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- Updated: November 1, 2016
Sri Lanka 247 for 6 (Karunaratne 110, de Silva 64, Mumba 4-50 ) and 537 lead Zimbabwe 373 by 411 runs Scorecard and ball-by-ball details
Dimuth Karunaratne struck his second fifty-plus score of the match and his first Test century in a year to bump up Sri Lanka’s lead to 411 before rain wiped out almost all of the third session. His 94-run stand for the fifth wicket with Dhananjaya de Silva, which came at 4.47 runs an over, on a surface with variable bounce, countered debutant fast bowler Carl Mumba’s strikes and helped Sri Lanka re-establish their dominance in Harare.
With a thunderstorm predicted for Wednesday, Sri Lanka might consider an overnight declaration to force a result.
In the absence of Angelo Mathews and Dinesh Chandimal, Karunaratne was the most experienced batsman in the side. Yet, he was under pressure going into the Zimbabwe tour, having bagged eight single-digit scores in his last 12 innings. His slump could have been extended to 10 single-digit scores in 14 innings had Zimbabwe hung onto their chances. He, however, rode his luck, and followed his chancy 56 in the first innings with a more secure century in the second.
He was dropped on 5 by Brian Chari, diving to his left at extra cover, on the fourth morning, but other than that Karunaratne …
