Sri Lanka players celebrate the fall of another Windies batsman.
Earlier, West Indies had bundled out Sri Lanka for 386, with Roston Chase claiming five wickets.
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West Indies were in deep trouble in the first Test against Sri Lanka on Monday as they were reduced to 113 for six at stumps on the second day in reply to the hosts’ first innings total of 386 runs. The tourists, hunting for their maiden Test win in Sri Lanka, are trailing by 273 runs with four wickets in hand Galle, After Sri Lanka failed to take quick wickets, off-spinner Ramesh Mendis took three wickets and the conservative left-arm duo of Praveen Jayawickrama and Lasith Embuldeniya shared three wickets between them.
Openers Craig Brathwaite and Jermaine Blackwood put on 46 runs for the first wicket before Embuldenia trapped Blackwood for 20 runs leg-before. Jayavikrama was working from the city end and Nkruma Bonner took a low catch from one to first slip by Dhananjaya de Silva. , He made one. Then in the 32nd over, Jayavikrama was replaced by off-spinner Mendis and he took two wickets in two balls to put West Indies in all sorts of trouble.
He hit a boundary off the last ball of his first over when Brathwaite was caught at leg slip. Brathwaite scored 41 off 115 balls with seven fours and successfully reversed a decision before tea. Mendis again hit the first ball of his second over when Shai Hope was caught at short leg by Oshada Fernando. He scored 10 runs. Hope came in as a substitute for Jeremy Solozano. On his Test debut, Sollozano was taken to hospital on the first morning when a full-blood pull shot from Dimuth Karunaratne went into his helmet grille.
He spent the night under observation but scans showed there were no serious injuries other than the injury and he returned Galle And after being discharged, the team spent time in the hotel. Jayavikrama switched sides and came on to take the second wicket from Dutch Fort End as Jomel Warican dismissed wicketkeeper Dinesh Chandimal and then ended a review as West Indies’ middle order fell for four wickets for 20 runs.
Earlier, West Indies had bundled out Sri Lanka for 386, with Roston Chase claiming five wickets. Among his victims was Dimuth Karunaratne, whose class 147 came to an end when Joshua da Silva completed a smart stumping. Karunaratne was involved in over two hundred stands along with Pathum Nisanka (56) and Dhananjaya de Silva (61). Chandimal scored 45 runs.
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