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Saturday, July 19, 2025

Baugh impresses as Test ends in draw

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Baugh hit an even 50, as West In­dies, re­ply­ing to Sri Lan­ka's first in­nings to­tal of 387 for nine de­clared, were dis­missed for 243 just be­fore the resched­uled tea break on the fifth and fi­nal day.West In­dies mere­ly went through the mo­tions, as the Sri Lankans de­clared on 57 for one in their sec­ond in­nings leav­ing to vis­i­tors to ne­go­ti­ate 21 overs be­fore the close.

Chas­ing a high­ly im­prob­a­ble, if not im­pos­si­ble tar­get of 202, West In­dies lost open­ers Chris Gayle and Adri­an Barath be­fore reach­ing 12 for two in their sec­ond in­nings when bad light stopped play ten overs ear­ly.The re­sult meant the three-Test se­ries re­mains lev­el 0–0, af­ter the first Test was al­so af­fect­ed by rain, and end­ed in a draw.

The fi­nal and de­cid­ing Test, starts on Wednes­day at Pallekelle.

"If we look at the se­ries, it is still 0–0, so we have every­thing to play for (in the next Test)," said West In­dies cap­tain Dar­ren Sam­my."Dar­ren Bra­vo, Ke­mar Roach [both in the first in­nings], and Baugh all played well. It's been a long time we are go­ing in­to the fi­nal Test 0–0, and the play­ers are look­ing for­ward to it."

West In­dies con­tin­ued from their overnight 165 for five, af­ter the to­tal washout of the fourth day on Fri­day.Baugh bat­ted with un­usu­al con­trol to reach his 50 from 101 balls, when he pushed a de­liv­ery from Ajan­tha Mendis in­to the cov­ers for a sin­gle.Twice he chal­lenged um­pir­ing de­ci­sions for lbw ver­dicts off Ajan­tha Mendis and Ran­gana Herath be­fore reach­ing the land­mark.Baugh added a valu­able 44 with Dwayne Bra­vo for the sixth wick­et, which en­sured Sri Lan­ka need­ed to bat again.

Bra­vo was stumped off Herath for 20 to trig­ger a mi­ni-col­lapse in which West In­dies cap­tain Dar­ren Sam­my was caught at mid-wick­et for two off Suran­ga Lak­mal, and Sulie­man Benn was caught at for­ward short leg for a duck off Herath.West In­dies slid from 205 for five to 209 for eight in the space of 12 balls be­fore Baugh halt­ed the slide, when he dom­i­nat­ed a stand of 31 with Shane Shilling­ford to reach his land­mark be­fore Herath bowled him.

Herath was most suc­cess­ful Sri Lan­ka bowler with three wick­ets for 76 runs from 23 overs.West In­dies seemed in­dif­fer­ent about re­turn­ing for an­oth­er mean­ing­less spell in the field, and Sri Lan­ka's open­ers Tha­ranga Paranav­i­tana and Tillka­ratne Dil­shan in­dulged them­selves.But Dwayne Bra­vo had Dil­shan caught be­hind down the leg-side for 26, and the home team soon af­ter de­clared.

Things got in­trigu­ing, when Mendis trapped Adri­an Barath lbw for eight, and Dil­shan had Chris Gayle caught at slip for three, but the weath­er in­ter­vened to spoil the fun. (CMC)

SCORE

Sri Lan­ka vs West In­dies 5th day, 2nd Test

SRI LAN­KA 1st In­nings

387 for nine de­clared

WEST IN­DIES1st In­nings

(overnight 165 for five)

C Gayle c Math­ews b Lak­mal 30

A Barath lbw b Ku­lasekara 3

DM Bra­vo c Herath b Dil­shan 80

S Chan­der­paul lbw b Mendis 8

B Nash lbw b Dil­shan 29

DJ Bra­vo st P Jayawar­dene

b Herath 20

C Baugh b Herath 50

D Sam­my c Math­ews b Lak­mal 2

S Benn c Paranav­i­tana b Herath 0

S Shilling­ford not out 5

K Roach b Mendis 3

Ex­tras (lb5, nb8) 13

TO­TAL: (all out, 71.3 overs) 243

Fall of wick­ets: 1–7 (Barath), 2–51 (Gayle), 3–77 (Chan­der­paul), 4–160 (Nash), 5–161 (DM Bra­vo), 6–205 (DJ Bra­vo), 7–208 (Sam­my), 8–209 (Benn), 9–240 (Baugh)

Bowl­ing: Mendis 16.3–1–56–2 (nb3); Lak­mal 16–1–84–2 (nb5); Ku­lasekara 11–5–17–1; Herath 23–3–76–3; Math­ews 3–2–1–0; Dil­shan 2–0–4–2

SRI LAN­KA 2nd In­nings

T Paran­vi­tana not out 20

T Dil­shan c wkpr Baugh

b DJ Bra­vo 26

K San­gakkara not out 1

Ex­tras: (b5, lb4, nb1) 10

TO­TAL: (1 wkt de­cl'd, 15 overs) 57

Fall of wick­ets: 1–55 (Dil­shan)

Bowl­ing: Roach 5–0–15–0; Sam­my 4–1–16–0; DJ Bra­vo 4–1–8–1 (w1); Benn 2–0–9–0

WEST IN­DIES 2nd In­nings (tar­get: 202 runs)

C Gayle c M Jayawar­dene b Dil­shan 3

A Barath lbw b Mendis 8

DM Bra­vo not out 0

S Chan­der­paul not out 0

Ex­tras: (nb1) 1

TO­TAL: (2 wk­ts, 11 overs) 12

Fall of wick­ets: 1–9 (Barath), 2–11 (Gayle)

Bowl­ing: Lak­mal 2–0–7–0; Dil­shan 5–2–4–1; Mendis 3–2–1–1 (nb1); Herath 1–1–0–0

Re­sult: Match drawn

Se­ries: Three-match se­ries lev­el 0–0

Man-of-the-Match: K San­gakkara (Sri Lan­ka)

Um­pires: Asad Rauf, R Ket­tle­bor­ough

TV um­pire: S Davis Match ref­er­ee: A Hurst Re­serve um­pire: K Dhar­mase­na


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