GALLE (Sri Lanka): Nishan Madushka and Kusal Mendis each made double centuries towards Ireland on Thursday as Sri Lanka’s best 4 batsmen all hit masses for best the 3rd time in Test historical past.
The hosts declared their first innings on 704 for 3 after tea at the fourth day of the second one Test, 212 runs forward.
Sri Lanka had simply over an afternoon to protected a win and a 2-0 sequence victory that may handle the guests’ one hundred pc dropping report in Tests.
Madushka transformed her maiden Test century right into a double hundred when she lower Matthew Humphreys for 4, changing into the second-youngest Sri Lankan to attain a Test 200 after Mahela Jayawardene.
He was once brushed aside for 205 within the 3rd over after lunch, lbw to Andy McBrinewith Ireland effectively reviewing the verdict after the preliminary enchantment was once grew to become down.
Madushka’s marathon knock lasted six mins wanting 8 hours after she confronted 339 deliveries and hit 22 fours and a six.
Mendis, Sri Lanka’s captain-in-waiting who had two times been brushed aside within the 190s, reached his first Test 200 by way of pushing a Ben White supply at the back of sq. to thieve a unmarried.
He gathered 245 runs and was once one wanting Wasim Akram’s international report of 12 sixes in a Test innings sooner than he was once stuck at long-off making an attempt to equivalent that mark.
Angelo Mathews was once brushed aside for a duck within the first Test and was once put down on one this fit, however made essentially the most of his reprieve to submit his sixteenth Test hundred.
That gave the hosts their quadruple-centurion access within the historical past books, after India towards Bangladesh in 2007 and Pakistan towards Sri Lanka in 2019.
Captain Dimuth Karunaratne, who scored 115 on Wednesday, declared straight away.
Their overall of 704 for 3 was once additionally the highest-ever ranking in Galle, eclipsing Bangladesh’s 638 all out in 2013.
The hosts declared their first innings on 704 for 3 after tea at the fourth day of the second one Test, 212 runs forward.
Sri Lanka had simply over an afternoon to protected a win and a 2-0 sequence victory that may handle the guests’ one hundred pc dropping report in Tests.
Madushka transformed her maiden Test century right into a double hundred when she lower Matthew Humphreys for 4, changing into the second-youngest Sri Lankan to attain a Test 200 after Mahela Jayawardene.
He was once brushed aside for 205 within the 3rd over after lunch, lbw to Andy McBrinewith Ireland effectively reviewing the verdict after the preliminary enchantment was once grew to become down.
Madushka’s marathon knock lasted six mins wanting 8 hours after she confronted 339 deliveries and hit 22 fours and a six.
Mendis, Sri Lanka’s captain-in-waiting who had two times been brushed aside within the 190s, reached his first Test 200 by way of pushing a Ben White supply at the back of sq. to thieve a unmarried.
He gathered 245 runs and was once one wanting Wasim Akram’s international report of 12 sixes in a Test innings sooner than he was once stuck at long-off making an attempt to equivalent that mark.
Angelo Mathews was once brushed aside for a duck within the first Test and was once put down on one this fit, however made essentially the most of his reprieve to submit his sixteenth Test hundred.
That gave the hosts their quadruple-centurion access within the historical past books, after India towards Bangladesh in 2007 and Pakistan towards Sri Lanka in 2019.
Captain Dimuth Karunaratne, who scored 115 on Wednesday, declared straight away.
Their overall of 704 for 3 was once additionally the highest-ever ranking in Galle, eclipsing Bangladesh’s 638 all out in 2013.
