Cricket: Sri Lanka fall to an inspired Donald

Sri Lanka 303 & 93-7; South Africa 200

A DRAMATIC collapse by Sri Lanka left them thankful for their 103-run first innings lead on the third day of the second Test against South Africa at Centurion Park yesterday.

With the Allan Donald in inspired form, Sri Lanka were 42 for 6 before Aravinda de Silva, who made 41, and Pramodya Wickramasinghe put on 43 for the seventh wicket.

Four of the first seven batsmen were out for nought and there were two run-outs as the match underwent a remarkable change.

With Muttiah Muralitharan having taken 5 for 63, Sri Lanka were in control of the match when they started their second innings after tea, but the turnaround started when Donald bowled Sanath Jayasuriya to become the first South African and 33rd bowler in history to take 200 Test wickets.

With his next ball Donald had Roshan Mahanama lbw. He followed up by having Marvan Atapattu caught behind.

Third day; Sri Lanka won toss

SRI LANKA - First Innings 303 (A Ranatunga 73, H P Tillakaratne 55, R S Mahanama 50).

SOUTH AFRICA - First Innings

(Overnight: 75 for 3)

D J Cullinan c Wickramasinghe b Jayasuriya 103

*W J Cronje st Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan 10

J H Kallis c Kaluwitharana b Wickramasinghe 12

S M Pollock b Muralitharan 1

M V Boucher c Jayasuriya b Muralitharan 13

A A Donald b Muralitharan 6

P R Adams c and b Jayasuriya 12

M Ntini not out 2

Extras (b1, lb6, w6, nb8) 21

Total (78 overs) 200

Fall (cont): 6-137, 7-170, 8-182, 9-186.

Bowling: Pushpakumara 16-2-55-1; Zoysa 12-2-29-1; Wickramasinghe 15-2- 36-1; Muralitharan 30-8-63-5; Jayasuriya 5-2-10-2.

SRI LANKA - Second Innings

S T Jaysuriya b Donald 16

M S Atapattu c Boucher b Donald 7

R S Mahanama lbw b Donald 0

P A de Silva run out 41

*A Ranatunga c Boucher b Cronje 0

H P Tillakaratne c sub b Cronje 0

R S Kaluwitharana run out 0

G P Wickramasinghe not out 16

D N T Zoysa not out 6

Extras (lb4, nb3) 7

Total (for 7, 35 overs) 93

Fall: 1-19, 2-19, 3-40, 4-40, 5-42, 6-42, 7-85.

To bat: K R Pushpakumara, M Muralitharan.

Bowling: Donald 10-2-45-3; Ntini 6-2-13-0; Kallis 7-3-12-0; Cronje 8- 3-13-2; Adams 4-1-6-0.

Umpires: R E Koertzen and Javed Akhtar