Sri Lankans Celebrate in 1st Test

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Sri Lanka beat West Indies by 121 runs late on the fifth and final day of the first Digicel Test match at the Guyana National Stadium on Wednesday.

 

Set 437 runs to win, West Indies were bowled out for 315 with six overs and four balls remaining in the match.

 

The result gave Sri Lanka an unbeatable 1-0 lead in the two-match series and their first ever Test win in the Caribbean.

 

SCORES:

 

SRI LANKA 476-8 declared (Mahela Jayawardene 136, Malinda Warnapura 120, Chaminda Vaas 54 not out, Michael Vandort 52, Kumar Sangakkara 50, Prasanna Jayawardene 21; Jerome Taylor 4-110, Chris Gayle 2-66) and 240-7 dec’d (Malinda Warnapura 62, Thilan Samaraweera 56 not out, Mahela Jayawardene 33, Michael Vandort 24, Kumar Sangakkara 21; Sulieman Benn 3-59, Dwayne Bravo 2-54).

 

WEST INDIES 280 (Ramnaresh Sarwan 80, Denesh Ramdin 38, Ryan Hinds 37, Sulieman Benn 28, Jerome Taylor 27 not out, Shivnarine Chanderpaul 23; Chaminda Vaas 3-48, Thilan Thushara 3-59, Muttiah Muralitharan 3-112) and 315 (Dwayne Bravo 83, Ramnaresh Sarwan 72, Chris Gayle 51 not out; Chaminda Vaas 5-61, Muttiah Muralitharan 3-112).

 

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