Sri Lanka lose six wickets at Lunch in second Pakistan Test
Sri Lanka lose six wickets at Lunch in second Pakistan Test.
KARACHI (Dunya News) – Pakistan picked up three more Sri Lankan wickets in first session on day two of the second Test match as the visitors were 170-6 at lunch.
Pakistan’s Shaheen Shah and Mohammad Abbas dismissed three batsmen apiece. Sri Lanka’s Dinesh Chandimal is 42 not out.
The Islanders had started the day on 64-3 in reply to Pakistan’s first innings total of 191. The match is being played at the National Stadium Karachi.
Pakistan needed early wickets and fast bowlers Shaheen Shah Afridi and Mohammad Abbas stepped up to rattle Sri Lanka.
Abbas had nightwatchman Lasith Embuldeniya caught in the slip for 13 before lanky left-armer Afridi had Angelo Mathews caught behind for 13.
Sri Lanka were hobbling at 80-5 before Chandimal and first Test centurion Dhananjaya de Silva (32) added 67 runs for the sixth wicket to steady their team.
Afridi broke the stand by luring De Silva into hooking straight into the hands of deep square-leg fielder Abbas who held a running catch.
The Test series -- part of the ongoing World Test championship -- is the first in Pakistan since a militant attack on the Sri Lankan team bus in 2009 suspended international cricket in the country.
The rain-ravaged first Test in Rawalpindi was drawn.
With inputs from AFP
