A few days ago, Ireland played a test match against Bangladesh. This time the Irish have started a two-match Test series against Sri Lanka. The hosts Sri Lanka got a huge collection on the first day of the first match. After winning the toss and batting at the end of the first day, the Lankans accumulated 386 runs for 4 wickets. Lankan captain Dimuth Karunaratne and Kushal Mendis made good use of the flat wicket in Sri Lanka’s goal and the opponent’s edgeless bowling. Despite losing the first wicket for 64 runs, Sri Lanka’s second wicket stand stood at 281 runs, the highest stand for any wicket at this ground. Earlier, the biggest pair in this field was two batsmen from Bangladesh Mohammad Ashraful and Mushfiqur Rahim.

In 2013, these two batsmen made a partnership of 267 runs. Now Karunaratne and Mendis broke it.Meanwhile, Lankan captain Karunaratne has written another record. As the second batsman, he made a record of fifty innings against 10 countries in Tests. At the beginning of this month, Bangladesh’s Mushfiqur set the record against Ireland. Karunaratne made a record but could not make two hundred. He was cut by Adair for 179 runs. Meanwhile, Kushal Mendis was also lbw after scoring 140 runs. At the end of the day, Chandimal remained unbeaten on 18 and Prabhath Jayasuriya on 12 runs.