THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2018 16 Spinners put England on top England’s spin trio leave Sri Lanka reeling as Foakes continues to impress

SCOREBOARD K. Mendis b Ali 14 • Moeen takes four D. de Silva c Stokes b Leach 19 wickets after Foakes England (overnight 321-8, B. Foakes 87, J. A. Mathews c Jennings b Ali 52 completes century Leach 14) D. Chandimal st Foakes b Rashid 33 R. Burns c Dickwella b Lakmal 9 N. Dickwella c Buttler b Ali 28 AFP | Galle, Sri Lanka K. Jennings b Perera 46 D. Perera c Buttler b Leach 21 M. Ali b Lakmal 0 A. Dananjaya c Foakes b Ali 0 J. Root b Herath 5 S. Lakmal c Anderson b Rashid 15 ngland spinners led by R. Herath 14 Moeen Ali helped dis - B. Stokes b Perera 7 J. Buttler c Dickwella b Perera 38 Extras (lb2) 2 Emiss Sri Lanka for 203 Total (all out, 68 overs) 203 and build on their advantage B. Foakes c De Silva b Lakmal 107 after wicketkeeper-batsman Ben S. Curran c Chandimal b De Silva 48 Fall of wickets: 1-4 (Karunaratne), 2-10 (Silva), Foakes’ debut ton in the first A. Rashid c De Silva b Perera 35 3-34 (Mendis), 4-40 (De Silva), 5-115 (Chandimal), Test yesterday. J. Leach c de Silva b Perera 15 6-136 (Mathews), 7-171 (Dickwella), 8-173 (Danan- The islanders conceded a 139- England’s Keaton Jennings dives to catch Sri Lanka’s Angelo Mathews off the jaya), 9-175 (Perera), 10-203 (Lakmal) run lead in response to England’s bowling of Moeen Ali as Ben Foakes prepares to celebrate J. Anderson not out 0 Extras (b1, lb1) 2 Bowling: Anderson 10-0-26-1, Curran 6-1-16-1, 342 after being bowled out in the Leach 18-2-41-2, Ali 21-4-66-4, Rashid 9-1-30-2, final session of play on day two an impact with his left-arm spin replaced injured Jonny Bairstow Total (all out, 97 overs) 342 on a turning Galle pitch notori- in just his second Test for Eng- converted his overnight 87 to 107 Fall of wickets: 1-10 (Burns), 2-10 (Ali), 3-72 (Root), Stokes 4-0-22-0 ous for its low scores. land. in the morning session to be - 4-98 (Jennings), 5-103 (Stokes), 6-164 (Buttler), Ali claimed four wickets and “Massive influence Moeen come only the fifth wicketkeep- 7-252 (Curran), 8-306 (Rashid), 9-330 (Leach), England was ably supported by fellow has been great to be around and er-batsman to score a hundred 10-342 (Foakes) R. Burns not out 11 spinners Jack Leach and Adil good banter when he’s around in in his first Test. K. Jennings not out 26 Rashid who took two each. the change room. - Mathews’ grit - Bowling: Lakmal 18-5-73-3, Perera 31-6-75-5, Dananjaya 20-2-96-1, Herath 25-4-78-1, De Silva Extras (lb1) 1 England were 38 for no loss at “We are enjoying it...Jimmy For Sri Lanka, Angelo Total (no loss, 12 overs) 38 stumps in their second innings, (Anderson) and (Sam) Curran Mathews top-scored with 52 3-0-18-0 stretching their lead to 177 runs. bowled really well at the top and put on a crucial 75-run stand To bat: M. Ali, J. Root, B. Stokes, J. Buttler, B. Debutant , on 11, and and took the pressure off us,” for the fifth wicket with skipper Sri Lanka Foakes, S. Curran, A. Rashid, J. Leach, J. Anderson Keaton Jennings, on 26, were Leach said of England’s bowling Dinesh Chandimal, who made D. Karunaratne c Foakes b Anderson 4 Bowling: Perera 5-0-12-0, Lakmal 3-0-14-0, Her- at close of play. attack. 33, to frustrate the opposition K. Silva lbw b Curran 1 ath 3-0-10-0, Dananjaya 1-0-1-0 “It’s great to be back out there But it was Foakes who stood bowlers. with the boys. A great day for us. out with his patient yet effective Rashid broke the key stand af- It was always nice for a spinner batting in England’s first essay to ter getting Chandimal He did not trouble the scorers final session. on his way to 21. He became the to get some purchase on a wicket give the team a challenging total on a classic leg-spinner but after the tea break as Ali got the Dilruwan Perera, who picked fastest Sri Lankan to claim a like this, I got into things quite after electing to bat first. Mathews went on to register dangerman trudging back to the up five wickets in the England double of 100 wickets and 1,000 early on,” said Leach, who made The 25-year-old Foakes, who his 30th Test 50. pavilion in the first over of the innings, crossed 1000 Test runs runs.

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