SL vs WI: Looks interesting

Interesting. Yes, the second test between West Indies and Sri Lanka has reached the interesting corner after completion of second day that saw fall of 15 wickets at Kingston, Jamaica.

After Fidel Edwards' bowling, compared to that of Jeff Thomspn, wrecked Lankan innings and restricted them to 208, Prabath Nissanka took five wickets to wreck West Indies innings. And, if the spin wizard Muttial Muralitharan added three more wickets to his name, you can be sure the hosts suffered.

Sri Lanka took the lead of 17 runs in the first innings as the hosts went down for only 191 runs playing 52.1 overs. Chris Gayle, Ramnaresh Sarwan scored 31 runs each while Verbert Drakes hit 30 runs late in the innings, otherwise all other failed, including Brian Lara.

This time Murali was the winner of the duel as he found Lara leg before for 10 runs, his 50th wicket against West Indies, before taking wickets of Ridley Jacobs and Drakes. Chaminda Vaas got rid of Sarwan while Dharmasena, brought in for Thilan Sameeraweera, sent Taylor back. All other fell to Nissanka.

Sri Lanka, on their second innings, has put 129 runs taking the overall lead of 146 runs and losing five wickets.

Marvan Atapattu put 28 before he was out caught behind off Taylor's bowling while Jayasuriya fell early scoring just 13 runs. He found himslef infront of wickets while Corey Collymore's ball hit his pad.

Collymore also take wicket for Kumar Sangakkara (12) while Tayler bowled out Kaluwithara (23) while the dubutant Edwards got rid of Jayawardena (32). Jacobs took three catches.

Tilakratne (2) and Dharmasena (9) were playing while the day ended.

Posted by Ujjwol