{"id":11085,"date":"2017-11-24T11:54:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T11:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=11085"},"modified":"2017-11-24T11:54:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T11:54:34","slug":"nagpur-test-sri-lanka-reach-1514-at-tea-on-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/nagpur-test-sri-lanka-reach-1514-at-tea-on-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagpur Test: Sri Lanka reach 151\/4 at tea on Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nagpur,<br \/>\nSri Lanka crawled back despite losing two more wickets to reach 151\/4 at tea on the opening day of the second cricket Test against India at the Vidarbha Cricket Association (VCA) Stadium here on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Skipper Dinesh Chandimal (47 not out) led the fightback for the tourists after pacer Ishant Sharma removed in-form opener Dimuth Karunaratne (51 from 147 balls; 4&#215;6) while left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja packed Angelo Mathews (10) cheaply.<\/p>\n<p>Resuming the second session at 47\/2, Sri Lanka lost Matthews immediately after an arm-ball from Jadeja beat the inside edge and struck him around the knees.<\/p>\n<p>The former skipper&#8217;s dismissal brought in Chandimal, who completed his 3,000 Test runs on his individual score of 24 when he drove Umesh Yadav for a boundary at mid-off.<\/p>\n<p>Chandimal continued to steady the ship, taking Sri Lanka past the three figure mark in the company of Karunaratne, who by now had neared his 14th Test half century.<\/p>\n<p>Karunaratne got to his 50, tapping Ishant for a single, before being trapped in front by the same bowler three overs later, to end the 62-run third wicket partnership.<\/p>\n<p>Karunaratne&#8217;s dismissal brought in the dashing wicket-keeper-batsman Niroshan Dickwella (18 not out), who till tea had added 29 runs with the skipper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nagpur, Sri Lanka crawled back despite losing two more wickets to reach 151\/4 at tea on the opening day of the second cricket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11087,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11085\/revisions\/11087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}