00:02Certainly a most sensational start to this innings, with Sri Lanka having this tremendous
00:07task of first achieving a score of 315 to avoid the innings defeat, and here comes Skipper
00:13Duluth Mendis, a penny for his thoughts as he walks into bat.
00:28Faces up to Hogg, so now lovely shot by Mendis who steers this down to the third man region,
00:37Hogan is having a long chase for it, he'll pick it up just inside as the batsmen go through
00:40for three runs, and Hogan return comes, so the total going up to nine, and Mendis going
00:48up to four.
00:55Runs in now, and bowls.
00:59This one Mendis cutting him over the heads of the slips, down to the third man boundary
01:04for four runs.
01:07So Mendis defiant stroke there, to a lifting delivery, the total moves on to thirteen.
01:15Mendis on eight, faces up to Lily.
01:22And this one hooked away, a very nice shot by.
01:25He dropped it.
01:27And I lost sight of it, as it went Hogg fielding, a back foot square leg.
01:38Runs in, accelerates, and bowls to Mendis and Mendis on the back foot, smacking my way down
01:43to wide mid-off, there's a long chase for Yardley, and I don't think he'll get to it.
01:49It's four runs, and this is the sort of mood that Mendis should be in if he is to score,
01:58because Mendis is not the type of player who likes to be contained.
02:04And so far, winning the battle with Lily, and here's Lily, once again to Mendis, and a flash
02:09like this, and that could have been very close to bat, mid-on, short mid-wicket, backwards
02:18square, extending deep, Yardley bowls to Mendis.
02:22Well flighted, and he swings this round, and it's four runs going in first bounce into the
02:29boundary, so four more to Mendis, takes him on to twenty-four, sixty-eight for four.
02:38Lily to Mendis, that's one, gets on top of it very nicely and steers it down to point,
02:45they get runs in this, they turn for two, so two runs to Mendis, takes the total on to
02:54seventy-two for four, and Mendis moves on to thirty-eight.
03:01Lily, past umpire Felsinger, Mendis tries to turn you off his pads, ball lifting outside
03:08the leg stump, plays underneath it, goes through to Woolley.
03:17And Lily bowls to Mendis, oh and that's a beautiful ball, as ball cut into Mendis, Mendis
03:27cut it batting just in time, got a thick edge and the ball whizzed past his leg stump, a magnificent
03:33ball from Lily, and it's Lily to continue from the southern end, and he bowls to Mendis.
03:45And Mendis, a lovely shot there, Isaac hits it on the rise, down to point, beautiful cover
03:50drive for four runs, that was vintage Mendis.
03:56Total moves on to seventy-eight for four, and Mendis goes on to forty-two.
04:00And let's see what Lily's reaction will be to that, as he bowls again to Mendis.
04:06And that one, he puts it outside and Mendis slashing at it, Mendis faces up to Lily.
04:18And this one, play in the air but safely down to extra cover for four runs.
04:2782 for four, Mendis, forty-six, getting two fours off, Lily in this over.
04:33As Lily goes in once again to Mendis.
04:38So now it's the off-stamp and it lets it go through.
04:41And the crowd enjoying every bit of it.
04:45The score moves up to eighty-seven for four, Mendis on fifty-one, Hogg coming in to bowl to him.
04:53Again, but Yardley is there, deep down at back-foot point.
04:59And one run off that stroke.
05:05Bruce Yardley, from the southern end, bowls to Mendis.
05:11This one cuts, and it turns very nicely down to mid, you've got four runs.
05:17So that is the fifty-run partnership.
05:21Mendis goes on to fifty-six, a partnership now worth fifty-two.
05:27Sri Lanka, ninety-eight for four.
05:29Sixty-four minutes.
05:34As Hogg comes in from the northern end to bowl to Mendis.
05:38And this one, he flashes at it outside the off-stamp,
05:40the ball going underneath his bat, through to Bully.
05:44And the crowd once again expressing their disapproval of Mendis's stroke.
05:54Hug.
05:57Into Mendis.
05:59This one turned off his bat, the no-ball signal by Empire Anthony.
06:03I get the singer for it.
06:05The hundred of the Sri Lanka Indians coming up.
06:09Cracker has been lit.
06:11For four.
06:14Hogan.
06:15To Mendis.
06:16And Mendis on the back-foot cuts him firmly to extra cover,
06:21and it's going to be four runs.
06:24Mendis now delighting the crowd with some superb stroke play,
06:29taking advantage of anything short of length.
06:37Hogan balls and Mendis pulls him around.
06:39And that's going to be four runs.
06:42Mendis.
06:44Not sparing anything short of a length.
06:47And he's batting in superb fettle at the moment.
06:50Four more.
06:51Takes him to sixty-six.
06:52And the total to 121 for four.
06:57Hogan to Mendis.
06:58Faster delivery.
06:59And the back-foot.
07:00And it cuts him between point and cover and its four runs.
07:06So, Hogan coming in for some stick and Mendis at his best.
07:14Yardley.
07:16From the near end.
07:19Coming in to bowl to Mendis.
07:26Safe enough.
07:30I don't think it'll reach the boundary.
07:38Hook stops that shot with his foot.
07:41Mendis to Tulip Mendis.
07:50And he's out.
08:00Well, that was most unfortunate indeed for Sri Lanka.
08:03One forty-two.
08:05And the next week it falls.
08:06That of Dulip Mendis off the bowling of Yardley.
08:11A ninety-six run partnership between Ranatunda and Mendis.
08:14And Hook's.
08:16Made that just one mistake.
08:19Of.
08:20Lofting that ball to mid off.
08:23And Hook's of course.
08:24Made no mistake about it.
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