Windies tailing 253 to square up serial
(CNN) The West Indies are in pole place to tear down the serial against Sri Lanka, requiring 253 runs to gain the second and final match in Trinidad with two hours still to act.
Thilan Samaraweera directed Sri Lanka extinct of problem after the holidaymakers slouched to 99-6.
Sri Lanka gained in the Caribbean Sea for the first time in the opening Test, prevailing by 121 runs in Operative Republic of Guyana, but could have already mislaid this match if it were not for a brilliant 125 by Thilan Samaraweera on four hour period three.
The holidaymakers had got slouched to 99-6 in their second innings after brushing off the Occident Indies for 294 in the day’s opening session — that yielded the legions a lead of 16 runs.
Samaraweera rolled up his sixth Test 100 as he place on 138 with all-debauchee Chaminda Vaas, who got an unyielding 45.
The 31-twelvemonth-older Samaraweera got at the plication with his face already bass in trouble at 32-3 after Malinda Warnapura was picked up at third slip for a s egg off Jerome Taylor — who then scarperred extinct Michael Vandort for one.
Skipper Mahela Jayawardene and his deputy sheriff Kumar Sangakkara were both discharged in the infinite of seven balls.
Jayawardene haled a bringing from Fidel Jonathan Edwards onto his stumps to be extinct for 12, spell Sangakkara stood an uprising musket ball from Daren Colin Powell to Marlon Samuel at gully for 14.
Tillakeratne Dilshan got a lustful 25 off 19 balls earlier being bowled by Deems Taylor earlier lunch, and Chamara Sylva fella to the like profligate derby after the time interval when he was picked up at gully by Samuel for an unyielding 13.
Samaraweera, who was golden to be yielded not extinct when Dwayne Bravo appeared to have pinned down him ramification earlier wicket shortly after going across 50, occupied Sri Lanka to 151-6 at afternoon tea as he and Vaas cut into in.
He went across three figures when he chopped Jonathan Edwards to the third man bound for the 15th of his 18 bounds in an innings that endured nigh five hour, veneer 199 balls.
Goed away-hander Vaas went away for 45 off 114 bringings when tested to motor a total-duration bringing from skipper Chris Gayle and was picked up slow.
The seventh-wicket pair held held the Occident Indies for 41.3 overs, using up the mark to 237-7 for a lead of 221.
Bravo held Thilan Thushara picked up slow for 10 with an extra 15 runs supplied to the total, then Samaraweera was ninth man extinct on 268 when third man Samuel laid claim his second run-extinct of the innings as the batter came up back for a second.
Joseph Deems Taylor cloaked up the innings with the first musket ball of the next all over, having Muttiah Muralitharan picked up at tenacious branch by Colin Powell to complete with figures of 4-52 from 15.1 overs.
Off-spinster Muralitharan held earlier realized his 63rd five-wicket haul in Tests as the West Indies supplied only 26 more runs to their 268-7.
Muralitharan 5-79 and veteran seamer Vaas caught 2-76 as the Windies endured merely 50 proceedings into the opening session.
Meanwhile, India’s pickers have remembered pace bowler hat Munaf Patel for the third Test against South Africa.
Patel supplants Rudra Pratap Singh, who neglected to get an belief in the opening two Tests.
Bharat must win the final match in Kanpur, that starts on Friday, to square up the serial after being latherred by an innings and 90 runs in the second Test.
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