Dimuth Karunaratne Slams Unbeaten Ton As Sri Lanka Take Upper Hand On Day 1: SL vs WI

Dimuth Karunaratne: On Day 1 of the first Test against the West Indies at the Galle International Cricket Stadium on Sunday, Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne smashed an unbeaten century to give his team the upper hand.

Highlights

• On the opening day of the first Test in Galle, Karunaratne hit an unbeaten 132
• After taking a hit, Wisconsin’s Jeremy Solozano was taken to the hospital
• On Day 2, Sri Lanka will face the West Indies at 267/3

On Day 1 of the first Test against the West Indies, Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne smashed an unbeaten century to give his team the upper hand.

West Indies rookie Jeremy Solozano was hospitalized after being injured while fielding on Sunday. With two overs remaining, bad light forced an early stop to the day’s play at the Galle International Cricket Stadium, with the hosts finishing on 267-3. Karunaratne batted all day after winning the toss on a sluggish track, putting on a 139-run partnership with Pathum Nissanka for the first wicket.

Roston Chase, a part-time spinner, quickly bowled Oshada Fernando and Angelo Mathews for three runs each to pull the West Indies back into the game.

But Sri Lanka regained control as Karunaratne and Dhananjaya de Silva put on a 97-run partnership for the fourth wicket.

Karunaratne’s century was his 13th in Test cricket and his fourth this season. Despite only playing 10 innings, he has scored moreover 750 runs in 2021, including a career-best 244 against Bangladesh.

When Karunaratne attempted a full-blooded pull shot off Chase’s bowling, the ball crashed into the helmet grill of Solorzano, who was fielding at short leg, giving the West Indies a scare.

Medical personnel treated him on the ground before transferring him to a waiting ambulance on a stretcher.

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Arjuna de Silva, the head of the Sri Lanka Cricket medical panel, told AFP:

“He underwent scans at a hospital in Colombo and will be kept overnight for observation,”

“There’s no internal bleeding and the scans show no structural damage,” he added.

He received scans at a hospital in Colombo and will be detained for monitoring overnight, according to the West Indies.

‘We have to show patience,’ said Shannon Gabriel, who got the tourists off to a good start. When he had Nissanka caught at first slip for 56 after pursuing a full ball wide outside the off-stump.

Nissanka told reporters:

“We had to show patience and see through the first session. We overcame that tough period and from then on it was good for batting,”

“Disappointed I did the hard work and couldn’t make most of the start I got,” he added.

After Karunaratne hit an uncommon reverse sweep off Jomel Warrican’s left-arm orthodox spin. And the ball struck his front pad, the West Indies unsuccessfully appealed.

The impact occurred outside off-stump, according to television replays.

The tourists lost their second appeal after Chase bowled a caught-behind appeal against Nissanka.

Mathews went on Chase in an attempt to break the shackles. But he was caught by the lone fielder Jason Holder at mid-wicket.

Soon after 80 overs, the West Indies received their second new ball. But they were unable to break the Karunaratne-de Silva combination.

Kemar Roach, the tourists’ most seasoned player, and eighth-highest Test wicket-taker had been left out, surprising supporters.

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