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Sri Lanka’s batsmen find their fight
- Updated: May 29, 2016
Sri Lanka 101 (Broad 4-40, Woakes 3-9, Anderson 3-36) and 310 for 5 (Chandimal 54*, Siriwardana 35*) trail England 498 by 88 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details
Barring extraordinary events, Sri Lanka are still going to lose the second Test – and potentially by an innings – but they were not, to borrow one of Angelo Mathews’ words, humiliated on the third day as they made England work hard for their rewards in the follow-on. The captain himself played a large part in that, Mathews striking a bristling 80, while there were also half-centuries for Kaushal Silva and Dinesh Chandimal leaving Sri Lanka needing 88 more to make England bat again.
Mahela Jayawardene, one of the players Sri Lanka are trying to learn to live without, talked of setting little targets and trying to make small gains after three consecutive innings that had not crossed 120 – the first time since 1958 that had happened to a Test side. In that regard, removing the match situation for a moment, Sri Lanka’s second innings was a considerable success. In the first three innings of the series they had totalled 311 for 30, so 310 for 5 represented a heartening reversal.
Silva and Mathews added 82 in 21 overs either side of tea as Silva battled against the quicks and Mathews took on Moeen Ali in one of the better contests of the series to date. That partnership was then bettered as Sri Lanka’s highest for the series by Chandimal and Milinda Siriwardana as they added an unbroken 87 to the close.
Both Silva and Mathews fell short of the three figures that would have been a significant tick for Sri Lanka, Silva getting into a tangle against Steven Finn and Mathews receiving a superb delivery from James Anderson whose series haul was 15 wickets at 8.06 by the end of the day. Three of the second-innings wickets involved catches for …
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