Sri Lanka ‘A’ team, who laid a good foundation for their second innings with the strength of the two opening batsmen Oshadha Fernando and Nishan Madushka, managed to reduce the huge score gap of 331 runs scored by the England Lions team in the first innings to 103 runs yesterday (01) evening.
Sri Lanka A team had accumulated 228 runs with the loss of one wicket when the match ended yesterday, which was the second day of the match. There Oshadha Fernando managed to score an excellent century for Sri Lanka and he scored 134 runs. Oshadha, who collected 18 fours in his innings, played a faster inning than the other opening batsman, Nishan.
When the scoreboard of the Sri Lankan innings was recorded as 203 runs, Oshadha was run out by Liam Patterson’s ball and Nishan Madushka was unbeaten on 91 runs at the end of the day. Faced with 126 balls, Nishan’s innings were coloured by 13 fours and one six.
England batsmen managed to create a huge scoreboard of 467 runs against the Sri Lanka A team, who were bowled out for 136 runs in the first innings. Yesterday, the England Lions players, who had collected 249 runs for the loss of 3 wickets at the end of the match, managed to collect another 218 runs for the remaining 7 wickets yesterday. Tom Haines managed to score a century yesterday for the England Lions team.
Matthew Fisher, who took five wickets for 34 runs in Sri Lanka’s innings, also threatened Sri Lanka with the bat and scored 53 runs in 46 balls. While bowling for the Sri Lankan team, Lasith Embuldeniya and Amshi de Silva took 3 wickets each and Lakshitha Manasinghe took two wickets. Embuldeniya had given 158 runs to take his 3 wickets and the English Lions had executed only overs of Dunith Wellalage throughout the eighty-eight overs innings. (Divaina)
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