Sri Lanka V. Kiwis: 1st test

[Twizzle]

Score at tea, day 2

Sri Lanka 1st innings R M B 4s 6s SR
NT Paranavitana c †McCullum b Martin 0 2 3 0 0 0.00
TM Dilshan b O'Brien 92 108 72 12 1 127.77
KC Sangakkara* c Flynn b Martin 8 12 9 2 0 88.88
DPMD Jayawardene c Taylor b O'Brien 114 297 227 15 0 50.22
TT Samaraweera c Patel b Vettori 159 346 277 24 1 57.40
AD Mathews c †McCullum b Vettori 39 89 60 4 1 65.00
HAPW Jayawardene† c Flynn b Vettori 7 16 15 1 0 46.66
KMDN Kulasekara c †McCullum b Martin 18 39 34 2 1 52.94
T Thushara c O'Brien b Vettori 0 12 6 0 0 0.00
M Muralitharan c †McCullum b Martin 8 3 5 0 1 160.00
BAW Mendis not out 0 3 0 0 0 -
Extras (b 1, lb 2, w 2, nb 2) 7

Total (all out; 117.4 overs; 468 mins) 452 (3.84 runs per over)
Fall of wickets1-0 (Paranavitana, 0.3 ov), 2-16 (Sangakkara, 2.6 ov), 3-134 (Dilshan, 27.1 ov), 4-300 (DPMD Jayawardene, 79.6 ov), 5-386 (Mathews, 102.1 ov), 6-408 (HAPW Jayawardene, 106.4 ov), 7-444 (Samaraweera, 115.4 ov), 8-444 (Kulasekara, 116.1 ov), 9-452 (Muralitharan, 116.6 ov), 10-452 (Thushara, 117.4 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ
CS Martin 23 5 77 4 3.34
IE O'Brien 21 1 125 2 5.95 (2nb, 1w)
JDP Oram 7 1 25 0 3.57
DL Vettori 37.4 9 78 4 2.07
JS Patel 24 3 120 0 5.00
JD Ryder 5 1 24 0 4.80 (1w)

 

[edabomb]

Pretty good comeback for NZ yesterday. Hopefully they approach today quite defensively.

Patel will struggle to retain his spot, could be Tuffey's comeback next test.

 

[ozbash]

the greatest bowler in the world has us pretty much pinned down

 

[Beavers Headgear]

Currently 290-8

Customary collapse combined with a couple of Darryl Harper specials as always

And to make things better that virus is still going around the NZ Camp, McCullum and Ryder hard hit today, so the Lankans have agreed that Rhys Young, the back up wicketkeeper on tour, is allowed to take the gloves

 

[African Monkey]

A pretty poor effort imo. McIntosh played his best innings for us before being rorted by Harper.

It's about time McCullum took some responsibility as well. He needed to stand up with us under pressure and failed.....again.

 

[hineyrulz]

Harper is a crap umpire, but besides Taufel everyone sucks massive balls.

 

[IanG]

Kiwis have it all ahead of them.
O'Brien and Patel were rather expensive

 

[Iafeta]

Harper's horrific. He makes Brent Bowden look good. I remember the first test of a Kiwis-Australian summer a few years ago where Cairns struck Langer from over the wicket full on middle stump with it swinging slightly back down the line to be taking middle halfway up, Harper called not up looking non plussed and Langer and Hayden smashed them everywhere from there. Tauffel is the best umpire going around by a million miles.

 

[African Monkey]

So how many available batsmen do we have ??? We'll probably see Martin coming in at 6 at this rate :roll:

 

[Manu Vatuvei]

The weather is doing its best to save us. Still, expect us to lose if Sri Lanka get more than 60 overs at us tomorrow.

 

[edabomb]

The weather is doing its best to save us. Still, expect us to lose if Sri Lanka get more than 60 overs at us tomorrow.

Agreed, except I'd say 40 overs if Ryder can't bat. The most frustrating thing about our test team is we really don't show any signs of improving.

 

[African Monkey]

Agreed, except I'd say 40 overs if Ryder can't bat. The most frustrating thing about our test team is we really don't show any signs of improving.

Yeah that's right. Our last test win (apart from Bangladesh) was March last year.

 

[Panther_Daz]

Highlights from Day 4 on Fox now.

I can watch Sangakkara's cover drive all day.

 

[edabomb]

These collapses we have these days are worse than the heady early to mid 90s days.

 

[TheParraboy]

oops