Sri Lanka’s Dhananjaya de Silva has joined a rare club of players after getting out hit-wicket for the second time in his career. Dhananjaya got out in one of the most bizarre manner as his attempted ball clearance with bat ended up dislodging the bails. The 30-year-old joined former Sri Lankan cricketer Romesh Kaluwitharana by becoming second player to be dismissed as hit-wicket in Tests for Sri Lanka.
It was the Day 2 of the first Test match between West Indies and Sri Lanka when the chaotic incident took place. In the first session, the score was 281/3 as Shannon Gabriel came to bowl. On the fourth ball of the over, Dhananjaya was batting on 61 was surprised as the defensive shot off a short resulted in the ball going towards the stumps. The Sri Lankan batter tried to clear the ball with bat, unfortunately the bat hit the top of the bails.
The personal catastrophe was evident on the pitch for the batting all-rounder as he couldn’t hide his disappointment walking back to the crease. The hit-wicket ended the 111- run stand with captain Dimuth Karunaratne for the fourth wicket. Karunaratne went on to score 147 before he was dismissed by Roston Chase who took a fifer.
Sri Lanka went on to score 386 in their first innings with Pathum Nissanka and Dinesh Chandimal also contributing 56 and 45 runs respectively. In response, West Indies got off to a worse possible start as they ended day two on 113/6 with Ramesh Mendis picking up three wickets.
