Sri Lanka’s Sonal Dinusha plays a shot during the fifth day of the second Test cricket match between India and Sri Lanka, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (PTI)
The 25-year-old left-hander remained unbeaten on 133 in Sri Lanka’s second innings as the hosts forced a draw in the second Test at the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo on Thursday. India still won the two-match series 1-0 after their victory in Galle. Dinusha scored 176 runs through sweep shots across the series, according to Cricinfo. The previous record was held by England’s Joe Root, who scored 168 sweep-shot runs against Sri Lanka in 2021. He added 112 runs for the seventh wicket with Keshara Nuwantha, who scored 46, as the pair frustrated India’s bowlers on the final day. Sri Lanka resumed Day 5 at 229/6 and continued batting until both teams agreed to end the match with the score at 429/9. Sri Lanka finished with an overall lead of 216 runs. 6 or lower.
Dinusha also became only the sixth batter in Test history to score three centuries in a series while batting at No. He is the first Sri Lankan to achieve that feat and the first player to do it in a two-match Test series. With his two centuries in Colombo, Dinusha also became only the fifth batter to score hundreds in both innings of a Test while batting at No. Three of the previous four instances were also by Sri Lankan batters.
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