Lahiru Kumara became the third bowler for Sri Lanka to take the fastest 100 wickets in Test cricket.
Fastest to 100 wickets for Sri Lanka in Tests: The second match of the 2-match Test series being played between South Africa and Sri Lanka is being played from 5th December at Gkebarha ground, in which the first day’s play was won by both the teams. While South Africa had scored 269 runs in its first innings by the end of the day’s play, the Sri Lankan team had also taken 7 wickets. In the first day’s play, the wonder of Sri Lankan team’s fast bowler Lahiru Kumara was seen, who managed to take three wickets in his name. With this, Lahiru also included his name in a special list.
Lahiru becomes the fastest bowler to take 100 test wickets for Sri Lanka
The Sri Lankan cricket team has had a great performance on the field in the last 6 months, in which they have succeeded in defeating even the big teams. Talking about Lahiru Kumara, he has now become the third bowler for Sri Lanka to take the fastest 100 wickets in Test cricket. Along with this, he also became a part of the special group of legendary Sri Lankan bowler Lasith Malinga. While Lahiru took his 100th wicket on the 5574th ball of his Test career, only Prabhat Jayasuriya and Lasith Malinga are ahead of him in this matter. While Prabhat completed his 100 wickets in 5278 balls, Malinga took his 100th Test wicket in just 5029 balls.
Fastest bowler to take 100 wickets in test cricket for Sri Lanka
Lasith Malinga – 5029 balls
Prabhat Jayasuriya – 5278 balls
Lahiru Kumara – 5574 balls
Dilhara Fernando – 6148 balls
Dilruan Perera – 6185 balls
Rickelton took charge of Africa’s innings
At one time on the first day of the Gkebarha Test match, the South African team had lost three wickets in their first innings till the score was 44 and from here again Ryan Rickelton along with captain Temba Bavuma played an important role in managing the innings. While Ryan returned to the pavilion after playing an inning of 101 runs, Bavuma also played an excellent inning of 78 runs. At the end of the day’s play, Kyle Vereni was playing on 48 runs.
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