PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Sri Lanka, sent in by West Indies, reached 217 for five at the close of the opening day of the second Digicel Test at the Queen’s Park Oval on Thursday.
SCORES:
Sri Lanka 217-5 (Tillakeratne Dilshan 58 not out, Chamara Silva 37 not out, Malinda Warnapura 35, Michael Vandort 30, Mahela Jayawardene 26; Fidel Edwards 3-50, Jerome Taylor 2-63).
| 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 | not out | 58 | |||
| L. Silva | not out | 37 | |||
| Extras | (lb 8, w 3, nb 3) | 15 | |||
| Total | (5 wickets; 46.3 overs) | 217 | |||
| Did not bat: M. Muralitharan. T. Mirando, C. Vaas, I. Amerasinghe | |||||
| Fall of wickets: 1-62 (Warnapura), 2-72 (Sangakkara), 3-93 (Vandort), 4-112 (Samaraweera), 5-117 (Jayawardene) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | |
| D. Powell | 10 | 4 | 43 | 0 | (1w) |
| J. Taylor | 14 | 5 | 63 | 2 | (1nb) |
| F. Edwards | 12.3 | 2 | 50 | 3 | (2nb, 1 w) |
| C. Gayle | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| D. Bravo | 9 | 1 | 53 | 0 | (1nb, 1w) |
