Dinesh Chandimal racked up a half-century to help Sri Lanka get to 102-1 at lunch on the opening day of the 2nd Test versus New Zealand in Galle on Thursday.
Chandimal was unbeaten on 60 after involving the fold when Pathum Nissanka was captured behind for one from the final spherical of New Zealand captain Tim Southee’s initially over.
Dimuth Karunaratne was unbeaten on 40 on the varied different finish in a 100-run 2nd arch collaboration with Chandimal.
Both guys had been batting with self-confidence days after their match-defining 147-run stand within the opening Test, dipped into the exact same place.
Chandimal was hostile from the start, capitalising on loosened distributions and putting 9 limits as New Zealand missed out on 2 alternatives to wreck the collaboration.
The left-handed opener was gone down on 5 by Darryl Mitchell within the 4th over, whereas wicketkeeper Tom Blundell missed out on a risk to stump Karunaratne on 17 off the spin of Ajaz Patel.
Sri Lanka gained the opening swimsuit of both-Test assortment by 63 runs. New Zealand have really not gained any one in every of their 5 earlier Tests at Galle.
New Zealand players placed on black armbands to honour the late Ian Taylor, that was the supervisor of the Black Caps from 1980 to 1990.
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