Ravichandran Ashwin equals the record, this Sri Lankan spinner shows amazing performance in the Galle Test

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Ravichandran Ashwin equals the record, this Sri Lankan spinner shows amazing performance in the Galle Test

Prabhat Jayasuriya equaled Ravichandran Ashwin’s record.

The second match of the 2-match Test series is being played between Sri Lanka and New Zealand at the Galle ground, in which the dominance of the host Sri Lankan team was completely visible on the third day also. The bowlers of the Sri Lankan team first performed brilliantly and bundled out the Kiwi team’s first innings at a score of just 88. After this, he gave follow-on to New Zealand and at the end of the third day’s play, New Zealand had lost 5 wickets at the score of 199, while they are still 315 runs behind the first innings score of the Sri Lankan team. In the third day’s play, the wonders of Sri Lankan team’s left-arm spin bowler Prabhat Jayasuriya were seen, who equaled the record of Ravichandran Ashwin in a special case by taking a total of 6 wickets in the first innings of the Kiwi team.

Prabhat Jayasuriya has taken five wicket hauls 9 times in 16 tests so far.

Prabhat Jayasuriya has played 16 matches in Test cricket so far, out of which he has managed to take five wickets in an innings 9 times. Jayasuriya has equaled Ravichandran Ashwin in this matter, in which he also took 5 wicket hauls 9 times in the first 16 Test matches of his career. In this list, Jayasuriya was definitely successful in breaking the record of former Indian player Subhash Gupte, who had taken 5 wickets in an innings 8 times in as many Test matches. At the first place in this list is Australian player Clarrie Grimmett, who had taken 10 five-wicket hauls in the first 16 Test matches of her career. Out of the 5 wicket hauls that Prabhat Jayasuriya has taken so far in his career, he has taken 8 at Galle ground and one at SSC Ground in Colombo.

Sri Lankan team can win the match on the fourth day

The Sri Lankan team can win the second Test match of this series being played in Galle only on the fourth day, in which they had taken 5 wickets in the second innings of the Kiwi team. Out of this, Nissan Paris has taken 3 wickets while Prabhat Jayasuriya and Dhananjay de Silva have also taken one wicket each. If the Sri Lankan team wins this match, then while it will win the series 2-0, it will also get a huge advantage in the points table of the World Test Championship.

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