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ENG vs SL 1st Test Match:  The first match of the three-match Test series between England and Sri Lanka is being played at the Old Trafford Stadium in Manchester. When the second day of this match ended, the host England had scored 259 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in their first innings and they had gained a lead of 23 runs on the basis of the first innings. On the second day of the match, Harry Brook scored a brilliant 56-run innings from the bat for England, but he was bowled by Sri Lankan team's left-arm spin bowler Prabhat Jayasuriya on such a ball that all the players present on the field along with Brook were surprised.

Fans remembered Virat Kohli after seeing Brooke out

Harry Brook was batting very well on the second day of the Manchester Test match, in which he scored 56 runs in 72 balls. After this, when Brook played the 73rd ball of his innings, he completely failed to understand it and the ball hit the wicket directly. Prabhat Jayasuriya bowled this ball on the line of the middle stump, on which Brook tried to defend it by coming in the line of the ball and going inside the crease, but after falling on the pitch, the ball came out with speed and hit the off stump. After being bowled, Brook kept looking at the pitch in surprise, after which the fans also remembered Kohli's bowling.In fact, in 2018, when the Indian team was on a tour of England, in the third match of the ODI series, Adil Rashid bowled a similar ball to Virat Kohli, which came out with speed after falling on the pitch and hit the off stump. Kohli was surprised after getting out on this ball.

Jamie Smith handled the England innings

On the second day of the first test match against Sri Lanka, England lost half of its team at a score of 187 in its first innings. From here, wicketkeeper batsman Jamie Smith handled the innings from one end and played a vital role in giving the team a lead over Sri Lanka's first innings score. At the end of the second day's play, Jamie Smith was playing after scoring 72 runs, while Gus Atkinson was unbeaten after scoring 4 runs. For Sri Lanka, Asitha Fernando took 3 wickets, Prabhat Jayasuriya took 2 wickets while Vishwa Fernando took one wicket.

 

 

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