Lanka bowlers sparkle

BULAWAYO (ZIMBABWE), Nov 19: A personal best six wickets for 60 runs by Promodaya Wickramasinghe enabled Sri Lanka bowl Zimbabwe out for 286 in their first innings of the first Test today.Wickramasinghe improved on his previous best of 6-103 against Pakistan, yet it was only the third time in Tests he has achieved or exceeded a five-wickets haul.

Scoreboard
Zimbabwe (1st innings, overnight 256-8): G Flower c Arnold b Wickremasinghe 17, G Rennie lbw b Wickremasinghe 16, M Goodwin c Jayasuriya b Wickremasinghe 61, N Johnson c Arnold b Vaas 17, A Flower c Muralitharan b Wickremasinghe 86, A Campbell run out 0, G Whittall run out 11, G Brent c Jayawardena b Muralitharan 0, B Strang c Kaluwitharana b Wickremasinghe 41, A Whittall c Kaluwitharana b Wickremasinghe 8, H Olonga not out 1; Extras: 28
Total (all out) 286.
Fall of wickets: 1-37, 2-38, 3-68, 4-167, 5-167, 7-214, 8-250, 9-275
Bowling: Vaas 23-3-88-1, Gallage 14-1-53-0, Wickremasinghe 21.2-6-60-6,Muralitharan 20-3-61-1, Jayasuriya 7-1-11-0.