3rd Test Day 4 _ Highlights _ Sri Lanka Tour Of England _ 9th September 2024
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00:00Well, it is all set up perfectly for what should be the last day of the test match summer
00:12for England.
00:13Light and weather permitting.
00:16The lights are on, it is marginal, but they are out there and we have a start on time.
00:21Sri Lanka need 125, England need 9 wickets.
00:25First ball, day four.
00:35Punched nicely down the ground, that is the shortest hit at the oval.
00:43And that should be four.
00:48Another short ball.
00:49And Bashir, what a catch.
00:50Diving to his left.
00:51England needed a bit of magic.
00:52Shoaib Bashir has provided it.
00:58Yeah, we are talking about technical issues.
01:04These are the moments that turn games and could this be a crucial, crucial catch that
01:10turns the tide a little bit England's way.
01:13Fully outstretched, both hands to it, he is a tall man.
01:18And brilliantly caught.
01:23Angelo Matthews, Sri Lanka's most experienced test match player in this game.
01:44Lovely shot and the ball travelling too quickly for Shoaib Bashir who does his best to get
01:51to it but can't.
01:53It is a poor ball, too short.
02:06Good batting from Angelo Matthews, knew exactly where the field was then and got himself into
02:11a position to...
02:16Glove on it from Smith, so that might stop it going all the way to the fence, it doesn't,
02:24no.
02:26Edged away and Bashir has been brought up so that will be four.
02:31One hundred and sixty-six for two, fifty-three more needed.
02:41Blashed away and that's going to be four.
02:45So Sri Lanka's runs to win, dropped below fifty for the first time, forty-seven more.
02:55Off the back foot, beautiful shot.
02:58That is a highly accomplished hundred from Nisanker.
03:03They're going to come back for three comfortably, he'll go to a hundred and one.
03:08What a special time to do it for your team and in these conditions, my goodness he's
03:13played well.
03:15Yeah, that is a fantastic innings.
03:24Smoked away, leg side and Duckett just watches it sail over his head for six.
03:30They're going to try and do this quickly.
03:36Fabulous stroke, Stone didn't get it quite high enough.
03:44He's got that down to third man, it might be out, Bashir, no can't get there.
03:48He's taken a blinder already today but he never ever looked like he was getting close
03:53to be comfortable to get underneath that.
03:59He does and he belts it into the crowd.
04:05That's his second six, excellent batting from Pathan Nisanker, he played it superbly.
04:21There is that sweep, England haven't got a man out there.
04:25Matthews helps himself to a boundary, eleven needed for Sri Lanka.
04:36And when you look at shots like that Nasser, you understand why the questions and the raised
04:40eyebrows in terms of players like this.
04:50Just a back cut past backward point and it is absolutely fitting that Pathan Nisanker
04:56scores the winning run.
04:59A big beaming smile on his face and probably all of Sri Lanka here at the Oval and back
05:07home because that is just their fourth win in England in 21 test matches and that is
05:15some fight back win as well.
05:17And they were, remember, 261-3 in their first innings, Sri Lanka have fought back and they
05:25win this final test match.
05:28Well it was the clinical, the perfect run chase, Karunaratne went early, Kusumendis
05:34went today, Angelo Matthews came and steadied the ship and Pathan Nisanker, quite brilliant,
05:4227th at better than a runner ball, 219-2 in just 40 overs and three balls.
05:50A huge praise for the Sri Lankan batters, they just didn't give the England bowling
05:56tack a sniff, Chris Woates took a wicket last night, Kasatkinson today but no one else had
06:03much of an effect and Sri Lanka cruised home with that 219-2, a hugely deserved test match
06:11victory.
06:17So Sri Lanka won the toss, it was cloudy, it was grey, the lights were on, they inserted
06:21England, England made 325 thanks to a brilliant 150 from Olly Pope, Sri Lanka 263, England
06:29in their second innings, that was where the game turned, 156 all out in just 34 overs,
06:37Kamara with 4 for 21 and they chased it comfortably with 8 wickets in hand, Pathan Nisanker 127
06:45not out, Sri Lanka win by 8 wickets.
06:48So the captain will now join his colleagues who have already received their Rothesay winners
06:53medals after the three match series, England winning by two matches to one, the Rothesay
07:00Test Series winners, England.