Sri Lanka scent sequence victory as New Zealand 199-5 after follow-on

Sri Lanka’s Prabath Jayasuriya throws a ball as New Zealand’s Glenn Phillips watches throughout the day three of the second check cricket match between Sri Lanka and New Zealand in Galle , Sri Lanka, Saturday,
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Sri Lanka was simply 5 wickets away from a crushing second Check and sequence victory over New Zealand on Saturday with the vacationers 199-5 at stumps on the third day, having adopted on after collapsing to 88 all out of their first innings.

Tom Blundell was not out 47 and Glenn Phillips on 32 when dangerous mild compelled an early finish to play in Galle after debutant off-spinner Nishan Peiris took three top-order wickets.

Devon Conway, battling to save lots of each his group and his place within the facet, joined forces with former captain Kane Williamson in a dogged 97-run partnership for the second wicket.

De Silva lured Conway, who had made 61 off 62 balls, right into a drive in the direction of the vacant deep cowl boundary that was caught by Dinesh Chandimal in a spectacular backward operating catch.

Williamson, the world’s second-ranked batsman behind England’s Joe Root, departed when he misjudged a shot off Peiris, with Ramesh Mendis grabbing a tumbling catch at long-on.

Tom Latham had been the primary wicket to fall after the follow-on was enforced simply earlier than lunch, caught by Pathum Nissanka for a duck at brief leg off Peiris, who earlier had taken three first-innings wickets.

Sri Lanka declared Friday on a mammoth 602-5 for of their first innings then spinner Prabath Jayasuriya took 6-42 for his ninth five-wicket haul because the guests did not get to 3 figures.

Jayasuriya might want to dismiss all 5 remaining New Zealand batsman to equal the file for quickest bowler to 100 Check wickets, held since 1896 by England’s George Lohmann who reached the milestone in his sixteenth Check.

Resuming at a precarious 22-2 of their first innings, New Zealand’s batsmen barely put up a combat and their highest partnership was the 20 added by final pair Mitchell Santner, who high scored with 29, and William O’Rourke (two).

Captain de Silva took 5 catches at first slip to tie the file for many in a Check innings by a non-wicketkeeper, a milestone shared with 15 others.