Anderson ten guides England to innings victory
[caption id="attachment_3574" align="alignnone" width="580"] England beat Sri Lanka by an innings and 88 runs. Image Source: File Pic[/caption]
Internet Desk: James Anderson claimed his second five-wicket haul in two days as England swept to an innings-and-88-run win over Sri Lanka in three days at Headingley.
He took 5-29 to hurry the tourists out for 119 and finish with match figures of 10-45 in the summer's first Test. Despite a rain delay of almost three hours, England wrapped up victory shortly after tea. Steven Finn grabbed 3-26, while Kusal Mendis top-scored with 53 for an outclassed Sri Lanka side. With only 162.4 overs bowled, it was the 13th shortest Test in history. A couple of dropped catches aside, England can take great pleasure from the ruthless manner in which they dismantled a team that won on their last trip to Leeds in 2014. Sri Lanka's prospects, by contrast, look bleak, and they will be hoping for distinctly less seamer-friendly conditions when the second Test of the three-match series in Durham starts on Friday. James Anderson, inevitably, was at the heart of the carnage. His newly discovered passion for Headingley's seam and swing delivered him second-innings figures of 5 for 29 in 12.3 overs. It was the third ten-wicket haul of his 114-Test career, and his first outside of Trent Bridge, as he sealed match figures of 10 for 45 by plucking out Nuwan Pradeep's middle stump for a duck. Six of those scalps had come ball-in-glove with Jonny Bairstow, who capped his Man-of-the-Match century with nine catches behind the stumps - equalling the record for the most in a Test in England.
03 Comments
Karla Gleichauf
12 May 2017 at 05:28 pm
On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment
M Shyamalan
12 May 2017 at 05:28 pm
On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment
Liz Montano
12 May 2017 at 05:28 pm
On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment