England vs Sri Lanka 3rd Test: The Sri Lankan cricket team has defeated England in their home ground in a Test match. Although they could not win the Test series, they did win the last match. England has won the 3-match Test series 2-1.
England had already won the series by winning the first two matches of the series. While the third and last test match of the series was played from 6 September, on the fourth day of which Sri Lanka won the match by 8 wickets.
The Sri Lankan team has won a Test match against England after 10 years. Earlier in June 2014, Sri Lanka defeated England by 100 runs in the Leeds Test. Overall, this is Sri Lanka’s fourth Test win in England. The first Test was won in August 1998 and the second Test in June 2006.
This is how Sri Lanka defeated England team
After losing the toss and batting first, England team scored 325 runs in the first innings. In response, Sri Lankan team could score only 263 runs. In this sense, England team got a lead of 62 runs in the first innings. After this, England team could score only 156 runs in the second innings and gave Sri Lanka a target of only 219 runs.
In response, the Sri Lankan team won the match by losing only 2 wickets on the fourth day. In the second innings, opener Pathum Nissanka played a strong unbeaten innings of 127 runs for Sri Lanka. While Angelo Mathews scored an unbeaten 32 runs. Apart from him, Dimuth Karunaratne scored 8 and Kusal Mendis scored 39 runs.
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