Rain in Galle, likely to delay start of third day's play

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Rain continues in Galle, due to which the start of the third day of the Test match between Pakistan and Sri Lanka is likely to be delayed.

The first and second day of the Galle Test were also affected by rain.

It should be noted that despite losing early wickets, the Sri Lankan team posted a total of 312 on the board in the first innings.

Dhananjaya de Silva was the top scorer for the host team with 122 runs.

Sri Lanka’s Angelo Mathews scored 64 and Sudira Samarawakarma scored 36 runs.

For Pakistan, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Naseem Shah and Abrar Ahmed took 3 wickets each while Agha Salman dismissed one player.

5 players of the national team returned to the pavilion for 101 runs, but Agha Salman and Saud Shakeel stood firm and Pakistan scored 221 runs for the loss of 5 wickets at the end of the second day.

Agha Salman and Saud Shakeel will start the third day’s play with 61 and 69 runs respectively, with Pakistan needing 91 more runs to erase Sri Lanka’s first innings lead.

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