Second century for Asalanka
Charith Asalanka leading the Sri Lanka Youth team proved his consistency and class by complementing his double century a few days ago came up with a well compiled 124 in the second day of the three-day Youth Test against the Pakistan Under-19 team which comenced at Sooriyawewa yesterday.
Charith reached his century with a boundary off the bowling of Hayathulla facing 171 deliveries which included a dozen boundaries. Charith who may have been looking forward to repeat his performance of the first game was unfortunate to be caught by Mohamed Umar off the bowling of Saif Ali Gauri for 124 for which he faced 190 balls and had fourteen hits to the ropes.
Invited to bat first Sri Lanka were all out for 305 at close of play yesterday. There were five changes made to the Pakistan team with Hamza Khan, Hassan Moshin, Hayathulla, Mohamed Umar and Sameen Gul replacing Kamran Afzal, Aon Abbas, Awais Iqbal, Arfan Laquart and Mohamed Bilal Shah.
The Sri Lankan youth invited to bat first lost Openers Salinda Ushan (1), Shanogeeth Shanmuganathan (14) and Avishka Fernando (17) to go in for lunch with the score on 92 for 3 in 29 overs.
Hayathulla bowled Sammu Ashan (35) in post lunch session to see the Sri Lankan’s at 229/4 at tea. Charith was the first to go after tea and was followed by Damith Silva five balls later. The home team lost their seventh wicket when Lakshina Rodrigo was caught behind off the bowling of Shadab Khan for 37 and Ravin Sayer was the eighth to be trapped leg before by Hassan Moshin for six. Jehan Daniel survived being hit on the helmet and registered a fifty on debut. The days play was called off when Sri Lanka lost their last wicket with the total on 305 runs at the end of 87.4 overs.
Pakistan used six bowlers with Sameer Gul and Shadaab Khan capturing three wickets each while Hayathullah was rewarded with two wickets and sail Ali Gauri and Hassan Moshin capturing one each
Scoreboard
Sri Lanka U-19s first innings
Shanogeeth Shanmuganathan
c Masood b Hayathulla 14
Salinda Ushan c Uman b Sameen Gul 1
Charith Asalanka c Umar b Gouri 124
Avishka Fernando c Shafique b Gul 17
Shammu Ashan b Hayathulla 35
Lakshina Rodrigo c Masood b Khan 37
Damith Silva b Hayathulla 0
Jehan Daniel lbw b Shadab Khan 51
Ravin Sayer lbw b Hassan Moshin 6
Lakshan Fernando c Shafique b Gul 2
Geethal Malinda not out 1
Extras (5lb, 6nb, 6wd) 17
Total (all out; 87.4 overs) 305
Fall of Wickets 1-11(4.3, Salinda), 2-52 (18.5, Shanogeeth), 3-84 (27.5, Avishka), 4-153 (42, Sammu), 5-223 (63.5, Charith), 6-227 (64.4, Damith), 7-250 (69.5, Lakshina), 8-279 (80.4, Ravin),
9-302 (86.4, Daniel)
Bowling: Sameen Gul 16.4-4-56-3, Saif Ali Gauri 12-2-41-1, Hassan Moshin 6-1-28-1, Shadab Khan 26-3-88-3, Hayathulla 25-3-25-2, Imran Rafiq 2-1-06-0