Dananjaya leads Sri Lanka subjection withdrawal S. Africa confronting new defeat

 COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Akila Dananjaya took 5 wickets as South Africa crumbled to 124 all out on a second day of a second Test on Saturday and confronting a varnish in a two-match series.

Sri Lankan spinners ran demonstration on a dry representation in Colombo after a home side done 338 with Dananjaya starring in a last-wicket mount with Rangana Herath.

Herath and Dilruwan Perera took a remaining 5 South African wickets between them, with captain Suranga Lakmal not compulsory to broach a singular round in a innings.

Already a diversion down after bad batting in a initial Test, usually South Africa captain Faf du Plessis and wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock showed resistance, creation 48 off 51 balls and 32 off 31 respectively.

South Africa lasted usually 34.5 overs, after Sri Lanka had batted for 104.1 overs in their initial innings.

Dananjaya, left out for a initial Test during Galle, struck with his second round of a match, carrying Dean Elgar held during gully with a branch offbreak.

He got Theunis de Bruyn circumference behind in a subsequent over, and Perera picked adult a South Africa center sequence to finish on 4 for 40.

The usually batsman to put any vigour on Sri Lanka was du Plessis, who pounded a spinners after lunch, unconditional with desert as he struck 8 fours and a six.

He and Hashim Amla put on a best partnership of 55, though Perera discharged them both within 4 overs of any other. Despite de Kock’s assertive innings, a residue of South Africa’s batting fell divided quickly.

Dananjaya came behind to purify adult a tail, completing a second five-wicket transport in his three-Test career.

Herath and Dananjaya strike out with a bat in a morning, as Sri Lanka’s final span put on 74 to transport a hosts to 338.

South Africa’s left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj eventually discharged Herath to finish a innings, and finish a transport of 9 for 129 — a second-best for a South Africa bowler ever, and a best given a nation returned to Test cricket in 1991. —AFP

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