Sri Lanka’s Kamindu Mendis (left) celebrates after hitting half-century vs NZ.© AFP
The success story of Kamindu Mendis since he made his Test debut continues. The Sri Lanka star remained unbeaten on 51 on the primary day of the second Test in opposition to New Zealand in Galle on Thursday and in doing so he set a brand new world report. The 25-year-old star is now the primary batter within the 147 yr historical past of Test cricket to attain a fifty-plus rating in every of his first eight Tests since debut. Before him, Pakistan’s Shaud Shakeel held the report as he had fifty-plus rating is every of the primary seven Tests that he performed. Earlier, India’s Sunil Gavaskar (6) collectively held the report with three others.
50+ scores in most successive Tests from debut
8 – Kamindu Mendis*
7 – Saud Shakeel
6 – Bert Sutcliffe, Saeed Ahmed, Basil Butcher and Sunil Gavaskar
Dinesh Chandimal’s century in Galle powered Sri Lanka to 306-3 at stumps on Thursday’s opening day of the second Test in opposition to New Zealand.
The left-hander was bowled by Glenn Phillips within the closing session after hitting 15 boundaries in his knock of 116 — his sixth Test century on the picturesque venue and his sixteenth total.
Angelo Mathews (78) and Kamindu Mendis (51) will resume for the hosts on the second day after each hitting half-centuries.
For Kamindu it was a world report eighth consecutive fifty because the 25-year-old’s debut in opposition to Australia on the identical venue two years in the past.
Mathews reached his personal milestone by changing into solely the sixth cricketer to make 2,000 Test runs at a single venue — a choose group that features the likes of Joe Root and Graham Gooch — on the notoriously bowler-friendly Galle pitch.
Chandimal made his ton with a single off Kiwi spinner Mitchell Santner in a knock that capitalised on unfastened deliveries.
He powered forwards after the top of his 122-run stand with Dimuth Karunaratne, who was run out on 46 and walked again to the pavilion fuming after a miscommunication between the pair.
With AFP inputs
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