Sri Lanka Fight Back

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Sun, Aug 06, 2017, 12:32 PM

Sri Lanka Fight Back

Colombo, August 06: Sri Lanka has fight backing in their Second Test against India here in Colombo on the 4th day.

After losing the two wickets on Sunday (Dimuth Karunaratne 136*) and Angelo Mathews (28 batting) kept the hosts on track

After Karunaratne and Pushpakumara started the proceedings on Sunday, India picked up two early wickets. While Ravichandran Ashwin claimed Pushpakumara's wicket (16), Ravindra Jadeja dismissed Dinesh Chandimal for 2.

However, Angelo Mathews and Karunaratne stuck it out for the hosts to be 302/4 at lunch, trailing the visitors only by 137 runs.

On Saturday, At the end of the day's play, the hosts trailed India by 230 runs with eight wickets in hand.

Sri Lanka was bowled out for a paltry 183 in their first innings and made to follow-on.