Veteran Dinesh Chandimal scored an unbeaten double century and left-arm spinner Prabhat Jayasuriya hit six wickets each in both innings to level the two-match series one-on-one after Sri Lanka thrashed Australia by an innings and 39 runs in the second Test on Monday. Took. Australia’s team lost the match in the last session of the day, losing nine wickets with one day’s play remaining. Let us tell you that Sri Lanka has won a Test match from Australia after six years. Earlier, he had won in August 2016. So far 33 Test matches have been played between the two countries and Sri Lanka has won 5 and Australia has won 20 matches. 8 matches have been drawn.
This is Sri Lanka’s first innings win against Australia. Sri Lanka took a 190-run lead after scoring 554 in their first innings and then bowled out Australia for 151 runs. Australia got a good start in the second innings by the openers, but Ramesh Mendis broke his 49-run partnership with Usman Khawaja (29) by lbw David Warner (24), after which Jayasuriya asked the middle-order batsmen to stay at the crease. Not given a chance
Jayasuriya, who found a place in the team before the Test match due to several players getting infected with the corona virus, made the Australian batsmen dance with his spin with excellent control of the ball. This is the fourth best performance by a bowler on debut. After 14 years on Test debut, a bowler took 12 wickets. After losing the opening match of the series by 10 wickets within three days, Sri Lanka made a spectacular comeback. The four main players were not available for selection due to the COVID-19 infection. Due to which three players got the opportunity to debut.
In this, Jayasuriya was the man of the match with 12 wickets for 177 runs, Mahesh Teekshana took three wickets and Kamindu Mendis scored a half-century. Former captain Chandimal laid the foundation for Sri Lanka’s victory by playing the best innings of his career. Chandimal, who had batted for 118 at the start of the day, remained unbeaten on 206. He became the first player from his country to score a double century against Australia. He batted for more than nine hours and faced 326 balls, hitting 16 fours and five sixes.
By the time Sri Lanka lost their ninth wicket, Chandimal was on 159. He shared a 49-run partnership with Kasun Rajita for the 10th wicket. In which Rajita could not open the account and Chandimal scored 48 runs in 18 balls during this period. Chandimal completed his double century against Mitchell Starc with two consecutive sixes. He was adjudged the best player of the series.