England vs Sri Lanka 2nd Test match at Lords. England won the match and got an unaccessible lead of 2-0 in the series. Sri Lanka tried to fight well in this series, and they’ve shown some good performances, but at the end the perfect team won. Eng won it by a huge margin of 192 runs with a day remaining. Gus Atkinson was the man of the match for his great all-round performance in the match.
Match Overview
For the 1st day details, please read: England vs Sri Lanka 2nd Test, Day 1: Joe Root’s 143 runs
In answer to England’s 1st inning score of 427 runs, Sri Lanka had a bad start as usual; they lost 3 early wickets at 35 runs. Pathum Nissanka who was playing in place of K. Mendis, also failed to fire. Except Kamindu Mendis no one from Sri Lankan batters scored runs. Kamindu Mendis scored 74 runs and with the help of that inning Sri Lanka scored 196 runs. All pacers from England got 2 wickets each and 1 for Shoaib Bashir.
Joe Root 2nd Century in the match, He is a record breaker
England’s 2nd inning didn’t have a good start; they lost 2 wickets early. Joe Root played the best inning for his team again; except for him no one played a significant inning. Joe Root scored his 2nd hundred of the match and 34th of his career. He broke the record of Alastair Cook for most hundreds in test cricket for England.
He also broke the record of Sir Graham Gooch for most runs at the Lords cricket stadium. He also broke the record of most hundred at the home of cricket. Joe Root is having his dream run in test cricket. He is in a race to become the highest run scorer in test cricket. Right now he is leading as the number 1 test cricketer in the ICC rankings.
Sri Lanka lost the series:
Joe Root helped England score 251 runs with his 103-run inning. Sri Lanka had to chase 483 runs to win the 2nd test at Lords. Sri Lanka is facing trouble at the top order; their opening pair failed in this series. Dimuth Karunaratne scored a 55 in the 2nd inning, but his partner Madhushka failed completely in this series.
They had a lot of time to chase the target; 2 and a half days were enough to chase, but the requirement was to play sensible cricket. Top order failed to fire and then no big inning from any of the Sri Lankan batsmen. Karunaratne, Chandimal, and De Silve scored fifties and Milan Rathnayake scored 43. Gus Atkinson got a 5-fer and received man of the match for his all-round performance in the match.
