Sri Lanka have announced their Test squad for the two-match Test series against South Africa away from home. The Dhananjaya de Silva-led side will miss Ramesh Mendis' services as he has been dropped from the team despite picking six wickets in the only Test he played this year.
Prabath Jayasuriya picked six wickets to bowl out New Zealand to 88 and gave Sri Lanka a defining 514-run lead in the first innings of the second Test match in Galle on Saturday. Captain Dhananjaya de Silva picked five good catches to contribute to Sri Lanka's impressive bowling performance.
Sri Lanka defeated New Zealand in the first Test match of the two-match series by 63 runs in Galle. They needed only two wickets on the final day and had 68 runs to defend. But it took only 3.4 overs for them to wrap things up on the fifth day.
Sri Lanka had not beaten England in a Test match since 2014. This is only Sri Lanka's fourth Test win on English soil and their first since June 2014 at Headingley in Leeds.
Dhananjaya de Silva is leading Sri Lanka in the ongoing World Test Championship (WTC) cycle. He was handed over the reins in the red-ball format after Dimuth Karunaratne stepped down as captain.
Sri Lanka have named their playing XI for the first Test against England starting Wednesday, August 21. It is a weakened pace attack with most of the seniors nursing their respective injuries and hence Milan Rathnayake will be making his debut. Sri Lanka would hope for a few crucial WTC points.
Sri Lankan pacers dominated the second Test match at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram as they accounted for 33 of the 40 Bangladesh wickets to fall. The Sri Lankan spinners only got seven wickets.
Dimuth Karunaratne led Sri Lanka in 30 Test matches during his stint. The island nation won 12 and lost the same number of games under his leadership. Karunaratne had a 40% win record in red-ball and stands fifth on the list of players to have captained Sri Lanka the most number of times in Tests.
Sri Lanka started the day three runs behind the West Indies and finished an imposing 279 ahead after a last-gasp stand by century-maker Dhananjaya de Silva and No. 10 batsman Lasith Embuldeniya in the second Test on Thursday.
Sri Lanka maybe already out of the WC but the team's off-spinner believes they can end their campaign on a high with an upset win over India.
After Cummins dismissed Dimuth Karunaratne on the last ball of the second day, he took wickets in his first two overs Saturday.
Sri Lanka all-rounder Dhananjaya de Silva has pulled out from the tour of West Indies after his father Ranjan de Silva was murdered.
Kusal Mendis (196) missed his maiden double ton by just four runs as Sri Lanka ended the day 3 just nine runs behind Bangladesh's first innings total of 513.
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