The monitor lizard made its means over the boundary rope and entered the enjoying space.© X (previously Twitter)
A monitor lizard entered the bottom throughout the Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan one-off Test match in Colombo on Saturday. The incident took place throughout Sri Lanka’s batting on Day 2 of the sport at Sinhalese Sports Club. In the forty eighth over, the reptile made its means over the boundary rope and entered the enjoying space. Dinesh Chandimal was set to face Afghanistan pacer Nijat Masood for the fourth supply of the over. As quickly because the monitor lizard’s exercise on the sting of the boundary got here to note, the umpire was fast to cease the play. The motion continued solely after the reptile was taken off the bottom.
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Talking in regards to the sport, Chandimal and Angelo Mathews placed on a file 232-run fourth-wicket partnership Saturday to go away Sri Lanka in agency management on day two of their one-off Test towards Afghanistan.
Sri Lanka had been main by 212 runs with 4 wickets in hand at stumps, with Mathews despatched again on the ultimate ball for 141 and Sadeera Samarawickrama (21) nonetheless on the crease. Chandimal (107) additionally notched up a century in a partnership that broke a file on the Sinhalese Sports Club that had stood for 32 years.
Arjuna Ranatunga and Asanka Gurusinha had placed on 230 runs for the fourth wicket there in what’s fondly remembered because the Shane Warne Test match, when the spin king helped Australia safe an exciting 16-run win in 1992.
Mathews and Chandimal got here collectively after three wickets had fallen within the morning session and Sri Lanka had been nonetheless 50 runs behind.
The two senior batsmen noticed off some correct bowling by the Afghan quick bowlers on a wicket that had flattened out to the detriment of spinners.
Afghanistan had been bowled out for 198 within the remaining session of Friday’s first day, after being put in to bat by the hosts.
(With AFP Inputs)
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