Sri Lankan left-arm spinner Prabath Jayasuriya has damaged the 72-year-old document for the quickest to succeed in 50 wickets in Take a look at matches as a spinner throughout Sri Lanka vs Eire 2nd Take a look at in Galle.
Jayasuriya bought to the milestone after he picked up the Eire star batter Paul Stirling on day-5 of the Take a look at match.
The 31-year-old bought to the landmark in simply seven Exams and 13 innings. The document was beforehand held by West Indian spinner Alf Valentine who took eight Take a look at matches and 15 innings to attain the feat. Together with Jayasuriya former South African pacer, Vernon Philander has reached the milestone in the identical variety of video games.
Prabath Jayasuriya storms into the document books because the quickest 🏎️💨 Spinner and the quickest Sri Lankan to succeed in 50 Take a look at wickets,🔥 becoming a member of the ranks of the second-fastest gamers in Take a look at cricket historical past! 🏏🎉
Jayasuriya hit the 50-wicket mark in simply his seventh Take a look at to grab… pic.twitter.com/Jq6Ia2mZV0
— Sri Lanka Cricket 🇱🇰 (@OfficialSLC) April 28, 2023
Former Australia participant Charlie Turner holds the all-time document for the quickest to succeed in the 50-wickets in his sixth Take a look at and tenth innings.
Sri Lanka leads the two-match Take a look at sequence 1-0. Within the first Take a look at, Jayasuriya completed with a match haul of 10 wickets as Sri Lanka crushed Eire by an innings and 280 runs inside three days.
This was Sri Lanka’s largest victory margin in take a look at cricket, whereas Eire slumped to their fifth consecutive defeat since changing into a take a look at nation in 2018.
Captain Dimuth Karunaratne (179) and quantity three batsman Kusal Mendis (140) laid the inspiration for an enormous whole earlier than Dinesh Chandimal (102) and Sadeera Samarawickrama (104) smashed unbeaten lots of to consolidate their place.
Eire was skittled out for 143 of their first innings with left-arm spinner Jayasuriya (7-52) being the wrecker-in-chief.
Made to observe on, Eire managed 168 of their second innings with Ramesh Mendis (4-76) and Jayasuriya (3-56) claiming the majority of the wickets.