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Perera takes six as Sri Lanka seal series with ease
GALLE: Sri Lanka’s cricket legends hailed the country’s series win as historic after they comprehensively beat top-ranked Australia in the second Test.
GALLE: Sri Lanka’s cricket legends hailed the country’s series win as historic after they comprehensively beat top-ranked Australia in the second Test.
Off-spinner Dilruwan Perera bagged six wickets to bundle out Australia for 183 and register a 229-run triumph after lunch on the third day to help Sri Lanka take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.
Perera’s efforts came after veteran spinner Rangana Herath bagged his maiden Test hat-trick in the first innings to dismiss Australia for a record low of 106.
The triumph comes as relief to a side which had returned from a disastrous tour of England where they failed to win any of their nine matches.
BRIEF SCORES
Sri Lanka 281 & 237 beat Australia 106 & 183 (D Warner 41, D Perera 6-70)
ENGLAND BATTLE HARD
BIRMINGHAM: Pakistan’s Yasir Shah took the key wicket of Joe Root as England found runs hard to come by on the fourth day of the third Test.
At tea, England were 262 for four in their second innings — a lead of 159 runs — after losing both Root (62) and James Vince (42).
