Gaul: In the second Test between Sri Lanka and Pakistan played in Galle, the Lankan team got a big victory. They beat Pakistan by a huge margin of 246 runs. Sri Lanka’s biggest win in Tests against Pakistan in terms of runs. With this, the Test series between the two teams became equal at 1-1.
Batting first, Sri Lanka scored 378 runs in the match. In response, Pakistan’s team was all-out for 231 runs. Ramesh Mendis took the most wickets in this innings for Sri Lanka. He sent 5 Pakistani batsmen to the pavilion. At the same time, 3 wickets came into Prabhat Jayasuriya’s account.
In the second innings, Sri Lanka declared the innings by scoring 360 runs. Pakistan got the target of 508 runs. In reply, Pakistan could score only 261 runs. Captain Babar Azam was seen struggling alone. He played an innings of 81 runs. Prabhat Jayasuriya and Ramesh Mendis bowled dangerously in the second innings as well. Jayasuriya took 5 and Ramesh took 4 wickets.
Sri Lanka reached number three in Test Championship
With this win, Sri Lanka has moved up to third place in the ICC Test Championship. Team India is fourth and Pakistan’s team is number five. At the same time, South Africa is at number 1 and Australia’s team is present at number 2.
Sri Lanka’s team has drawn the second consecutive series at home. Earlier, in the Test series played against Australia, the Sri Lankan team performed well and the series was drawn 1-1. Prabhat Jayasuriya bowled amazingly in this series as well. So far he has played 3 test matches and has taken 29 wickets. Only Narendra Hirwani took more wickets than him in the first three Tests. He took 31 wickets.
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