A superb century from captain Jayawardene props up Sri Lanka.

Great job from the captain. It is a long time he had been in a good form and this is the time for it. Now a days Srilanka is getting worst. They have talented players but still they are the ones to have minus point. Hope Srilanka will have this in their safe hands.

well I was not aware of this series before this discussion. Surely,as a captain as a senior player,Jayawardene had played a good innings to save his team from getting all out for low score. 289 is not a big total, but as it is test match, they can make it up in next innings. But England batting is also good, so an interesting match in the progress.

Looks like you are a passionate cricket follower. Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangkarra and Sanath Jayasuriya were great Lankan batsmen who bought them so much success over the years. The current Sri Lankan team is in transition and is struggling quite a lot.

Good old test cricket at its best, that's why i love this format of the game most.The problem with England is that they are not ready to come out of their comfort zones in subcontinent conditions.Against India in 2008 and Pakistan recently same thing happened.They let the opposition get off the hook easily after being in commanding positions, don't we remember the famous India victory on a rank turner when England could not defend mammoth score of 387.This time they are playing against a team like Srilanka who are strong at home ,but overall they have been poor test team,they have not won a series outside subcontinent ever and have failed to win a single test in Australia and India,still England made the same mistakes.Like you mentioned correctly ,England has to bat last on this pitch, so they have to look for a cushion of like 50 runs as lead.English batsman follow conventional test cricket methods ,that is they play the ball on its merit,which does not work much in subcontinent.When ball turns you have to attack because you dont know which one will turn from rough and become unplayable.If you keep defending its likely that you will make an error no matter how good your technique is.Just like the fear of swing confuse subcontinent batsman,same way fear of spin confuses English batsman ,the pitch on which match is going on, it does not have any demons , not a single ball has turned alarmingly.So if English batsman play attacking cricket they can surpass Srilankan score.KP is the main guy for England,they need a big one from him.

Hello friend, oh a great match. Jayawardene scored 180. And srilanka scored 318 in first innigs. After that they bowl well and manage england to only 193 runs. There after england hit back again and now srilanka is only 84 lost of 5 wickets. Surely we will see result. And a great match. Nice to meet you. Hope to see you again. Have a nice day.

He is a special player for the Sri Lankans with Sangakkara as they have been scoring in bulk for the team.It was a valued effort from him to score 168 in a match in which the second highest is 27 by chandimal and he made this score with the help from panesar and anderson as panesar dropped him twice which were a dolly and anderson dropped him off his own bowling but still he is going strong and would look to take his team beyond 300 and would also take his score beyond 200. In this match he has achieved a record of scoring 2000+ runs in two grounds as he have scored 2697 in Colombo and 2100 in galle.He is the only one to do so,and this shows how good he is at home.Tomorrow anderson and broad would be looking to clear the tail of sri lanka and allout them as quickly as possible.

Thanks for the news Mahela Jayawardene is recently in tremendous form as his score speaks for him in the ongoing test series against England at Galle.