Bonner and Da Silva continue the fight until the last day

ICC World Championships 2021/22

Day 4, Test 1: Sri Lanka 386 and 191-4 December; West India 230 and 52-6

Place: Gallen International Stadium

Toss: Sri Lanka won the throw and was selected as the club

Scoreboard: https://www.windiescricket.com/matches/209557/

West India was left with the difficult task of rescuing the first test match as it lost six seconds from the strains on the fourth day. The guests were asked to make a win of 348 and they ran into huge difficulties in the 12th round 18-6. Joshua Da Silva then joined Nkrumah Bonner and the couple has been beating together for over an hour so far. Bonner decided on the second to last day 18 not out of 47 balls and Da Silva 15 not out of 51 balls before the bad light brought the game of the day early. They take the fight to the last day.

Bonner remained hopeful that he would be able to do the job. “It’s up to Josh, me and the other beaters to come try to get the job done. We have about 540 balls (90 substitutions) to hit tomorrow. We want to play every ball according to its merits and be vigilant against bowlers. We have to spend time, ”he said.

Earlier, the game started after a rain delay, with West India adding five runs to the night’s score before Sri Lanka grabbed the final goal when left-hand spinner Praveen Jayawickrama dismissed Shannon Gabriel. Thus, Sri Lanka led the first batch with 156 lead.

West India turned to the spinners early, and Rahkeem Cornwall (2-60) and Jomel Warrican (2-42) got an early score before the result was 40. After lunch, Angelo Mathews joined Captain Dimuth Karunaratne in the crunch and they added 123-. engages in a third wicket collaboration. Karunaratne followed his first inning with 147 and recorded 83,104 balls. Mathews scored 69 off 84 balls, two of which were six.

Faced with the goal of a challenging fourth inning, the West Indies collapsed in the pursuit at the start of the innings. Off-spinner Ramesh Mendis (4-17) made the hat trick when he dismissed Kyle Mayers and Jason Holder dismissed consecutive balls in the 12th inning. Bonner and Da Silva made sure the punches would no longer fall on the same day as they entered into an unbeatable 34-series partnership before a bad light forced the referees to call that day.

The game will resume on the fifth and final day at 9:45 a.m. local time (12:15 a.m. Thursday in the Caribbean / 11:15 p.m. Wednesday in Jamaica time).