21 July,2010 01:39 PM IST | | Agencies
Sri Lanka enforced a follow-on after bowling out India for 276 runs in the first innings on the fourth day of the first cricket Test at the Galle International Stadium here Wednesday.
Resuming at overnight score of 140 for three, India could add only 136 runs and lost seven wickets in the first session. Virender Sehwag was the top scorer with 109 while Yuvraj Singh made 52.
World bowling record holder Muttiah Muralitharan, who retires after this match, finished with 5-63 to take his career tally to 797 Test wickets.
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Muralitharan, 38, the world's leading wicket-taker who retires after this Test, followed up the dismissal of star batsman Sachin Tendulkar on Tuesday with two more crucial blows.
The off-spinner broke a 74-run stand for the sixth wicket between Yuvraj Singh and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (33) by bowling the Indian captain with a ball that turned in sharply.
Muralitharan struck again in his next over, forcing Yuvraj (52) to edge a catch to first slip and claim his 795th wicket.
Left-arm spinner Rangana Herath had Harbhajan Singh stumped on two to leave the hosts on top in the first match of the three-Test series.
India lost Virender Sehwag and Venkatsai Laxman to reckless batting within the first hour of play to slip from their overnight total of 140-3 to 178-5.
Sehwag, starting the day on 85, reached his 20th Test century with a streaky shot down the leg-side off Angelo Mathews for his 18th boundary.
The Delhi opener moved to 109 when he slashed at a wide ball from Chanaka Welegedara and only managed to edge an easy catch to lone slip Tharanga Paranavitana.
Laxman made 22 when he top-edged a hook off sling-arm fast bowler Lasith Malinga to be caught at square-leg by Tillakaratne Dilshan.
The entire second day's play had been washed out and 22 overs were lost on the first day due to heavy rain, but Wednesday's play began under clear blue skies.
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