Last Updated: April 27, 2023, 18:05 IST
Kusal Mendis scored 245 off 291. (AFP Photo)
The top-four of Sri Lanka’s batting order scored 100 every – two of them double-tons – as they set a brand new group file at Galle
Nishan Madushka and Kusal Mendis each made double centuries towards Ireland Thursday as Sri Lanka’s high 4 batsmen all hit a whole bunch for less than the third time in Test historical past.
The hosts declared their first innings on 704 for 3 after tea on the fourth day of the second Test, 212 runs forward. Ireland have been 54/2 in their second innings at stumps, nonetheless trailing by 158 runs.
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Sri Lanka now have one day to safe a win and a 2-0 sequence victory that will keep the guests’ one hundred pc dropping file in Tests.
Madushka transformed his maiden Test century right into a double hundred when he reduce Matthew Humphreys for 4, changing into the second-youngest Sri Lankan to attain a Test 200 after Mahela Jayawardene.
He was dismissed for 205 in the third over after lunch, lbw to Andy McBrine, with Ireland efficiently reviewing the choice after the preliminary enchantment was turned down.
Madushka’s marathon knock lasted six minutes in need of eight hours after he confronted 339 deliveries and hit 22 fours and a six.
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Mendis, Sri Lanka’s captain-in-waiting who had twice been dismissed in the 190s, reached his first Test 200 by pushing a Ben White supply behind sq. to steal a single.
He amassed 245 runs and was one in need of Wasim Akram’s world file of 12 sixes in a Test innings earlier than he was caught at long-off trying to equal that mark.
Angelo Mathews was dismissed for a duck in the primary Test and was put down on one this match, however made probably the most of his reprieve to publish his sixteenth Test hundred.
That gave the hosts their quadruple-centurions entry in the historical past books, after India towards Bangladesh in 2007 and Pakistan towards Sri Lanka in 2019.
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Captain Dimuth Karunaratne, who scored 115 on Wednesday, declared instantly.
Their whole of 704 for 3 was additionally the highest-ever rating in Galle, eclipsing Bangladesh’s 638 all out in 2013.
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