෴||Pakistan tour of Sri Lanka 2014 Official Thread||෴|Aug 6- Aug 30|2Test -3ODI|

[Henry L]

96.2
Junaid Khan to Herath, no run, short outside off, and Herath throws himself into an attempted pull and misses the ball. Junaid says something, and Herath walks up to him and they have a bit of a chat before the batsman proceeds towards the umpire and says something to him as well. Then Richard Illingworth, the umpire at the bowler's end, goes to Ian Gould at square leg and they have a word with each other too. Hmmm.

 

[Henry L]

296/9

 

[Henry L]

300 comes up for Sri Lanka

 

[Henry L]

97 overs
301/9

 

[Henry L]

Current partnership 17 runs, 4.1 overs, RR: 4.08 (Herath 5, Welegedara 12)

 

[Henry L]

Welegedara smashes Wahab Riaz for four

 

[Henry L]

Welegedara smashes another boundary

 

[Henry L]

and yet another boundary

 

[Fire Five]

api makat dinaida

 

[Henry L]

api makat dinaida

balamu chance ekak thiyenawa

 

[geethq]

apo nakiya spam karala goo karala thread eka
balannath appiriyai

 

[Henry L]

SL 314/9 (98.0 ov, UWMBCA Welegedara 25*, HMRKB Herath 13*, Wahab Riaz 3/88) - Drinks | Live Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[Henry L]

Run rate 3.20

 

[Henry L]

apo nakiya spam karala goo karala thread eka
balannath appiriyai

 

[Henry L]

"Hmm... SL haven't been beaten here for 10 years and 14 tests, since 2000 they have only been beaten 3 times, twice batting first (England and Pakistan) where they failed to post 300, once batting second where Oz put 401 on the board. Interestingly, Eng and Pak scored roughly the same as SL in their first innings, SL lost those in the 3rd innings. Oz resorted to a certain S Warne in the forth innings of that game. SL have never been beaten after posting more than 300 in the first innings, although they did lose after scoring 547 in reply to Oz's 256 in 1992, showing that even if Pak can get a grand total, it's not over until the final day."

 

[Henry L]

99 overs
316/9

 

[Henry L]

Hearth reverse-sweep for four

 

[Henry L]

99.3
Abdur Rehman to Herath, OUT, and that is that. Herath pushes forward to defend outside off, playing for turn, and it goes pretty much straight on and takes an outside edge through to first slip. Simple catch for Younis Khan, who becomes the first Pakistan cricketer to take 100 Test catches
HMRKB Herath c Younis Khan b Abdur Rehman 17 (27b 2x4 0x6) SR: 62.96

 

[Henry L]

SL 320 all out

 

[Henry L]

Sri Lanka's last two pairs have added 59 today. Much more than Pakistan would have wanted, and it's taken them to a fairly useful first-innings score. This pitch isn't the usual SSC surface, but it's still a decent one to bat on. Let's see how Pakistan's batsmen will play from here, particularly after their second-innings implosion at Galle.