Spinners help SL end Day Two in command v WI

SL’s Ramesh Mendis (right) celebrates the wicket of WI’s Kraigg Brathwaite. Pic/AFP

The West Indies were on Monday in deep trouble in the first Test against Sri Lanka as they collapsed to 113-6 at stumps on Day Two in reply to the hosts' first innings total of 386 all out.

The tourists, hunting their first ever Test win in Sri Lanka, trailed by 273 runs with four wickets in hand in Galle. After Sri Lanka's quicks failed to take a wicket, the spinners made hay as off-spinner Ramesh Mendis claimed three wickets and left-arm orthodox duo Praveen Jayawickrama and Lasith Embuldeniya shared three wickets between them.

Openers Kraigg Brathwaite and Jermaine Blackwood had added 46 runs for the first wicket before Embuldeniya provided the breakthrough trapping Blackwood leg-before for 20.

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