1st Time In 147 Years: Sri Lanka Star Kamindu Mendis Models World File. Not Even Sunil Gavaskar Or Don Bradman Achieved It

The success story of Kamindu Mendis since he made his Verify debut continues. The Sri Lanka star remained unbeaten on 51 on the first day of the second Verify in opposition to New Zealand in Galle on Thursday and in doing so he set a model new world doc. The 25-year-old star is now the first batter inside the 147 yr historic previous of Verify cricket to achieve a fifty-plus score in each of his first eight Assessments since debut. Sooner than him, Pakistan’s Shaud Shakeel held the doc as he had fifty-plus score is each of the first seven Assessments that he carried out. Earlier, India’s Sunil Gavaskar (6) collectively held the doc with three others.

50+ scores in most successive Assessments from debut

8 – Kamindu Mendis*

7 – Saud Shakeel

6 – Bert Sutcliffe, Saeed Ahmed, Basil Butcher and Sunil Gavaskar

Dinesh Chandimal’s century in Galle powered Sri Lanka to 306-3 at stumps on Thursday’s opening day of the second Verify in opposition to New Zealand.

The left-hander was bowled by Glenn Phillips inside the final session after hitting 15 boundaries in his knock of 116 — his sixth Verify century on the picturesque venue and his sixteenth normal.

Angelo Mathews (78) and Kamindu Mendis (51) will resume for the hosts on the second day after every hitting half-centuries.

For Kamindu it was a world doc eighth consecutive fifty given that 25-year-old’s debut in opposition to Australia on the similar venue two years up to now.

Mathews reached his private milestone by becoming solely the sixth cricketer to make 2,000 Verify runs at a single venue — a select group that options the likes of Joe Root and Graham Gooch — on the notoriously bowler-friendly Galle pitch.

Chandimal made his ton with a single off Kiwi spinner Mitchell Santner in a knock that capitalised on unfastened deliveries.

He powered forwards after the highest of his 122-run stand with Dimuth Karunaratne, who was run out on 46 and walked once more to the pavilion fuming after a miscommunication between the pair.

With AFP inputs