Sri Lanka vs England 2nd Test at Pallekele, 14 Nov, 2018

Toss: England, who chose to bat
England 285/10 (75.4)  &  346/10 (80.4)
Sri Lanka 336/10 (103)  &  243/10 (74)
England won by 57 runs
Man of the Match: Joe Root
  • Akila Dananjaya 8 * (27)

Over 10.1 Moeen Ali tossed up delivery to Dimuth Karunaratne, no run, comes on to the front foot and defends it towards cover.

Over 10.2 Moeen Ali bowls a quicker arm ball to Dimuth Karunaratne, 2 runs, gets forward and  plays it with soft hands past the fielder at slip and takes two runs

Over 10.3 Moeen Ali tossed up delivery to Dimuth Karunaratne, no run, gets a big stride forward and pushes it straight to the man at cover.

Over 10.4 Moeen Ali tossed up delivery to Dimuth Karunaratne, 2 runs, goes down on his knee and sweeps it down to fine leg and picks up a couple of runs.

Over 10.5 Moeen Ali bowls it flat in the air to Dimuth Karunaratne, no run, presses forward and defends it down the pitch back to the bowler.

Over 10.6 Moeen Ali tossed up delivery to Dimuth Karunaratne, Boundary! Gets forward and goes for a drive and gets an outside edge. Between the keeper and first slip as it races away to the third man boundary. 

Over 12.1 Moeen Ali tossed up delivery to AD Mathews,1 run, gets forward and sweeps it along the ground through square leg and picks up a single.

Over 12.2 Moeen Ali bowls it flat in the air to Dimuth Karunaratne,1 run, gets forward and dabs it to backward point and picks up another single.

Over 12.3 Moeen Ali bowls a quicker arm ball to AD Mathews, no run, comes on to the front foot and pads it away on the onside.

Over 12.4 Moeen Ali tossed up delivery to AD Mathews,1 run, gets forward and sweeps it through mid-wicket and picks up another single.

Over 12.5 Moeen Ali tossed up delivery to Dimuth Karunaratne, no run, goes down on his knee and plays a reverse sweep towards point.

Over 12.6 Moeen Ali bowls it flat in the air to Dimuth Karunaratne, no run, gets a big stride forward and blocks it back to the bowler.

Over 14.1 Moeen Ali tossed up delivery to AD Mathews,1 run, goes deep in the crease and  turns it past short leg and takes a run

Over 14.2 Moeen Ali tossed up delivery to Dimuth Karunaratne, no run, gets forward and looks to flick across the line and gets a leading edge towards point.

Over 14.3 Moeen Ali bowls a quicker arm ball to Dimuth Karunaratne, no run, stays deep inside the crease and dabs it towards gully.

Over 14.4 Moeen Ali slips in a full toss to Dimuth Karunaratne, Boundary! Stands tall and pulled away to deep mid-wicket fence for four.

Over 14.5 Moeen Ali tossed up delivery to Dimuth Karunaratne,1 run, gets forward and pushes it down to sweeper cover and picks up one more.

Over 14.6 Moeen Ali tossed up delivery to AD Mathews, no run, gets forward and looks to squeeze it out but gets an outside edge. The ball flies to the right of Stokes who gets a hand to it but the ball doesn't stick in.

Over 16.1 Moeen Ali tossed up delivery to Dimuth Karunaratne, no run, gets forward and defends it down the pitch back to the bowler.

Over 16.2 Moeen Ali tossed up delivery to Dimuth Karunaratne, no run, gets a big stride forward and defends it back to the bowler.

Over 16.3 Moeen Ali bowls it short of length to Dimuth Karunaratne, 2 runs, rocks back in the crease and cuts it down to the deep point and picks up a couple of runs.

Over 16.4 Moeen Ali tossed up delivery to Dimuth Karunaratne, no run, gets forward and left alone outside off through to the keeper.

Over 16.5 Moeen Ali tossed up delivery to Dimuth Karunaratne, no run, stays on the front foot and pushes it straight to the man at cover.

Over 16.6 Moeen Ali tossed up delivery to Dimuth Karunaratne, no run, gets forward and defends it to point with an angled bat.

Over 18.1 Moeen Ali tossed up delivery to Dimuth Karunaratne, no run, gets forward and goes for a drive and gets an outside edge that drops well short of short third man.

Over 18.2 Moeen Ali tossed up delivery to Dimuth Karunaratne,1 run, gets forward and looks to defend and ends up getting an inside edge. Past the fielder at short leg and he gets a single.

Over 18.3 Moeen Ali tossed up delivery to AD Mathews, no run, gets forward and swept it straight to short leg.

Over 18.4 Moeen Ali bowls it flat in the air to AD Mathews, no run, gets a big stride forward and defends it to silly-point.

Over 18.5 Moeen Ali tossed up delivery to AD Mathews,1 run, gets forward and sweeps it through mid-wicket and picks up an easy single.

Over 18.6 Moeen Ali bowls a quicker arm ball to Dimuth Karunaratne, no run, gets forward and defends it with the bat angled towards cover-point.

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