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Joe Root and Chris Woakes celebrate after winning the match.
England defeated Sri Lanka by 5 wickets in the first Test match being played between Sri Lanka and England in Manchester. Joe Root scored 62 runs for England chasing the target of 206 runs.
In the second innings, the Sri Lankan team scored 326 runs. Wicketkeeper batsman Dinesh Chandimal scored 79 and Kamindu Mendis scored 113 runs. Matthew Potts and Chris Woakes took 3-3 wickets for England.
Joe Root’s half century
England lost 3 wickets for 70 runs while chasing the runs, but experienced batsman Joe Root stood firm on one side. He scored 62 runs on 128 balls. Player of the Match Jamie Smith scored 111 runs in the first innings and 39 runs in the second innings. Earlier, England was all out for 358 runs in the first innings. Wicketkeeper Jamie Smith from the team scored the first century of his career. The Sri Lankan team scored 236 runs in the first innings.
Joe Root playing the reverse sweep.
Jamie Smith gave England a strong lead
England resumed their innings on the third day with a score of 259/6. Jamie Smith started the innings with a score of 72, in front of him Gus Atkinson was out after scoring 20 runs, but the team’s score crossed 300. Smith scored a century, but he too returned to the pavilion after scoring 111 runs.
In the end, Matthew Potts scored 17, Mark Wood scored 22 and Shoaib Bashir scored 3 runs to take the team’s score to 358 runs. From Sri Lanka, Asitha Fernando took 4 wickets and Prabath Jayasuriya took 3 wickets. Vishwa Fernando took 2 wickets and Milan Ratnayake took one wicket.
Jamie Smith scored the first century of his Test career.
Sri Lanka has a bad start
Sri Lanka was behind by 122 runs in the second innings. The team lost 2 wickets at the score of just one run in the second innings. Nishan Madushka and Kusal Mendis could not even open their account. Chris Woakes sent Madushka and Gus Atkinson sent Mendis to the pavilion.
Sri Lanka recovered in the second session
By the end of the first session, the team lost 2 wickets for 10 runs. Dimuth Karunaratne was out after scoring 27 runs and captain Dhananjay de Silva was out after scoring just 11 runs. Meanwhile, Angelo Mathews handled the innings along with Kamindu Mendis.
Angelo Mathews scored 65 runs.
Mendis also hit a fifty
Mathews scored 65 runs and took the team past 150 runs. After Mathews, Milan Ratnayake was out after scoring just 10 runs. Kamindu Mendis hit a fifty and took the team past 200 runs. By the end of the day’s play, he remained not out with Dinesh Chandimal after scoring 56 runs. Chandimal scored 20 runs.
Sri Lanka has scored 204 runs after losing 6 wickets. The team has taken a lead of 82 runs. Chris Woakes took 2 wickets from England. Gus Atkinson, Mark Wood, Matthew Potts and Joe Root got 1-1 wickets. The fourth day’s play will start at 3:30 pm Indian time.
England took the lead on the second day
Asitha Fernando took 4 wickets in the first innings.
On the second day of the Manchester Test, England started playing from a score of 22/0. Joe Root scored 42, Harry Brook scored 56 and Dan Lawrence scored 30 runs from the team. The start of the day’s play was delayed due to rain, but the team scored 259 runs after losing 6 wickets. Sri Lanka was all out for 236 runs, so England got a lead of 23 runs. Read full news…
Sri Lanka all out on day one
Dhananjay de Silva played a captaincy innings of 74 runs.
Sri Lanka won the toss in Manchester and chose to bat first. Captain Dhananjay de Silva scored 74 and Milan Ratnayake scored 72 runs. The team was all out after scoring 236 runs in 74 overs. Shoaib Bashir and Chris Woakes took 3-3 wickets from England. Read full news…
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