PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Sri Lanka, trailing by 16, were dismissed for 268 at the close on the third day of the second Digicel Test against West Indies at the Queen’s Park Oval on Saturday. West Indies need 253 to win with two days remaining.
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) and 268 (Thilan Samaraweera 125, Chaminda Vaas 45, Tillakeratne Dilshan 25; Jerome Taylor 4-52).
West Indies 294 (Ramnaresh Sarwan 57, Devon Smith 47, Sewnarine Chattergoon 46, Chris Gayle 45; Muttiah Muralitharan 5-79, Thilan Thushara 2-72, Chaminda Vaas 2-76).
| 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 (Thushara), 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 | c Jayawardene | b Muralitharan | 13 | ||
| J. Taylor | lbw | b Vaas | 13 | ||
| D. Powell | lbw | b Muralitharan | 3 | ||
| F. Edwards | not out | 1 | |||
| Extras | (lb 5, w 2, nb 15) | 22 | |||
| Total | (all out; 76.2 overs) | 294 | |||
| Fall of wickets: 1-58 (Gayle), 2-137 (Chattergoon), 3-141 (Samuels), 4-177 (Sarwan), 5-199 (Chanderpaul). 6-246 (Bravo), 7-266 (Smith), 8-289 (Taylor), 9-291 (Ramdin), 10-294 (Powell) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | |
| Vaas | 23 | 1 | 76 | 2 | (8nb) |
| Amerasinghe | 12 | 1 | 62 | 1 | |
| Thushara | 12 | 0 | 72 | 2 | (5nb, 1w) |
| Muralitharan | 29.2 | 4 | 79 | 5 | (2nb) |
| Sri Lanka 2nd innings | |||||
| M. Vandort | run out (Taylor) | 1 | |||
| B. Warnapura | c Chattergoon | b Taylor | 0 | ||
| +K. Sangakkara | c Samuels | b Powell | 14 | ||
| *M. Jayawardene | b Edwards | 12 | |||
| T. Samaraweera | run out (Samuels) | 125 | |||
| T. Dilshan | b Taylor | 25 | |||
| L. Silva | c Samuels | b Taylor | 13 | ||
| C. Vaas | c +Ramdin | b Gayle | 45 | ||
| T. Thushara | c +Ramdin | b Bravo | 10 | ||
| M Muralitharan | c Powell | b Taylor | 4 | ||
| I. Amerasinghe | not out | 0 | |||
| Extras | (b 1, lb 10, w 6, nb 2) | 19 | |||
| Total | (all out; 75.1 overs) | 268 | |||
| Fall of wickets: 1-2 (Warnapura), 2-4 (Vandort), 3-32 (Jayawardene), 4-32 (Sangakkara), 5-73 (Dilshan), 6-99 (Silva), 7-237 (Vaas), 8-252 (Thushara), 9-268 (Samaraweera), 10-268 (Muralitharan) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | |
| D. Powell | 13 | 4 | 49 | 1 | (1w) |
| J. Taylor | 15.1 | 1 | 52 | 4 | (1w) |
| F. Edwards | 14 | 1 | 62 | 1 | (2nb) |
| D. Bravo | 19 | 5 | 64 | 1 | |
| C. Gayle | 14 | ||||
