{"id":22104,"date":"2026-11-11T20:30:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T20:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/de-silva-mendis-hundreds-sri-lanka-rawalpindi-test\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T20:33:54","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T20:33:54","slug":"de-silva-mendis-hundreds-sri-lanka-rawalpindi-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/de-silva-mendis-hundreds-sri-lanka-rawalpindi-test\/","title":{"rendered":"De Silva, Mendis Hundreds Put Sri Lanka in Strong Reply at Rawalpindi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mohsin Ali<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ISLAMABAD: Dhananjaya de Silva and Kusal Mendis struck commanding centuries as Sri Lanka reached 404-4 on the third day of the first Test against Pakistan in Rawalpindi on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>De Silva was unbeaten on 167, while Mendis was 117 not out as the two batters held Pakistan at bay with an unbroken 249-run partnership for the fifth wicket. Sri Lanka closed within 30 runs of Pakistan\u2019s first-innings total of 434-9 declared.<\/p>\n<p>Mendis also became the first Sri Lankan to make a century in his maiden Test as captain, having taken over the role from De Silva before the series.<\/p>\n<p>Their stand set a new Sri Lankan record against Pakistan, surpassing the 207-run partnership between Thilan Samaraweera and Tillakaratne Dilshan in Lahore in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>De Silva, who was dropped by Saud Shakeel on 38 off pacer Razaullah, made the most of the chance and struck 20 fours in his 241-ball innings. He completed his 14th Test hundred, his fourth against Pakistan and second at the Rawalpindi venue, with a boundary off spinner Arafat Minhas.<\/p>\n<p>Mendis played the more attacking hand, hitting four sixes and 10 fours. He reached his 11th Test century with a ramp boundary off Razaullah.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka added 290 runs during the day before bad light brought play to an end 15 minutes early.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s bowlers endured a difficult day, with Mohammad Abbas returning figures of 2-64 and debutant Saqib Khan taking 2-105.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Sri Lanka lost only one wicket in the first session as De Silva and Kamindu Mendis added 90 for the fourth wicket, building on the overnight score of 114-3. Kamindu made 58 from 131 balls with eight fours before edging Abbas to wicketkeeper Ghazi Ghori, leaving Sri Lanka 155-4.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan had declared their first innings at 434-9 on Tuesday after resuming from 281-5. Saud Shakeel top-scored with 93, while debutants Tayyab Arif, Mohammad Taha and Arafat Minhas made half-centuries to put the hosts in a strong position.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka had ended the second day at 114-3, trailing Pakistan by 320 runs, after Abbas and debutant Saqib struck early before Dhananjaya de Silva and Kamindu Mendis steadied the innings with an unbeaten 49-run stand.<\/p>\n<p>The second Test will also be played in Rawalpindi from November 17 after being shifted from Lahore because of poor weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhananjaya de Silva and Kusal Mendis hit unbeaten centuries as Sri Lanka reached 404-4 on day three of the first Test against Pakistan in Rawalpindi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":22103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22107,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22104\/revisions\/22107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}