Windies eye victory after Lanka collapse

CRICKET: (AFP) Sri Lanka suffered a dramatic second innings batting collapse on Saturday to hand the West Indies a superb opportunity to win the second and final Test.

At lunch on the third day, Sri Lanka, trailing by 16 runs on first innings, reached 78 for five in their second knock with Thilan Samaraweera not out on 15 and Chamara Silva not out on five. Sri Lanka had dismissed West Indies for 294 in their first innings 50 minutes after the start with Muttiah Muralitharan ending with five wickets for 79 runs from 29.2 overs.

But the Sri Lankans soon found themselves in trouble as the home team’s fast bowlers, led by Jerome Taylor, gained appreciable bounce and movement from the lively Queen’s Park Oval pitch and ran through their opponents’ top order.
Taylor has been the West Indies’ most successful bowler so far with two wickets for 22 runs from six overs and also contributed a run out to help put the skids under the tourists’ batting.

RI LANKA - 1ST INNINGS 278 
WEST INDIES - 1ST INNINGS
C. Gayle c Vandort b Thushara	 	 45
S. Chattergoon b Vaas	 		 46
R. Sarwan c Warnapura b Muralitharan	 57
M. Samuels lbw b Muralitharan	 	  3
S. Chanderpaul lbw b Thushara	 	 18
D. Smith b Muralitharan			 47
D. Bravo lbw b Amerasinghe		 26
D. Ramdin c Jayawardene b Muralitharan	 13
J. Taylor lbw b Vaas	 		 13
D. Powell lbw b Muralitharan	 	  3
F. Edwards not out	 		  1
Extras (lb-5 w-2 nb-15)	 		 22
TOTAL (all out, 76.2 overs)		294

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-58 2-137 3-141 4-177 5-199 6-246 7-266
8-289 9-291 10-294.
BOWLING: Vaas 23-1-76-2 (nb-8), Amerasinghe 12-1-62-1,
Thushara 12-0-72-2 (nb-5, w-2), Muralitharan 29.2-4-79-5 (nb-2).

SRI LANKA - 2ND INNINGS
M. Vandort run out (Taylor)	 	  1
M. Warnapura c Chattergoon b Taylor	  0
K. Sangakkara c Samuels b Powell	 14
M. Jayawardene b Edwards		 12
T. Samaraweera not out	 		 15
T. Dilshan b Taylor			 25
C. Silva not out	  		  5
Extras (lb5, w1)	  		  6
TOTAL (5 wkts; 18 overs)		 78

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-2 (Warnapura), 2-4 (Vandort), 3-32 (Jayawardene), 
4-32 (Sangakkara), 5-73 (Dilshan).
BOWLING: Powell 7-2-26-1; Taylor 6-0-22-2 (w1); Edwards 5-1-25-1.