SL LD LUNCH 2 LAST

Needing 144 more runs to make the visitors bat again
after having conceded a huge first innings lead of 334 runs,
the home team were 78 runs behind at the break on a fifth-day
wicket holding no demons.

Mishra, sent in to protect the main batsmen late last
evening at the fall of Rahul Dravid's wicket, stuck to his
task for over 45 minutes before he was dismissed by Sri Lanka
all-rounder Angelo Mathews, caught brilliantly at leg gully by
Tillakaratne Dilshan.
The leg break bowler, who was very expensive and conceded
over 200 runs for a lone wicket, did his task of denying Sri
Lanka an early breakthrough in the morning.
He faced 51 balls in making 24, falling to the 26th
delivery he received today when Dilshan dived to his right to
take the catch off Mathews. Mishra also helped Gambhir take
the score from 169 to 209 by adding 40 runs for the third
wicket.
Tendulkar came in and started stroking the ball sweetly
as he cover-drove the accurate and miserly Mathews for a four
and then hit danger man Muthiah Muralitharan for successive
fours in one over.
Gambhir also opened up and raced to his hundred by
hitting left arm spinner Rengana Herath for two fours before
he glanced Mathews to the rope. It is his first hundred
against the visitors and came after a stay of 287 minutes.
By lunch, the fourth wicket duo had added 47 runs without
being separated and India put on 66 runs in 29 overs in the
pre-lunch period. PTI SSR
MYR


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