Thursday, November 26, 2009

Sreesanth puts India on the threshold of victory

STAFF WRITER 16:59 HRS IST

Amlan Chakraborty

Kanpur, Nov 26 (PTI)
S Sreesanth marked his return to international cricket with a devastating display of seam bowling to put India on the threshhold of a remarkable victory in the second cricket Test against a hapless Sri Lanka here today.

Sreesanth, staging a comeback after being in the wilderness for close to 18 months, snatched 5 for 75 in Sri Lanka's first innings and then drew first blood in the second innings leave the islanders in complete disarray.

With Sreesanth breathing fire, Sri Lanka's feeble first innings riposte wilted for 229, a whopping 413 runs behind the hosts' massive first innings total of 642. This was also India's highest first innings lead over the Lankans.

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