Shoriful Islam to A Perera, 3 runs, back of a length ball on middle and leg, Perera works it nicely in front of square on the on-side. The chase is on but some good running between the wickets allows the batters to come back for the third run.
1.5
Shoriful Islam to A Perera, leg byes, FOUR, back of a length ball around the hips, Perera looks to tuck it across but it deflects off his thigh pad and beats short fine to his right to find the fence
1.5
Shoriful Islam to A Perera, leg byes, FOUR, back of a length ball around the hips, Perera looks to tuck it across but it deflects off his thigh pad and beats short fine to his right to find the fence
1.4
Shoriful Islam to A Perera, SIX, fuller length ball swinging towards the pads, Perera whips it over long leg for a maximum. That was hit with the wind and went a long way
1.4
Shoriful Islam to A Perera, SIX, fuller length ball swinging towards the pads, Perera whips it over long leg for a maximum. That was hit with the wind and went a long way
1.3
Shoriful Islam to A Perera, no run, a big appeal for lbw is cut short! Fuller length ball swinging down, Perera looks to swipe it across but is struck on the pads. Clearly going down leg
1.3
Shoriful Islam to A Perera, no run, a big appeal for lbw is cut short! Fuller length ball swinging down, Perera looks to swipe it across but is struck on the pads. Clearly going down leg
1.2
Shoriful Islam to Gurbaz, 1 run, back of a length ball on the hips, tucked to deep backward square leg
1.1
Shoriful Islam to A Perera, 1 run, back of a length ball in the channel, Perera plays it with an angled bat past backward point
1.1
Shoriful Islam to A Perera, wide, a poor delivery swinging down leg, Chandimal has to dive to his left to stop it
Shoriful Islam, left-arm fast medium, comes into the attack
0.6
Mathews to A Perera, 1 run, full ball swinging in from outside off, Perera hits it off the inner half towards wide mid-on to keep strike
0.5
Mathews to A Perera, FOUR, streaky but counts! Back of a length ball outside off, Perera pushes
0.4
Mathews to Gurbaz, 1 run, short of length ball seaming in from outside off, tapped towards backward point and Gurbaz is off the mark with a quick single
0.3
Mathews to Gurbaz, no run, back of a length ball outside off, Gurbaz looks to cut it square off the wicket but chops it besides him. Didn't have the room to free his arms
0.2
Mathews to Gurbaz, no run
0.2
Mathews to Gurbaz, wide, Gurbaz dances down the track but Mathews bowls it wide outside off, swings further away and cuts the tramline
0.1
Mathews to Gurbaz, no run, pitched up ball outside off, Gurbaz shuffles across his stumps and walks down the track. He looks to block but gets an inside edge onto the pads
Gurbaz and A Perera are at the crease. Gurbaz is on strike. Mathews will open the attack
The players and the umpires stride out to the middle. The sun is peeping through the clouds now. Good conditions for playing cricket.