SPORT-LD IND2LST

As Jayawardene missed out on getting his double hundred,
the Lankans asked India to bat.
He was caught by debutant Suresh Raina off Harbhajan
Singh while pushing hard to get his double hundred.
Jayawardene and Samaraweera raised a 176-run stand for
the fourth wicket to add to India's misery and frustration.
Earlier, Sehwag removed Sangakkara just after the lunch,
but not before the Sri Lankan captain registered his seventh
double century.
Sangakkara made 219 before Rahul Dravid took a sharp
catch at slip off Sehwag to give India a rare moment of joy.
After Sangakkara's departure, new man in Samaraweera
quickly got into the groove as he turned away a Pragyan Ojha
delivery between slip and backward point for his first
boundary. He then hit a Harbhajan Singh's short and wide
delivery to the fence.
On the other hand, Jayawardene looked composed and
negotiated the Indian bowlers with ease.
Bruised and battered by the Lankan batters, the Indians
committed numerous errors in the field as Jayawardene and
Samarweera stepped up the accelerator to enable their captain
declare after a safe first innings total.
Jayawardene treated Indian bowlers with disdain as he
dispatched Abhimanyu Mithun over the long-on boundary.
The fact that 400 runs for Sri Lanka came in a record 435
minutes and 651 balls testified to a placid pitch and some
lackluster bowling from the Indians.
It was an ominous start to the proceedings for India as
Sangakkara hammered two consecutive boundaries of Mithun in
the first over of the second day.
The 50-run partnership with his deputy Jayawardene came
off 117 balls.
Making their intentions clear to pile up as much as
possible to make India bat again and prise out a result, the
Sri Lankan batsmen continued their onslaught against the
insipid Indian bowling. PTI TVS
KAB


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