There have been few instances where a team has made a more shambolic start to a day's play than Sri Lanka did on the third morning of the first Test against England.
In the entire 147-year history of Test cricket, there have perhaps been few instances where a team has made a more shambolic start to a day's play than Sri Lanka did on the third morning of the first Test against England at Old Trafford. First, skipper Dhananjaya de Silva tried to bowl Asitha Fernando for the first over of the morning, only to be stopped by the umpires as the seamer had bowled the final over of the previous day.
Dimuth Karunaratne and skipper De Silva , who was unable to build on his first-innings top score of 74, then fell in the afternoon to leave their side wobbling on 95-4, with Dinesh Chandimal being forced off the field injured after being hit on the thumb by Mark Wood. 'The tone was pretty bad at the start of it,' former Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara told Sky Sports.
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