunaratne set off for the run that will full his fourteenth hundred. He saved sprinting, battling his weary legs and drained shoulders, not gazing in direction of the ball. The ball appeared inevitably destined to nudge the ropes, however he didn’t pause for celebration. His thoughts was on the double that might retain his strike and never expose Lasith Embuldeniya to Bumrah. Upon finishing the double, he turned again, paused, and soaked within the heat applause of the crown below the aluminium skies, but to interrupt into the twilight.

    Yet once more, the Sri Lankan captain was doing the operating for his group. Yet once more, he was the one-man resistance military of the Lankans. Yet once more, he ensured that there’s something his nation’s ardent supporters might treasure from an insipid defeat. Yet once more, he has given them hope for a greater tomorrow. He has been Sri Lanka’s lone ray of sunshine within the darkest cricketing interval of their cricket historical past. A tragic hero of Sri Lanka’s most tragic occasions.

    The knock was not attribute Karunaratne. Usually resolute, there have been streaky passages, when he couldn’t get bat on the ball, and when he did, it brushed the perimeters. He survived Ravi Ashwin, by criminal and luck, within the first session. Ashwin was in a temper for mischief—turning the ball away from him, into him, holding it straight, making it skid and shoot, leap and carry. Often, he would stab unsurely, usually he would see the ball spin throughout the part of his bat, or between his bat and pad, or take the deal with and evade the fielder. Both Bumrah and Shami, too, beat his unsure bat a number of occasions. Both Axar Patel and Ravindra Jadeja interrogated the steeliness of his resolve.

    What.A.Knock 👏

    Brilliant from Dimuth Karunaratne to carry up his 💯 on a tough pitch! This is his 14th in Test Cricket.#INDvSL pic.twitter.com/mH2wZBOYov

    — Sri Lanka Cricket 🇱🇰 (@OfficialSLC) March 14, 2022

    But survive he did—and that’s the essence of his batting. Scoring robust, generally ugly runs, nudging, nurdling, tucking and ticking away like a cabbie on a busy road. He started with uncharacteristic aggression—stepping out to Jadeja and drilling him by midwicket. He then tried a reverse sweep and missed—although later he unfurled a flurry of them—earlier than edging the subsequent ball previous the grasp of Virat Kohli at first slip. At no level he appeared absolutely assured—there was a wicket-at-any-time vibe—not the security locker as he usually is. But he didn’t care, so long as he survived.

    In the top, you won’t take house a single stroke he had performed, however you would possibly bear in mind the braveheart who defied India for shut to 3 periods, the person who returned to the pavilion along with his jersey drenched in sweat and smeared with mud. On a wider be aware, that appears to be the entire objective of his worldwide profession. To assist Sri Lanka survive the hardest of their transitional phases, selflessly and courageously.

    Sri Lanka’s captain Dimuth Karunaratne celebrates scoring fifty runs through the third day of the second cricket take a look at match between India and Sri Lanka in Bengaluru, India, Monday, March 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

    He took over the reins of a group that was in utter mess, a group that had been thrashed six occasions in a row. He was a stranger to captaincy, however he didn’t draw back from it. At first, he flinched in its burden. He later advised Sunday Times (Lanka): “Everything that was happening around us–the allegations of match-fixing, our own performances, the Board issues and so on. And then captaincy entails a lot of responsibilities and. I had to do all that, like team meetings, selections, planning, facing media etcetera. I was not used to these.” And then he led them to the historic sequence win in South Africa, nonetheless the one Asian group that has managed the elusive feat.

    Though Sri Lanka by no means hit these excessive notes once more—and is liable to extremes—Karunaratne has been the guiding gentle, hiding from the limelight when the group wins however shielding his group when it loses. He didn’t bask within the afterglow of his hundred, however sighed that “I would have been happier if we had won the match.”

    His captaincy numbers will not be as dangerous as their efficiency on this sequence. He has gained and misplaced an equal variety of video games (7). He was unflinching in his perception that Sri Lanka might reverse their string of failures. On the sector, he won’t be essentially the most expressive of captains, however is omnipresent, all the time speaking to his bowlers, all the time preoccupying the fielders, hiding his angst after they drop catches, all the time speaking to his companions on the different finish, guiding them, encouraging. With the bat, he averages 49.4 as captain (10 notches higher than his total determine of 39.5), a staggering quantity contemplating that he opens in an period the place openers usually have middling averages.

    As many as six of 14 a whole bunch have arrived in 34 outings as captain. Many of them had been misplaced causes, just like the 103 on the Wanderers and 107 on the Chinnaswamy. But it’s the tragicness of these knocks that makes him all of the extra endearing. You won’t bear in mind a single stroke he performed on Monday, however you bear in mind the person with a lion’s coronary heart.

  • ‘Creating rift between players’: Angelo Mathews, Dimuth Karunaratne reply to Muralitharan’s allegations

    Sri Lanka’s senior cricketers Angelo Mathews and Dimuth Karunaratne have hit again at former cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan after he slammed some senior gamers from the present workforce for the continuing contract dispute between the gamers and Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC).
    In a letter written to Muralitharan, as reported by Island Cricket, Mathews and Karunaratne mentioned the continuing dispute isn’t solely associated to cash.
    “It is unfair and untrue that you state that the issue in the contracts was purely money,” the letter learn. “We feel that you were not properly informed of the correct sequence of events, or was possibly given wrong information. Possibly by parties who wish to create a rift between the players and the administration and create disharmony,” it added.
    READ | SLC contract dispute: Muttiah Muralitharan slams 4 senior cricketers
    It additional mentioned, “You seemingly showed a great degree of dissatisfaction and hatred against the entire team and us, where we were referred to by name… continuously harping on failures of players could be quite detrimental to the players morale. Easily, such could have been done at meetings rather than on a Live TV program.”

    While talking in an interview to Hiru TV final week, former off-spinner Muralitharan had held Matthews and Karunaratne as among the many prime suspects for the complete contract tussle. Murali had additionally mentioned the Sri Lankan workforce’s poor efficiency is as a result of disturbing workforce setting.

  • SA vs SL, 2nd Test: Dimuth Karunaratne’s 91 retains Sri Lanka alive after Vishwa Fernando’s five-for

    Image Source : TWITTER/@OFFICIALSLC Dimuth Karunaratne
    South Africa started to interrupt down Sri Lanka’s resistance late on the second day of the second and ultimate take a look at on Monday to go away the vacationers an uphill battle to save lots of the match and the sequence.
    Sri Lanka was 150-4 in its second innings at stumps for a lead of solely 5 runs with just one extra acknowledged batsman to return. Its hopes of setting South Africa a aggressive goal and having an opportunity of a series-leveling win on the Wanderers in all probability lay with captain Dimuth Karunaratne, who was 91 not out in a gritty final stand for his workforce.

    Only one different batsman managed to carry off South Africa’s tempo bowlers on a Wanderers pitch that has been enjoying usually robust for batsmen. In simply two days, 24 wickets have fallen.
    Lahiru Thirimanne, known as into the workforce amid Sri Lanka’s damage emergency, made 31 and fought alongside his captain in a partnership of 82.
    But Thirimanne’s dismissal to an edge down the legside off quick bowler Lungi Ngidi heralded a burst of Sri Lankan wickets.
    Kusal Mendis went for his second duck of the take a look at in Ngidi’s subsequent over, additionally to a catch down the legside to wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock, though this one noticed de Kock dive full stretch and clutch the prospect with each gloves.
    Debutant Minod Bhanuka got here and went for 1 and Sri Lanka’s renewed positivity following Vishwa Fernando’s stellar bowling efficiency earlier within the day was minimize quick.
    South Africa already leads the sequence 1-0 and is determined for its personal revival having not gained a take a look at sequence in two years.

    Sri Lanka does have the benefit of the Johannesburg pitch, which can probably be particularly troublesome for South Africa to bat on final. Sri Lanka does want lots extra runs, although, to make it a sport.
    The Sri Lankans even have good reminiscences to name on, having gained their final sequence in South Africa in 2019 in opposition to all expectations, and in opposition to all odds when dealing with a seemingly determined scenario within the final sport.
    On that event, Kusal Perera hit a 153 not out to grab victory. This time, Perera was the primary wicket to fall for Sri Lanka in its second innings. Ngidi bowled him for 1 to spark joyous celebrations from the South African fielders on the exit of the Sri Lankan participant that has annoyed them probably the most this sequence.
    South Africa additionally started the day in a powerful place, 148-1 in its first innings and already closing in on Sri Lanka’s tame 157 all out batting first.
    Dean Elgar made 127 for his thirteenth take a look at century and placed on a stand of 184 with Rassie van der Dussen (67) to take South Africa into the lead, and seemingly in place to make the benefit an enormous one at 218-1.
    Sri Lanka discovered its struggle within the hour earlier than lunch and Dushmantha Chameera’s success in getting Elgar to edge to first slip straight after a mid-session drinks break sparked one other of these clutches of wickets. Van der Dussen adopted the very subsequent over and from 218-1, South Africa misplaced 9 wickets for 84 runs to be all out for 302.
    Fernando was instrumental in reining in South Africa, utilizing the pitch to good impact to run by means of the center and decrease order and provides Sri Lanka hope along with his 5-101.
    Fernando’s career-best figures had been magnified by Sri Lanka’s personnel issues. It was already lacking two skilled bowlers by means of damage earlier than the sequence, and misplaced two fast bowlers to damage within the first take a look at. Fernando, enjoying in simply his tenth take a look at, is probably the most skilled in Sri Lanka’s assault on the Wanderers and rose to the event.
    So did skipper Karunaratne, who battled to the shut unbeaten and in sight of a century. Karunaratne’s 91 had come off 116 with 17 fours. He had Niroshan Dickwella with him on 18 not out.

  • Depleted Sri Lanka nonetheless stand an opportunity to beat South Africa: Captain Dimuth Karunaratne

    Image Source : AP Dimuth Karunaratne
    Sri Lanka will likely be lacking numerous key gamers however nonetheless have an opportunity to win of their second Test in opposition to South Africa, mentioned captain Dimuth Karunaratne on Saturday.
    “We don’t have our best XI but we have some very good youngsters who have done well in domestic competition and can make the step up,” Karunaratne instructed a information convention on Saturday on the eve of the match in Johannesburg.

    “I feel the youngsters will do their best. I believe we can do it and we have a good chance to win. I’ve never faced a situation like this and maybe no one has, where in one match you lose three bowlers,” he added.
    Dinesh Chandimal, Dhananjaya de Silva, Kasun Rajitha and Lahiru Kumara have all suffered critical accidents that guidelines them out of the second Test. Senior quick bowler Suranga Lakmal, in the meantime must cross a late health take a look at to keep away from being sidelined.
    “When we started we had a balanced attack, with bowlers I could use for various roles. But in the first innings we lost that. We had been in a position where we could have even dominated the game,” mentioned Karunaratne.