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Saud Shakeel marched towards a first Test century in over two years as Pakistan continued their dominance on the second morning of the first Test against Sri Lanka on Tuesday in Rawalpindi. The session brought 109 runs and just the solitary wicket, as Pakistan moved from 281 for 5 to 390 for 6 at lunch.
Much of Shakeel’s – and Pakistan’s – runs in the session came as part of a 96-run partnership with Ghazi Ghori. And once the latter fell, two runs short of a maiden Test fifty, debutant Arrafat Minhas stepped in without missing a step, and the pair had put on 41 by the interval.
Sri Lanka’s breakthrough came against the run of play, and followed the arrival of the new ball. It was more batter error than anything bowler induced, as Ghazi wafted at a wide one from Dilshan Madushanka. A very good catch from Pasindu Sooriyabandara, who was briefly wrong-footed at gully, completed the play.
It was a brief moment of reprieve on yet another tiring morning for the Sri Lanka seamers. But as has been the case across most of the Pakistan innings, Sri Lanka were unable to string wickets together.
The Shakeel-Ghazi stand was the fourth 50-plus stand of the innings, and before long the Shakeel-Arafat pairing was threatening to become the fifth. Much of this was down to Arafat’s proactive approach.
Parachuted in from the white-ball side, he looked every bit the shorter-format player plying his trade in Tests. He faced just seven deliveries before slashing a short one over gully for his first Test boundary, and his second followed soon after with another similar uppercut behind square.
New Zealand’s 11 series-winning streak at home – the second-longest in bilateral men’s ODIs – came to an end with no play possible in the third ODI against India in Hamilton on Tuesday. Coming into the third ODI 2-0 behind, New Zealand can now only hope to draw the series in the two matches in Mount Manganui over the weekend before the two teams start their two-Test series.
It started to rain in Hamilton on the afternoon before the match, and rarely let up after. The ground was in such good order that the groundstaff took little time to get the surface ready for play when there was a brief break in the downpour.
Five persons have died and over 50 persons have been injured in a ultiple-bus collision on the Medawachchiya–Rambewa Road in Anuradhapura involving two Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) buses and a private bus.
The injured have been admitted to the Anuradhapura Hospital for treatment.
The accident occurred on the A9 Road in the Rambewa area after two SLTB buses collided head-on, before a private bus then crashed into the rear of one of the SLTB buses.
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