Sadeera Samarawickrama ends 7-year drought by scoring his maiden century, ruins this player’s career
The first match of the two Test series is being played between Sri Lanka and Ireland. This match is being played at Galle Cricket Stadium. Batting first after winning the toss, the hosts scored runs in the first innings itself.
Sadeera Samarawickrama scored a brilliant century –
In the first innings, opener and captain Dimuth Karunaratne scored a brilliant 179 runs. Apart from this, Kusal Mendis played an innings of 140 runs. At the same time, Dinesh Chandimal played an unbeaten inning of 102 runs. In the first innings, Sri Lanka declared by scoring 591 runs at the loss of 6 wickets.
Significantly, in this innings, wicketkeeper Sadeera Samarawickrama also scored a century. His century innings is very special because after the last seven years a Sri Lankan wicketkeeper has scored a century in Tests. Before him, Kusal Janith Perera had scored a century against Zimbabwe in Harare in 2016.
At the same time, problems have increased for Sri Lankan wicketkeeper Niroshan Dickwella due to Sadeera coming in form. Despite being a formidable batsman, Dickwella’s bat is calm.
Sadeera Samaravikrama created a unique record –
Sadeera Samarawickrama has done another amazing thing by scoring this century. In fact, he has also registered the record of scoring the most runs while batting at number 8 in the Test history of Sri Lankan cricket. Earlier in the year 2001, Thilan Samaraweera scored an unbeaten 103 and in the year 2014, Kithruvan Vithanage scored an unbeaten 103.