Dinesh Chandimal posts maiden double century and debutant Prabhat Jayasuriya a12-wicket haul
11 July 2022 - 17:32Dinesh Chandimal celebrates after posting 200. Picture: BUDDHIKA WEERASINGHE/GETTY IMAGES
Chandimal provided the bedrock with a career-best 206 not out, smashing 16 fours and five sixes in the first double hundred by a Sri Lanka batter against Australia. Jayasuriya sent back Marnus Labuschagne and then dismissed Cameron Green and Mitchell Starc in the same over to effectively seal the match in Sri Lanka’s favour.
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