This great record was in the names of Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene, now the third name has been included in this list.
angelo matthews
SA vs SL: Sri Lankan team is playing the second test match on the South Africa tour. After losing the first Test match badly, the Sri Lankan team is trying to put pressure on South Africa in the second Test match being played at St. George’s Park. By the end of the second day’s play, Sri Lankan team was successful in scoring 242 runs for 3 wickets due to the brilliant innings of opener Pathum Nissanka. Nissanka was out after scoring 89 runs. Dimuth Karunaratne returned to the pavilion after scoring 20 runs and Dinesh Chandimal scored 44 runs. At the end of the day’s play, Angelo Mathews was unbeaten on 40 and Kamindu Mendis was unbeaten on 30.
Pathum Nissanka missed a century
In the first session of the second day, South Africa’s first innings was reduced to 358 runs. After this, Sri Lanka’s opening pair came out to bat. Pathum Nissanka and Dimuth Karunaratne made a partnership of 41 runs for the first wicket. Kagiso Rabada gave the first blow to Lanka in the form of Dimuth Karunaratne. After this, there was a brilliant partnership of 109 runs between Nissanka and Chandimal which was broken by Dan Pietersen. Chandimal remained 6 runs away from his half-century. Even after this, Pathum Nissanka stood firm at one end and slowly started moving towards his century but Keshav Maharaj put a halt. Keshav sent Nissanka to the pavilion on the score of 89 runs.
Angelo Mathews created a record
Sri Lanka had lost 3 wickets at the score of 199 runs, after which Angelo Mathews and Kamindu Mendis took the lead and took the team’s score beyond 200. During this time, as soon as Angelo Mathews completed 34 runs in his personal account, he achieved a big milestone. With his 34th run, Mathews achieved the milestone of 8000 runs in Test cricket. He became only the third Sri Lankan batsman to do so. Before this, only Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene were able to achieve this special feat. Now a new name of Mathews has been added to this list.
Batsman who scored the most runs for Sri Lanka in Test cricket
- Kumar Sangakkara-12400
- Mahela Jayawardene- 11814
- Angelo Mathews- 8000
