WI returned to the match with a main strike on the second morning

WI returned to the match on the second morning with the main strike, dismissing the Sri Lankan pair overnight within the first hour. Before striking late to pick up three wickets before lunch.

Karunaratne and de Silva start the day :-

Dimuth Karunaratne and Dhananjay de Silva started the day at 267 for 3. with a shot possible to double that score on the second day. But as he fielded a smaller batting line-up for the game.

WI can now dream of keeping the hosts an editable total in the first innings. First-tailed Suranga Lakmal faced 13 balls before lunch. The host team conceded only 74 runs in the season.

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Sri Lanka started the day on alert. With overnight century-scorer Dimuth Karunaratne hitting a young Jason Holder before offspinner Rahkim Cornwall also scored a tough opening spell.

De Silva started the morning at 56 :-

Dhananjaya de Silva, who started the morning on 56, seemed more relaxed. The Pairing but was out first, in cynical estimation. In Shannon Gabriel’s first over of the day. Dhananjay de Silva stood tall to defend but was a bit late on the shot. And the ball bounced near his feet and seemed to be heading towards the stumps.

De Silva looked back and swiped twice, attempting to swing the ball away from danger. The second of these swipes hit the crest of the leg-stump, and he was out hit-wicket, adding only five to his overnight score.

Meanwhile, Dimuth Karunaratne was working slowly back in the day but was undone by an advanced piece of wicketkeeping from Joshua da Silva.

Dimuth’s back footrests on the popping crease :-

The batsman was pulled forward by a floating ball from Roston Chase, which he attempted to bounce offside. he missed, and
De Silva hits a bail while Dimuth’s back footrests on the popping crease. He was dismissed for 147, adding 14 to his overnight score.

Dinesh Chandimal initially dueled against Gabriel’s short-of-a-length inducer, but took himself against the spinners, and was soon sweeping, cutting, and driving with a little more self-confidence.

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He made a 35-run stand with the more short-tempered Ramesh Mendis, who eventually fell behind when Jomel Warrican got the ball to bite outside the off-stump, leaving the batsman’s edge. He was dismissed after scoring 13 runs out of 49.

Chase, who took two wickets in the evening session on the first day, has the best figures ever for West Indies – taking 3 for 60 in 23 overs.