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Zimbabwe146;s humiliation complete

Sri Lanka completed a Test and one-day international whitewash over Zimbabwe when they won the second cricket Test match at Queens Sports Cl...

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Sri Lanka completed a Test and one-day international whitewash over Zimbabwe when they won the second cricket Test match at Queens Sports Club here today by an innings and 254 runs.

This was marginally better than their victory in Harare last week when the margin was an innings and 240 runs. Sri Lanka earlier won the one-day series 5-0.

Zimbabwe were bowled out for 228 in their first innings and 231 in the second. Sri Lanka bludgeoned the young Zimbabweans with 713 before declaring with only three wickets down.

Sri Lanka captain Marvan Atapattu was named man of the series and Kumar Sangakkara man of the match. These two had put on 438 runs for the second wicket. Muttiah Muralitharan took his career total of wickets to 527 by capturing four Zimbabweans. This leaves him 10 ahead of Shane Warne, who will begin to overhaul him during the two Tests Australia play against Zimbabwe in the next three weeks.

BRIEF SCORES
Zimbabwe: 228 and 231 B Taylor 61, D Ebrahim 42, T Panyangara 40 n.o.; M Muralitharan 4/79 vs Sri Lanka: 713 for 3 decl

 

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