Dinesh Chandimal racked up a half-century to aid Sri Lanka get to 102-1 at lunch on the opening day of the 2nd Test versus New Zealand in Galle on Thursday.
Chandimal was unbeaten on 60 after involving the fold when Pathum Nissanka was captured behind for one from the last round of New Zealand captain Tim Southee’s initially over.
Dimuth Karunaratne was unbeaten on 40 at the various other end in a 100-run 2nd arch collaboration with Chandimal.
Both guys were batting with self-confidence days after their match-defining 147-run stand in the opening Test, dipped into the very same place.
Chandimal was hostile from the beginning, capitalising on loosened distributions and striking 9 limits as New Zealand missed out on 2 opportunities to damage the collaboration.
The left-handed opener was gone down on 5 by Darryl Mitchell in the 4th over, while wicketkeeper Tom Blundell missed out on a possibility to stump Karunaratne on 17 off the spin of Ajaz Patel.
Sri Lanka won the opening suit of both-Test collection by 63 runs. New Zealand have actually not won any one of their 5 previous Tests at Galle.
New Zealand gamers put on black armbands to honour the late Ian Taylor, that was the supervisor of the Black Caps from 1980 to 1990.
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