After drawing the 2-match sequence towards Australia, Sri Lanka are combating laborious towards Pakistan in Galle to take care of their successful spree within the longest format. The hosts bundled out Babar Azam & co for 218 within the first innings. And now, they’re eyeing to set a difficult goal, having already taken a second-inning lead of greater than 270 runs with two wickets remaining.
The Sri Lankans appear to be having the sting over the continued face-off however a couple of gamers from the touring occasion have managed to garner consideration with their particular person performances.
The second day of the sport witnessed visiting captain Babar Azam getting a scintillating hundred, his seventh in Check cricket. He scored 119 with the assistance of 11 boundaries and a few sixes earlier than falling prey to Maheesh Teekshana.
Sri Lanka vs Pakistan, 1st Check, Day 3 Dwell Scorecard and Commentary
A day later, ace leg-spinner Yasir Shah shocked Kusal Mendis with a surprising supply which reminded the viewers of Shane Warne’s ‘Ball of the Century’.
The incident occurred through the 56th over of Sri Lanka’s 2nd innings. Yasir’s supply was pitched means outdoors the leg stump, however the huge flip breached Mendis’ defence. The batter did all the fitting issues he may have achieved towards this supply however couldn’t deal with the insane quantity of flip. The classical supply went clipped the highest of the off stump, making it an impressive supply bowled by a spinner.
Magnificence from Yasir Shah like Shane Warne’s Ball to Gatting … pic.twitter.com/EKNgpZqZl6
— Taimoor Zaman (@taimoorze) July 18, 2022
WHAT A DELIVERY! 👀
Yasir Shah presents: Shane Warne’s ‘Ball of the Century’ – a reside exhibition#SLvPAK #PAKvSL pic.twitter.com/Ic7vLUPel6
— 🏏Flashscore Cricket Commentators (@FlashCric) July 18, 2022
Earlier on Saturday, Yasir turned the fifth-highest wicket-taker for Pakistan in Check cricket. He received previous the legendary Abdul Qadir after dismissing Angelo Mathews for a 15-ball duck on Day 1 of the Check match.
Then again, the Pakistan batters had a troublesome time dealing with the Sri Lankan bowling assault. Prabath Jayasuriya bagged a five-wicket haul to cut back the guests to 148/8 within the first innings. However Babar stitched a invaluable stand of 70 for the final wicket with Naseem Shah, who scored simply 5 runs off 52 balls, pulling Pakistan innings out of bother.
Whereas wickets continued to tumble at one finish, Babar Azam put up a gritty resistance on the different. As he has made a behavior of, he broke yet one more file throughout his innings — he turned the quickest Pakistan batter to 10,000 worldwide runs throughout codecs and fourth total.
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