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Pathetic Lanka Fail to Send Off Sanath on High The Island, Thursday 6th April, 2006 Pathetic Lanka fail to send off Sanath on high Rex Clementine reporting from Kandy Then a 114-run stand between Farhat Former captain Sanath Jayasuriya’s and Younis Khan sealed the game and the Test career ended in disappointment series for the tourists as both batsmen after Pakistan comprehensively beat the scored fifties. Farhat made 65, his sev- hosts by eight wickets inside three days enth Test fifty with 11 fours while Younis at the Asgiriya International Cricket made an unbeaten 73, his 14th half-centu- Stadium yesterday. ry with 12 fours and Pakistan got home Mahela Jayawardene, the stand in cap- with eight wickets to spare. tain of the Sri Lankan side, had indicated Mohammad Asif who made all the dif- that the whole team wanted to give the ference in the Test by claiming 11 wickets veteran batsman a grand send off and in the Test and 17 in the series was named things couldn’t have gone better when both Man of the Match and Man of the they gained a vital 109 run first innings Series. lead thanks to Muttiah Muralitharan’s Sri Lanka’s hopes of recording their 51st five-wicket haul. first home Test win against Pakistan in But 23-year-old fast bowler 20 years didn’t materialize as Sanath Mohammad Asif, playing only his fifth Jayasuriya brought to an end his glitter- Test, turned the game upside down on ing Test career on a sad note. Tuesday evening when he claimed five for 27 in a 12 over non stop spell that SCOREBOARD sealed the fate for the Sri Lankans. Yesterday Sri Lanka resumed from 73 Sri Lanka 1st innings: 279 (K. Sangakkara 79, T. for eight but failed to add anything to the Samaraweera 65, M. Bandara 43, Mohammad Asif 6- total as Abdul Razzaq picked up the wick- 44, Danish Kaneria 4-53) et of Muttiah Muralitharan in the first Pakistan 1st innings: 170 (Younis Khan 35, M. ball of the morning when the tail-ender Muralitharan 5-39) skied one to Umar Gul at mid-on. Sanath Sri Lanka 2nd innings (overnight 73-8): Jayasuriya who had earlier split his U. Tharanga b Asif 12 thumb didn’t come to bat after doctors K. Sangakkara b Asif 16 advised him not to take a chance with the M. Jayawardene b Razzaq 15 injury that had required three stitches. T. Samaraweera b Asif 4 Sri Lanka’s 73 was their second lowest T. Dilshan c Akmal b Asif 11 total in Test cricket after their 71 also F. Maharoof lbw b Asif 1 against the Pakistanis at the same venue M. Bandara c Akmal b Razzaq 4 12 years ago. The Sri Lankans had done N. Kulasekara c Gul b Razzaq 6 so well in the series and had remained on L. Malinga not out 0 top for most of the game, but all what it M. Muralitharan c Gul b Razzaq 0 required for the series to go in Pakistan’s S. Jayasuriya absent injured favour was just one hour’s play on day Extras: (lb3, w1) 4 two where Asif bowled an inspiring spell Total 73 and a few bad shots by the batsmen to Fall of wickets: 1-22, 2-40, 3-46, 4-56, 5-57, 6-65, 7- decide the series. 72, 8-73, 9-73 With only a lead of 183 the Sri Lankans Bowling: Asif 12-6-27-5, Anjum 3-1-8-0, Gul 3-0-15-0, were heavily depending on ace spinner Razzaq 6.5-1-20-4 Muttiah Muralitharan to put them on the Overs: 24.5 top but the off-spinner failed to trouble Pakistan 2nd innings (target 183): the batsmen. Surprisingly the wicket did- Imran Farhat c Jayawardena b Kulasekara 65 n’t cause any problems for the batsmen Kamran Akmal c Sangakkara b Malinga 24 too and Muralitharan bowled 13 overs Younis Khan not out 73 without taking a wicket. Mohammad Yousuf not out 14 Pakistan got off to a quick start when Extras: (lb3, nb4) 7 Imran Farhat and Kamran Akmal added Total (for two wickets) 183 38 runs for the first wicket in 47 balls Fall of wickets: 1-38, 2-152 before Lasith Malinga struck when Bowling: Maharoof 10-0-52-0, Kulasekara 12-3-34-1, Kumar Sangakkara took a splendid div- Malinga 6.2-0-33-1, Muralitharan 13-3-46-0, Bandara ing catch to get rid of makeshift opener 2-0-15-0 Akmal. Overs: 43.2 ‘It was totally disappointing’ - Jayasuriya Sanath Jayasuriya: opportunity to the quicks to get something out of it. It On his final game- was not that Malinga [Bandara] did not have anything, It was totally disappointing for me. I got injured and but Murali was bowling well and he is obviously our we lost the match. It was not the best way to end my main match-winner. Thus I went for Murali at one end Test career. Naturally, I was looking for a good finish and tried to do something with the quicks at the other. but unfortunately we were unable to do that. I tried my On whether complacency was responsible for Sri best to bat and I took an injection in the morning. But Lanka’s collapse- the doctor did not want me to go out. After we got them out and secured a 109-run lead Mahela Jayawardene: we had a chat in the dressing room and said `Let’s His summing up of the match- push the advantage and make sure we don’t give them It was not a bad wicket but they bowled really well anything’. There was no complacency, as we knew yesterday. There was something for the quick bowlers after the first Test that we had to put the runs on the here in the morning but we could not get those early board against these guys and bat for three sessions. breakthroughs. Defending just 180 we needed to get But we lost early wickets and they bowled really three or four early wickets to get the momentum going. well. I can’t pinpoint it and say, `This was lacking and We were confident and the bowlers beat the bat a few that was lacking’. The effort was there but it was an times early, but they started batting well and got away unfortunate two hours. The first four or so wickets were from us. got by good balls and after that the guys were trying to On Mohammad Asif- get some runs and turn around the momentum. For He bowled really well here and at the SSC. He example, Dilshan is a natural strokeplayer and that is bowled straight and was putting the vast majority of his what he did in the first Test to rescue us. He was trying deliveries in the right areas. You can’t take anything to do the same here. You can’t pinpoint and say it was away from him - he just bowled really well. This was the bad technique. first time I have seen him - he has the pace and the On Sanath’s sad farewell- movement. His wrist seems to be right behind the ball Unfortunately, Sanath was not there for us yester- and he gives nothing away, putting a lot of the pressure day. It was very sad. He had a brilliant career and has on the batters. been a great ambassador for Sri Lanka’s cricket. On his reluctance to use Malinga Bandara- Everyone wanted to give him a good farewell and it After seeing the wicket yesterday and how it was was a very disappointing way to say goodbye to behaving my gut feeling was that I had to give an Sanath in Test cricket. Published by Upali Newspapers Ltd, 223, Bloemendhal Road, Colombo 13. and Printed at 195/187, High Level Road, Homagama on Thursday 6th April, 2006.
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