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Jos Buttler and Dom Sibley celebrate their win

 

Dom Sibley scored an unbeaten half-century as England chased down a target of 164 to secure a sweep of the series, beating Sri Lanka by six wickets in the second Test on a day of drama at the Galle International Stadium yesterday.


England scored 164 for four, with Sibley 56 not out and Jos Buttler unbeaten on 46 as they overcame jittery moments to complete a 2-0 series triumph.


The tourists overturned a 37-run deficit after the first innings to win a sixth successive Test in Sri Lanka, after earlier dismissing Sri Lanka for 126 in their second innings, giving themselves a confidence boost ahead of next month’s start of a four-Test series in India.


England’s run chase began nervously as they lost their first four wickets for 89 runs, including a tired-looking Joe Root, with Sri Lanka’s dangerous spinner Lasith Embuldeniya threatening with the new ball and taking three wickets for a match tally of 10.


But an unbeaten 75-run partnership between Sibley, who had previously failed with the bat on tour and Buttler saw England home as they showed the application their hosts lacked in their batting. England, who added only five runs to their overnight tally before being dismissed for 344, took just over a session to turn the match on its head as Dom Bess and spin partner Jack Leach claimed four wickets each in Sri Lanka’s second innings.


Bess took four for 49 and Leach four 59 as the home batting line-up was undone by the turn of the wicket and rash shots. It included a wild sweep from veteran Angelo Mathews as he was bowled by Bess for five and a slog that was top-edged by Captain Dinesh Chandimal (9) and expertly caught by James Anderson off Leach.


Embuldeniya, with a quick-fire 40 off 42 balls, was the only home batsmen to make more than 20 and his 48-run ninth wicket partnership with Suranga Lakmal helped set England a tougher target.


But he was eventually dismissed off the part-time bowling of Root, who claimed another wicket with his next ball by bowling Asitha Ferando to wrap-up the innings. 


Root finished with figures of two for naught off 11 balls.


England won last week’s first Test by seven wickets in a victorious start to a year in which they will play 17 Test matches.


- Reuters 

 


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