Rashid stars as SL collapse
Sri Lanka threw away a decent position in the final Test against England on Saturday, collapsing from 183 for 2 at tea to 240 all out as Adil Rashid and Ben Stokes skittled the hosts in Colombo.
At the close of a rollercoaster second day England were three without loss after four overs when bad light stopped play, 99 runs ahead with a 3-0 whitewash in their sights.
"We came out after tea, had the belief, had the mindset and things just changed," said Rashid, who finished the innings with 5-49.
"It worked out perfectly, Stokesy at one end bowling nice and aggressive and me at the other end mixing it up, bowling my variations," he added, after Stokes collected 3-30.
In the opening session Sri Lanka's bowlers had wrapped up England's first innings for 336 within half an hour, the visitors losing their final three wickets for just 24 runs.
Left-arm wrist spinner Lakshan Sandakan was the pick of the Sri Lankan bowlers, taking 5-95 while finger spinners Dilruwan Perera and Malinda Pushpakumara took the other five between them.
SCORES IN BRIEF
ENGLAND: First innings 336 all out (Bairstow 110, Root 46, Stokes 57, Moeen 33; Malinda 2-64, Sandakan 5-95, Perera 3-113)
SRI LANKA: First innings 240 all out (Karunaratne 83, Dhananjaya 73; Rashid 5-49, Stokes 3-30)
England: Second innings 3 for no loss
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