PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – West Indies, replying to Sri Lanka’s 278, reached 268 for seven at the close of the second day of the second Digicel Test at the Queen’s Park Oval on Friday.
SCORES:
Sri Lanka 278 (Chamara Silva 76, Tillakeratne Dilshan 62, Malinda Warnapura 35, Michael Vandort 30, Mahela Jayawardene 26; Fidel Edwards 4-84, Daren Powell 2-59, Jerome Taylor 2-74).
West Indies 268-7 (Ramnaresh Sarwan 57, Devon Smith 47, Sewnarine Chattergoon 46, Chris Gayle 45; Muttiah Muralitharan 3-64, Thilan Thushara 2-72).
| West Indies v Sri Lanka | |||||
| Queen’s Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad | |||||
| 3-7th April, 2008 (5-day match) | |||||
| Toss: West Indies | |||||
| Umpires: Billy Bowden, Simon Taufel | |||||
| TV Umpire: Goaland Greaves | |||||
| Match Result: | |||||
| Man of the Match: | |||||
| Sri Lanka 1st innings | |||||
| M. Vandort | c +Ramdin | b Edwards | 30 | ||
| M. Warnapura | c Chattergoon | b Edwards | 35 | ||
| +K. Sangakkara | c +Ramdin | b Edwards | 10 | ||
| *M. Jayawardene | b Taylor | 26 | |||
| T. Samaraweera | c Gayle | b Taylor | 6 | ||
| T. Dilshan | c +Ramdin | b Edwards | 62 | ||
| L. Silva | c Powell | b Bravo | 76 | ||
| C. Vaas | c +Ramdin | b Powell | 1 | ||
| T. Thushara | run out (Sarwan) | 1 | |||
| M. Muralitharan | c Bravo | b Powell | 8 | ||
| I. Amerasinghe | not out | 0 | |||
| Extras | (lb 8, w 5, nb 10) | 23 | |||
| Total | (all out; 64.5 overs) | 278 | |||
| Fall of wickets: 1-62 (Warnapura), 2-72 (Sangakkara), 3-93 (Vandort), 4-112 (Samaraweera), 5-117 (Jayawardene), 6-222 (Dilshan), 7-224 (Vaas), 8-240 (Mirando), 9-255 (Muralitharan), 10-278 (Silva) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | |
| D. Powell | 17 | 7 | 59 | 2 | (1w) |
| J. Taylor | 17.2 | 7 | 74 | 2 | (2nb) |
| F. Edwards | 18 | 4 | 84 | 4 | (3nb, 3 w) |
| C. Gayle | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| D. Bravo | 10.3 | 2 | 53 | 1 | (1nb, 1w) |
| West Indies 1st innings | |||||
| *C. Gayle | c Vandort | b Thushara | 45 | ||
| S. Chattergoon | b Vaas | 46 | |||
| R. Sarwan | c Warnapura | b Muralitharan | 57 | ||
| M. Samuels | lbw | b Muralitharan | 3 | ||
| S. Chanderpaul | lbw | b Thushara | 18 | ||
| D. Smith | b Muralitharan | 47 | |||
| D. Bravo | lbw | b Amerasinghe | 26 | ||
| +D. Ramdin | not out | 5 | |||
| J. Taylor | not out | 1 | |||
| Extras | (lb 3, w 2, nb 15) | 20 | |||
| Total | (7 wickets; 63.5 overs) | 268 | |||
| D. Powell, F. Edwards | |||||
| Fall of wickets: 1-58 (Gayle), 2-137 (Chattergoon), 3-141 (Samuels), 4-177 (Sarwan), 5-199 (Chanderpaul). 6-246 (Bravo), 7-266 (Smith) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | |
| Vaas | 16.5 | 0 | 67 | 1 | (8nb) |
| Amerasinghe | 12 | 1 | 62 | 1 | |
| Thushara | 12 | 0 | 72 | 2 | (5nb, 1w) |
| Muralitharan | 23 | 3 | 64 | 3 | |
