Sri Lanka vs England 2nd Test at Pallekele, 14 Nov, 2018

Toss: England, who chose to bat
England 285/10 (75.4)  &  346/10 (80.4)
Sri Lanka 336/10 (103)  &  243/10 (74)
England won by 57 runs
Man of the Match: Joe Root
  • Akila Dananjaya 8 * (27)

Over 2.3 Dilruwan Perera bowls a quicker arm ball to Jack Leach, out LBWgets Leach goes down on his knee and goes for a sweep but he misses and the ball struck on the pads at middle and leg.

Over 19.1 Akila Dananjaya tossed up delivery to Keaton Jennings, out Caught by Dhananjaya de Silva!! Jennings could not adjust as he was committed to the reverse sweep, the ball bounces extra and brushes the glove and lobs off the body to Dhananjaya at slip.

Over 25.5 Malinda Pushpakumara bowls a quicker arm ball to Rory Burns, out Lbw!! Burns decides it is sweep time, down on his knee to play the shot and the ball turns in to beat the blade, struck in front of middle and ball-tracking had hit hitting the middle stump. The Umpire raises the finger.

Over 26.3 Dilruwan Perera bowls it flat in the air to Ben Stokes, out LBW!

Over 40.6Akila Dananjaya bowls quicker and flatter in the air to JC Buttler, and that’s the end of his stay in the middle, clean bowled! .Bowled him!

Over 46.3Akila Dananjaya bowls flighted delivery to Moeen Ali, he is struck on the pad and the Umpire has given that out LBW.Out LBW

Over 69.2 Akila Dananjaya tossed up delivery to Joe Root, out Lbw!! Root was down on his knees as he played the reverse sweep, it's one shot that he's profited a lot, but always fraught with danger. He missed and was caught adjacent in front of middle.

Over 69.3 Akila Dananjaya bowls a quicker arm ball to Sam Curran, out Bowled!! Tossed up from round the wicket, drifted in with the angle, landed around off and then spun away, past Curran's outside leg as he went back, clipped the outside half of the off-stump.

Over 71.6 Akila Dananjaya bowls a quicker arm ball to Adil Rashid, out Lbw!!  A sharp spin from outside off and that caught Rashid on the move, he was going back to work it to the on-side and was struck bang in front of middle and leg

Over 80.4Dilruwan Perera bowls quicker and flatter in the air to JM Anderson, and that’s the end of his stay in the middle, clean bowled! .Bowled him!