Shaheen Afridi and Dinesh Chandimal star on day-2 Pakistan Vs Sri Lanka 2nd test.

Shaheen Afridi mobbed by his teammates after picking up a wicket

Stumps

2nd test, ICC World Test Championship at Karachi, Dec 19-23 2019

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  Pakistan

  191 & 57/0 * (14 oz)
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  Sri Lanka                                                         271

Day 2: Pakistan trail by 23 runs with 10 wickets remaining

Pakistan 191 and 57 for 0 (Abid 32*, Masood 21*) trail Sri Lanka 271 (Chandimal 74, Dilruwan 48, Afridi 5-77. Abbas 4-55) by 23 runs

On a day that took steps to reflect the content of its antecedent in the primary hour, Sri Lanka dove in and ripped at their approach to, and afterward well past, Pakistan's first innings all out. The lead of 80 came politeness lower-request commitments that will have baffled Pakistan no closure, with Dinesh Chandimal integrating the innings as Sri Lanka held off a flooding Pakistan pace assault. The home side, as far as it matters for them, did all around ok to guarantee there wasn't any phlebotomy in the dubious last hour the openers needed to manage, as Shan Masood and Abid Ali decreased the shortage to 23 by stumps.

From 80 for 5, associations of 67, 37, 51 and 36 broadened Sri Lanka's innings well into the third session, Dhananjaya de Silva and Chandimal denying Pakistan of the force they had produced in an opening hour of antagonistic quick bowling. Nightwatchman Lasith Embuldeniya was dropped promptly in the day but fell not long after in a strange endeavor to trudge clear Mohammad Abbas, while Shaheen Afridi - who got his first five-for in Quite a while - required no such largesse from Angelo Mathews, getting one to stimulate the batsman's inside edge through to the guardian.

Pakistan may well have felt this was their opportunity to leave away with a lead, however quick counterattacking - and an inadequate spell from a certainty sapped Yasir Shah - poured water over those plans. At the point when de Silva walked down the wrinkle to hang Yasir over his head, lining it up with a back-foot punch through the spread, the shackles were broken. Yasir was not able to choose either length, line or pace, with both batsmen exploiting the irregularity as Sri Lanka approached 150.

The leap forward came on account of Afridi, with de Silva incapable to jump over a short-pitched conveyance and sending it straight down fine leg's throat. Be that as it may, the wicket did little to stem the progression of runs before lunch, and at this point, even Niroshan Dickwella, who had spent too much of karma in his first half-hour at the wrinkle, was rising up out of his shell. At that point Abbas would castle him with maybe the wad of the day, beating him within edge with an internal seaming conveyance that cut the highest point of off, and at 182 for 7, with Sri Lanka nine shy of Pakistan's first-innings all out, it appeared this would turn into a second-innings shootout.

Pakistan was liable for letting the game float for enormous spells, and the eighth-wicket organization at one point scored at about 4.50 runs per over. Dilruwan Perera was impeccably open to staying with Chandimal as Sri Lanka raised the 200 and afterward past, the feature being Chandimal hitting Naseem Shah for three fours of every an over.

Dinesh Chandimal struck a crucial fifty 

When Chandimal fell, Dilruwan assumed control over the mantle. Pakistan appropriately spread the field for him; for all intents and purposes beseeching him to take a solitary and turn the strike over. In spite of this, Dilruwan kept on finding the limit, in spite of seven defenders positioned in the profound at most focuses during his ninth-wicket remain with Vishwa Fernando. Haris Sohail may have been fruitful disposing of Chandimal, however, when they attempted his periodic left-arm turn against Dilruwan, he trucked him down the ground for a six off the main chunk of his spell.

Tea traveled every which way, and Sri Lanka moved past 250 and kept on walking on. It took the arrival of Afridi to at last tidy Dilruwan up two runs short of a merited 50 years, and the left-arm speedy expelled No. 11 Lahiru Kumara several balls later to finish what had seemed an endless inning. It was the first occasion when he had taken five wickets in an innings, however for Pakistan's most steady quick bowler in the course of the last couple of visits, you feel sure there is a whole other world to follow. At that stage, Sri Lanka strolled into the evolving room, likely certain it was their day, perhaps their Test coordinate, and the last hour spoke to a chance to slam that point further home. Yet, Pakistan turned out decided not to obstruct their way through the fourteen overs they confronted, the two openers taking the assault to the quicks directly from the beginning. Abid Ali's certainty wasn't astounding, given his structure, and Shan Masood didn't avoid putting the bat on the ball either and got off to a beginning suggestive of the structure he showed on Pakistan's voyage through South Africa toward the beginning of the year when he recovered his place in the side.

Sri Lanka went to Embuldeniya inside five overs and keeping in mind that he got the show on the road to turn, there were no real possibilities. The 50 organization came up before the day's end, and when the light at long last blurred, Pakistan was a simple 23 flees from leveling the scores. The Test match might be equally balanced, however, the proof of the last half-session recommends Sri Lanka's fourth-innings pursue will be anything besides normal.

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