sri lanka cricket video highlights in SANTA ROSA sri lanka cricket video highlights SANTA ROSA

sri lanka cricket video highlights in SANTA ROSA

sri lanka cricket video highlights SANTA ROSA

sri lanka cricket video highlights in SANTA ROSA.The tourists, starting again 227 behind, reached stumps 165 in credit meaning the lions still have plenty to do to close out a victory which had looked a near formality 24 hours earlier.
Dilshan lived up to his counterattacking billing with 17 fours and two sixes from only 110 balls, dominating a doublecentury opening stand.
Tall lefthander paranavitana provided the contrast and complement, in a more measured contribution which lasted 216 balls and contained 18 boundaries.
Among the lions bowlers, steven finn was impressive in a testing midafternoon spell.
He was rewarded with two wickets, and there was one each for his three frontline pace partners as well as ravi bopara.
The hosts were wicketless in the morning as dilshan and paranavitana coasted to 138, and the stand had realised exactly 200 when the captain finally went.
A seam attack which had bowled sri lanka out in little more than two sessions on friday rarely came close to disturbing the openers before lunch.
They did not bowl particularly badly, on a pitch which appeared to have lost some of its bounce.
But there were enough loose deliveries for dilshan in particular to prosper, and not enough threatening ones to discomfort the opposition.
Paranavitana had a little good fortune on his side, squirting jade dernbach for one boundary perilously close to the slips shortly before reaching his halfcentury.
Dilshan, setting the pace, had one escape on 95 when samit patel put down his second catch of the match off graham onions this time in the gully.
But finn then got one to bounce on dilshan, and jonny bairstow dived forward to take the catch behind.