The second day’s play in the Galle Test was stopped due to rain and by the end of the day Pakistan’s score was 221 for the loss of 5 wickets.
Half the team was out, however Saud Shakeel and Agha Salman came in and took over the batting and scored half-centuries to bring the green shirts back into the game.
Sri Lanka added 70 runs to the score as play began today. Sri Lanka team was bowled out for 312 runs in the first innings. Dhananjaya de Silva played a brilliant innings.
He scored 122 runs with the help of 12 fours and 3 sixes. On behalf of Pakistan, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah and Abrar Ahmed took three wickets each while Agha Salman took one wicket. Pakistan had a disappointing start to the innings.
Imam-ul-Haq scored one, Abdullah Shafiq scored 19, captain Babar Azam scored 13 and Sarfaraz Ahmed scored only 17 runs. Only Shaun Masood managed to score a slightly better score of 39 runs Later, Saud Shakeel and Agha Salman showed good batting.
Both are at the crease and play has been stopped due to rain. Sri Lanka scored 226 runs for the loss of 5 wickets by the lunch break in the Galle Test match against Pakistan.
In the first Test of the series being played in Galle, Sri Lanka The captain won the toss and decided to bat first, but opener Nishan Madhishka was out for 4 runs for 6, captain Dimuth Karunaratne 29, Kaushal Mendes 12 and Dinesh Chandimal returned to the pavilion after scoring 1 run.
Former captain Angelo Mathews and Dhananjaya de Silva formed a partnership of 131 runs and took the team out of trouble, but Mathews scored 64 runs and fell prey to Abrar Ahmed. Sri Lanka scored a total of 242 runs for the loss of 5 wickets on the first day while the game was also stopped due to rain.
The first three wickets for Pakistan were taken by Shaheen Shah Afridi, who returned to Test cricket after a year While Naseem Shah and Abrar Ahmed dismissed one player each.
The second match of the two-match Test series will start in Colombo from July 24. Captain Babar Azam along with Abdullah Shafiq, Imamul Haq, Shan Masood, Saud Shakeel, Sarfraz Ahmed (wicketkeeper), Salman Ali Agha, Nouman Ali, Abrar Ahmed, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Naseem Shah are included. This test played in Galle is the first test of Pakistan team in World Test Championship 2023.25.
