ENG vs SL 3rd Test: England scored 325 runs in the first innings, Sri Lanka also reached a good position, read the status of the second day’s game


Ollie Pope played a brilliant innings for England

England vs Sri Lanka, 3rd Test (Image Credit- Twitter X)

ENG vs SL 3rd Test: The last match of the ongoing three-match Test series between England and Sri Lanka (ENG vs SL) is being played at Kingston Oval ground in London. Let us tell you that today on Saturday, 7 September, the second day of the match ended.

About 30 overs of play were not possible due to poor light. Some overs of play were lost due to this on the first day of the match as well. In reply to England’s first innings score of 325 at stumps, Sri Lanka scored 211 runs for the loss of five wickets after 45 overs at the end of the second day. They are still trailing hosts England by 114 runs.

England vs Sri Lanka 3rd Test match, Day 2 result:

If we tell you about the second day of the game, England started playing ahead from 221/3. Captain Ollie Pope, who remained unbeaten on 103 runs on the first day, continued to bat in a brilliant manner. Pope played a brilliant innings of 154 runs in 156 balls with the help of 19 fours and 2 sixes. However, Harry Brook could add only 11 more runs to his innings and was dismissed for 19 runs.

Apart from this, wicketkeeper Jamie Smith could only score 16 runs and got caught by Kusal Mendis against Vishwa Fernando. Apart from this, Joe Root 13, Chris Woakes 2, Gus Atkinson 5, Ollie Stone 15, Josh Hall 2 and Shoaib Bashir got out cheaply after scoring 1 run.

At the time of stumps on the second day, Sri Lanka has scored 211 runs at the loss of 5 wickets after 45 overs in the first innings. Captain Dhananjay de Silva is present at the crease with 64* runs and Kamindu Mendis with 54* runs. There has been a partnership of 118 runs between the two for the sixth wicket, due to which Sri Lanka’s innings has recovered a bit.

Earlier, opener Pathum Nissanka batted brilliantly for the team and scored 64 runs. But Dimuth Karunaratne (9), Kusal Mendis (14), Angelo Mathews (3) and Dinesh Chandimal (0) disappointed. So far, Ollie Stone has taken 2 wickets and Chris Woakes and Josh Hall have taken 1 wicket each from England.



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