{"id":751365,"date":"2026-08-27T11:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751365\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T11:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:54:10","slug":"dinushas-century-helps-sri-lanka-draw-colombo-test-india-win-series-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751365\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinusha&#8217;s century helps Sri Lanka draw Colombo Test; India win series 1-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SL 383-8 (133 ovs) f\/o &amp; 290 vs India 503-9 | <a href=\"https:\/\/imsports.rediff.com\/score\/in_asa_10859493.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SCORECARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A minimum of 40 overs remaining on the final day. India&#8217;s bowlers, especially the spinners, have looked quite flat despite the pitch offering some sharp turn and bounce.<\/p>\n<p>Prasidh continues with the ball and India will hope for a breakthrough with 10 minutes left for the tea break.<\/p>\n<p>Kumara shows great resolve to keep out an entire over from Prasidh.<\/p>\n<p>Having imposed the follow-on after bowling 89.4 overs in the first innings, the Indian bowlers have now sent down 132 overs.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder they are looking exhausted, even the close fielders have now gone silent.<\/p>\n<p>Dinusha toying with the field. He reverse sweeps Jain from outside the line of leg stump for two runs to deep point.<\/p>\n<p>Dinusha repeats the shot but this time Prasidh swoops in quickly from thirdman but the throw is a wild one, way away from the stumps. Kumara has to sprint the last few yards before he puts in the dive to make his crease.<\/p>\n<p>Dinusha into the 90s, closing in on his second century of the match.<\/p>\n<p>The Indians are all laughing as Kumara is denied the assistance of the physio by the umpires.<\/p>\n<p>Dinusha sweeps Jain comfortably past short fine leg for a four to take his score to 97 with two balls left for the tea break.<\/p>\n<p>He paddles the fifth ball and decides rightly against the quick single to Siraj at short fine leg.<\/p>\n<p>He gets the single off the last ball placing it fine of Siraj at short fine leg.<\/p>\n<p>Dinusha finishes unbeaten on 98 to guide Sri Lanka to 383\/8 in 133 overs at the tea break on Day 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SL 383-8 (133 ovs) f\/o &amp; 290 vs India 503-9 | SCORECARD A minimum of 40 overs remaining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,40950,913,216111,175264,4497,217016,216110,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-751365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-indian-cricket-news","tag-latest-news","tag-live-commentary","tag-live-cricket-scores","tag-live-updates","tag-match-scores","tag-rediff","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}