Sri Lanka's indomitable lions created history on English soil on a typically balmy, rainy, heady and intoxicating Tuesday evening by picking up the last English wicket with just one ball to spare of the final over of an eventful and tumultuous Headingley test match.........
The rampaging Lankan test team ably and creditably led by all rounder Angelo Matthews thus notched up the rare and much sought after distinction of bettering or rather humbling the much hyped English test team by a whopping hundred (100) run margin in the second and final test of a two test series that culminated in a memorable and exceedingly rare "away" series win.........
Mercurial and somewhat erratic speedster Dhammika Prasad was the main architect of a Lankan test win on English soil for the first time in eight years with a second innings haul of five wickets for 50 runs that sent the much vaunted English batting line up spiralling towards it's ultimate doom........
Matthew's valiant warriors would have won the match much earlier but were kept at bay by the doughty heroics of English all rounder Moeen Ali who manfully battled for over six and a half hours to register his maiden test century (108 not out) and his equally heroic partner in arms England number 11 James Anderson who faced 55 odd deliveries without notching up a single run but couldn't keep out the penultimate ball of the series at aby as he gloved a rising ball from Shaminda Eranga to the strategically placed leg gully fielder...........
England who were set a target of 350 to win the series were thus bowled out for 249 an even 100 runs short of the ultimate Sri Lankan total as Sri Lanka notched up their third and most memorable test win on English soil after similar though far less inspiring wins at the Oval in 1998 and Trent Bridge in 2006.........
This latest series loss coming in the wake of an Ashes whitewash in Australia has once again set the cat amongst the pigeons with the English media baying for captain Alastair Cook's head as well as thorough revamping of the much vaunted English batting line up before the first India-England test match gets underway on July 9, 2014..........
The rampaging Lankan test team ably and creditably led by all rounder Angelo Matthews thus notched up the rare and much sought after distinction of bettering or rather humbling the much hyped English test team by a whopping hundred (100) run margin in the second and final test of a two test series that culminated in a memorable and exceedingly rare "away" series win.........
Mercurial and somewhat erratic speedster Dhammika Prasad was the main architect of a Lankan test win on English soil for the first time in eight years with a second innings haul of five wickets for 50 runs that sent the much vaunted English batting line up spiralling towards it's ultimate doom........
Matthew's valiant warriors would have won the match much earlier but were kept at bay by the doughty heroics of English all rounder Moeen Ali who manfully battled for over six and a half hours to register his maiden test century (108 not out) and his equally heroic partner in arms England number 11 James Anderson who faced 55 odd deliveries without notching up a single run but couldn't keep out the penultimate ball of the series at aby as he gloved a rising ball from Shaminda Eranga to the strategically placed leg gully fielder...........
England who were set a target of 350 to win the series were thus bowled out for 249 an even 100 runs short of the ultimate Sri Lankan total as Sri Lanka notched up their third and most memorable test win on English soil after similar though far less inspiring wins at the Oval in 1998 and Trent Bridge in 2006.........
This latest series loss coming in the wake of an Ashes whitewash in Australia has once again set the cat amongst the pigeons with the English media baying for captain Alastair Cook's head as well as thorough revamping of the much vaunted English batting line up before the first India-England test match gets underway on July 9, 2014..........
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