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Galle Test: Perera shines in SL ancestral array win
- Updated: August 7, 2016
Galle (Sri Lanka): Off-spinner Dilruwan Perera bagged 6 wickets to conform Sri Lanka’s ancestral array win over Australia Saturday as a World No 1 side suffered a degrading 229-run detriment inside 3 days in a second Test in Galle.
Sri Lankan group members call to a spectators after their feat over Australia by 229 runs in a second Test during Galle on Saturday. PIC/AP,PTI
Australia, chasing a severe 413 for victory, were bundled out for 183 after lunch as Sri Lanka, who won their final array opposite a visitors in 1999, took an irrefutable 2-0 lead in a three-match rubber. Veteran spinner Rangana Herath set adult a win for a hosts with his lass Test hat-trick that helped boot Australia for a record low of 106 in their initial innings.
Sri Lankan off-spinner Dilruwan Perera acknowledges a throng after claiming 6 wickets opposite Australia on Saturday. PIC/AFP
Australia faltered in their second tour as good after Perera, who purebred his career-best total of 6-70, sent a visitors make-up in only 50.1 overs as a Sri Lankan players went into a celebratory huddle. “Not too many teams do this to a series one team. we suspicion we played some superb cricket via a initial and a second Test,” Lankan skipper Angelo Mathews said.
David Warner and skipper Steven Smith offering some insurgency with their 51-run fourth wicket partnership though both of them fell to Perera’s guile. Warner, who attempted to opposite conflict during his 31-ball 41, was trapped lbw off a straighter Perera smoothness that strike a batsman on a front pad. Smith (30), who used his feet good opposite a spinners during his 58-ball stay, was a subsequent to go as he gave divided a locate during back brief leg. Perera, who bagged 10 wickets in a match, afterwards bowled Adam Voges for 28 to register his fourth five-wicket transport in 11 Test matches. “What a opening from Dilruwan (Perera) after a still compare in Pallekele. We corroborated him,” pronounced Mathews of his bowling allrounder, who also top-scored a useful 64 in a second innings.
Brief scores
Sri Lanka 281 237 (D Perera 64, A Mathews 47; M Starc 6-50, N Lyon 2-80) kick Australia 106 183 (D Warner 41; D Perera 6-70, R Herath 2-74) by 229 runs