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Sri Lanka tour of Zimbabwe 2020 | 1st Test – Day 3

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Sri Lanka were at the driving seat at the stumps of day 3 of the 1st Test between Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka at Harare, as they are still trail by 63 runs with 6 wickets still in hand. Angelo Mathews is nearing his 10th Test ton while the other overnight batsman Dhananjaya de Silva is short of 8 runs for his 50-run milestone.

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Session 01

Sri Lanka resumed their 1st innings in reply to Zimbabwe’s 358 on the overnight score of 42/1 with the skipper Dimuth Karunaratne and No. 03 Kusal Mendis in the middle on 12 & 6 respectively. The pair showed intent to find boundaries as they played positively, attacking the Zimbabwean seamers from the first over.

In the last ball before drinks break, one of Karunaratne’s signature flicks through mid-wicket unfortunately ended up in the hands of Ainsley Ndlovu off Victor Nyauchi and the Sri Lankan skipper had to depart for 37. This is the 6th consecutive time Karunaratne failed to covert his decent starts to a big one.

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From there onwards, the visitors remained unscathed in the morning session as Kusal Mendis and former skipper Angelo Mathews managed to see the team through to lunch, although there were a couple of run out chances missed by the Zimbabwean fielders. In the last over before lunch, a vigorous pull shot by Mendis hit Kevin Kasuza, who was at Short Leg, on the helmet, forcing him to be taken off the field due to him experiencing some dizziness. He did not return to field for the rest of the day.

Session 02

the post-lunch session was dominated by Mendis-Mathews partnership, as the pair guided Sri Lanka total past 180. Mendis, the aggressor of the partnership, looked solid as ever throughout out his innings, pulling out his bread and butter pull shot many times to deposit the ball beyond the boundary.

Mendis played magnificently for his 80 off 163 balls before a slight loss of concentration after 227 minutes, costing Mendis his wicket as he chased a wide one off Victor Nyauchi’s bowling, and nicked to wicket keeper Brendon Taylor.

Session 03

Two former skippers, Angelo Mathews and Dinesh Chandimal, joined in the middle after tea to cut down the deposit for Sri Lanka, but an unfortunate dismissal (bottom-edged the ball onto his boot, with the ball then being lobbed straight back to the bowler) led to Chandimal’s demise when he was on 12.

The next man in was Dhananjaya de Silva, who architected 2 centuries in his last 3 Test matches. De Silva did not waste any time to settle on the Harare pitch as he drew his flawless drives through cover and nonchalant pulls early in the innings, outshining his senior partner.

De Silva raced to 42 at the stumps of day 03, while Mathews’ slow and steady approach earned him 92 off 253 balls. Mathews played a really patient innings for Sri Lanka, restricting himself from his usual stroke play. Sri Lanka are still 63 runs behind of Zimbabwe’s 1st innings.

Result


Sri Lanka
515/9 (176.2) & 14/0 (3)

Zimbabwe
358/10 (148) & 170/10 (92)

Batsmen R B 4s 6s SR
Prince Masvaure c Dimuth Karunaratne b Lasith Embuldeniya 55 149 7 0 36.91
Kevin Kasuza lbw b Lahiru Kumara 63 214 5 1 29.44
Craig Ervine b Suranga Lakmal 85 187 5 3 45.45
Brendan Taylor lbw b Suranga Lakmal 21 47 1 1 44.68
Sean Williams c Niroshan Dickwella b Lasith Embuldeniya 18 46 1 1 39.13
Sikandar Raza st Niroshan Dickwella b Lasith Embuldeniya 41 65 6 0 63.08
Regis Chakabva c Angelo Mathews b Lasith Embuldeniya 8 20 1 0 40.00
Donald Tiripano not out 44 103 3 0 42.72
Kyle Jarvis b Lasith Embuldeniya 1 5 0 0 20.00
Ainsley Ndlovu c Kusal Mendis b Lahiru Kumara 5 25 1 0 20.00
Victor Nyauchi c Lakshan Sandakan b Suranga Lakmal 11 29 1 0 37.93


Extras 6 (b 0 , lb 4 , nb 2, w 0, pen 0)
Total 358/10 (148 Overs, RR: 2.42)
Fall of Wickets 1-96 (50.1) Prince Masvaure, 2-164 (75.3) Kevin Kasuza, 3-208 (91.5) Brendan Taylor, 4-247 (106.3) Sean Williams, 5-247 (107.2) Craig Ervine, 6-266 (114.2) Regis Chakabva, 7-307 (128.4) Sikandar Raza, 8-309 (130.1) Kyle Jarvis, 9-328 (139.1) Ainsley Ndlovu, 10-358 (147.6) Victor Nyauchi,

Bowling O M R W Econ
Suranga Lakmal 27 10 53 3 1.96
Kasun Rajitha 29 9 55 0 1.90
Lasith Embuldeniya 42 12 114 5 2.71
Lahiru Kumara 29 8 82 2 2.83
Dhananjaya de Silva 21 8 50 0 2.38
Batsmen R B 4s 6s SR
Dimuth Karunaratne c Ainsley Ndlovu b Victor Nyauchi 37 78 4 0 47.44
Oshada Fernando b Donald Tiripano 21 41 2 0 51.22
Kusal Mendis c Brendan Taylor b Victor Nyauchi 80 163 8 0 49.08
Angelo Mathews not out 200 468 16 3 42.74
Dinesh Chandimal c & b Sean Williams 12 32 1 0 37.50
Dhananjaya de Silva c Prince Masvaure b Victor Nyauchi 63 112 7 0 56.25
Niroshan Dickwella lbw b Sikandar Raza 63 120 3 0 52.50
Suranga Lakmal st Regis Chakabva b Sikandar Raza 27 41 0 2 65.85
Lasith Embuldeniya b Sikandar Raza 0 1 0 0 0.00
Kasun Rajitha lbw b Sean Williams 1 6 0 0 16.67


Extras 11 (b 2 , lb 5 , nb 4, w 0, pen 0)
Total 515/9 (176.2 Overs, RR: 2.92)
Fall of Wickets 1-32 (11.1) Oshada Fernando, 2-92 (28.6) Dimuth Karunaratne, 3-184 (66.2) Kusal Mendis, 4-227 (81.4) Dinesh Chandimal, 5-325 (116.2) Dhananjaya de Silva, 6-461 (160.3) Niroshan Dickwella, 7-510 (173.4) Suranga Lakmal, 8-510 (173.5) Lasith Embuldeniya, 9-515 (176.2) Kasun Rajitha,

Bowling O M R W Econ
Kyle Jarvis 37 12 84 0 2.27
Victor Nyauchi 32 7 69 3 2.16
Donald Tiripano 31 3 82 1 2.65
Ainsley Ndlovu 28 3 107 0 3.82
Sean Williams 32.2 3 104 2 3.23
Sikandar Raza 16 0 62 3 3.88
Batsmen R B 4s 6s SR
Prince Masvaure c Niroshan Dickwella b Suranga Lakmal 17 58 2 0 29.31
Brian Mudzinganyama lbw b Suranga Lakmal 16 62 2 0 25.81
Craig Ervine c Dimuth Karunaratne b Suranga Lakmal 7 13 0 0 53.85
Brendan Taylor c Kusal Mendis b Suranga Lakmal 38 58 5 1 65.52
Sean Williams c Niroshan Dickwella b Kasun Rajitha 39 79 5 0 49.37
Sikandar Raza st Niroshan Dickwella b Lasith Embuldeniya 17 55 1 0 30.91
Regis Chakabva b Lasith Embuldeniya 26 142 1 0 18.31
Donald Tiripano lbw b Lahiru Kumara 6 61 1 0 9.84
Kyle Jarvis b Lahiru Kumara 1 15 0 0 6.67
Ainsley Ndlovu b Lahiru Kumara 0 7 0 0 0.00
Victor Nyauchi not out 0 3 0 0 0.00


Extras 3 (b 2 , lb 0 , nb 1, w 0, pen 0)
Total 170/10 (92 Overs, RR: 1.85)
Fall of Wickets 1-33 (18.2) Prince Masvaure, 2-36 (20.3) Brian Mudzinganyama, 3-41 (22.3) Craig Ervine, 4-120 (44.3) Brendan Taylor, 5-120 (45.2) Sean Williams, 6-148 (62.1) Sikandar Raza, 7-159 (81.6) Donald Tiripano, 8-163 (85.6) Kyle Jarvis, 9-165 (89.4) Ainsley Ndlovu, 10-170 (91.6) Regis Chakabva,

Bowling O M R W Econ
Suranga Lakmal 20 8 27 4 1.35
Kasun Rajitha 14 6 23 1 1.64
Dhananjaya de Silva 11 6 12 0 1.09
Lahiru Kumara 21 8 32 3 1.52
Lasith Embuldeniya 26 8 74 2 2.85


Batsmen R B 4s 6s SR
Oshada Fernando not out 4 5 0 0 80.00
Dimuth Karunaratne not out 10 13 1 0 76.92


Extras 0 (b 0 , lb 0 , nb 0, w 0, pen 0)
Total 14/0 (3 Overs, RR: 4.67)
Bowling O M R W Econ
Donald Tiripano 2 0 8 0 4.00
Victor Nyauchi 1 0 6 0 6.00



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