බටහිර ඉන්දීය කොදෙව් ශ්රී ලංකා ටෙස්ට් ක්රිකට් තරගාවලිය ශ්රී ලංකා නායක ධනංජය ද සිල්වා ගේ සුපිරි ශතකයත්, දිනේෂ් චන්දිමාල් සහ යොවුන් ක්රීඩක සොනාල් දිනූෂ ගේ ඉනිම් දෙකත් හේතුවෙන් සංචාරක ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් කණ්ඩායම සහ බටහිර ඉන්දීය කොදෙව් කණ්ඩායම අතර තරග 2කින් සමන්විත ටෙස්ට් ක්රිකට…
West Indies Sri Lanka Test Cricket Series
Sri Lanka captain Dhananjaya de Silva's superb century and two innings from Dinesh Chandimal and youngster Sonal Dhindsha helped Sri Lanka, who batted first, score 308 runs in their first innings at the end of the first day of the first match of the two-match Test cricket series between the visiting Sri Lanka cricket team and the West Indies.
The match, which began at the Vivian Richardson Stadium on the 25th, was started by the West Indies team, who won the toss and elected to bat first.
Accordingly, Pathum Nissanka and Nishan Madushka entered the field as the two openers of the Sri Lankan team, but before long after the match began, Pathum Nissanka, who had scored 2 runs in 6 balls for the first wicket, was sent to the stadium by Kimaroch.
Then, Dinesh Chandimal, an experienced batsman in the Sri Lankan team who joined Nishan Madushka, managed to build a successful partnership of 40 runs for the second wicket. As soon as the total was 42, Nishan Madushka, who had scored 23 runs, was bowled by Alzarri Joseph, and Kamindu Mendis, who entered the field after the second wicket, was dismissed without scoring with the first ball he faced, the Sri Lankan scoreboard was recorded at 3 wickets for 42.
However, Sri Lankan captain Dhananjaya de Silva and Dinesh Chandimal were seen making a successful attempt to build the Sri Lankan innings. After the third wicket fell at 42, they were building a successful partnership of 68 runs when unfortunately Dinesh Chandimal was dismissed as the fourth wicket for Sri Lanka, and by then Dinesh had scored a quick 54 runs off 67 balls.
With the total at 110, Sri Lanka's hopes were once again dashed when Alzarri Joseph managed to send Kusal Mendis back to the stadium without scoring a run for the fifth wicket.
Sri Lanka, who were in a desperate situation at 110 for 5, were revived by young batsman Sonal Dinusha and Sri Lanka captain Dhananjaya de Silva, who built a 99-run partnership for the 6th wicket.
Accordingly, when Sonal was dismissed at 209, he had managed to score 43 runs.
Then, when Dhananjaya and Milan Ratnayake were building a 62-run partnership, Justin Grevish managed to remove Dhananjaya de Silva, who was batting and becoming Sri Lanka's anchor, for 120 runs.
Dhananjaya, who was leading the innings, was able to score 120 runs off 168 balls, including 17 fours.
By then, Sri Lanka's scoreboard was 273 for 7.
Then, the West Indies bowlers, who removed Milan Ratnayake for 27 for the 8th wicket at 287 runs and Kasun Rajitha for 8 for the 9th wicket at 303 runs, managed to restrict Sri Lanka's innings to 308 runs in 71.5 overs.
In the bowling, Justin Greaves took 3 wickets for 39 runs, Kemar Roach took 2 wickets for 32 runs, Alzarri Joseph took 2 wickets for 70 runs, Samar Joseph took 2 wickets for 79 runs and Jaden Selish took 1 wicket for 73 runs.
Score summary
Sri Lanka were all out for 308 runs in their first innings at the end of 71.5 overs.
Dhananjaya de Silva 120 runs, Dinesh Chandimal 54 runs, Sonal Dinusha 43 runs, Milan Ratnayake 27 runs, Nishan Madushka 23 runs, Lahiru Kumara 12 not out, Kasun Rajitha 08 runs.
Sisira Indrajith