9.58am And that is that, Dimuth Karunaratne has declared. West Indies will need to chase 297 for an unlikely win. A minimum of 93 overs to go today, if the weather and light hold out.

Nuwan: "@Kalindu Test Championship Points are more important than series these days."

Kalindu: "SL has already won the series. Why put that status in jeopardy by declaring early? Don't want to see what happened to Bangladesh being repeated here. I'm just happy about the grit these two batters showcased which we were missing in recent times."

Wester: "Rajiv: Sri Lanka do not want Kyle Mayers and co to repeat what they did in the beginning of the year.. already they are one up... And of course, Sril Lanka need a maximum of 80 overs to bundle out West Indies wickets.. "

121.4
W
Holder to Embuldeniya, OUT, bowled him. Fullish and straight, offcutter, looks to make room and launch it over mid-off, and he fails to connect

L Embuldeniya b Holder 39 (164m 124b 2x4 1x6) SR: 31.45

Slip now moves to fly slip, two-thirds of the way back.

121.3
0
Holder to Embuldeniya, no run, yorker on off stump, makes room and opens his bat face to squeeze it to the left of gully, who anticipates nicely and moves quickly to stop it

Holder goes around the wicket now. Slip and gully.

Rajiv: "Brilliant play from Sri Lanka to get themselves into this position. Can think of many a similar occasion in recent times where we would have folded. But, very very disappointing to not see them declare , at the very least, overnight."

Rifqi: "The sooner the Sri Lanka innings finishes, the sooner we see the end of behind the stumps commentary from Da Silva ! "

121.2
2
Holder to Embuldeniya, 2 runs, another slower ball angling across, dabbed into the point region
121.1
0
Holder to Embuldeniya, no run, slower ball angling away from off stump, looks to make room and slash it away but can't connect

Holder, over the wicket to the left-hander.

Divyank Singh: "Should have declared overnight." -- One reason for not doing so could be Sri Lanka wanting to have the choice of the roller.

END OF OVER:
121 | 9 Runs | SL: 343/8

  • Lasith Embuldeniya37 (120b)
  • Dhananjaya de Silva155 (262b)
  • Kemar Roach8-0-27-0
  • Veerasammy Permaul40-4-106-3
120.6
1
Roach to Embuldeniya, 1 run, full on leg stump, makes a lot of room and jabs it down to long-off
120.5
0
Roach to Embuldeniya, no run, length ball angling away from off stump, looks to stab it away into the off side and misses

Over the wicket now

120.4
2
Roach to Embuldeniya, 2 runs, and he finds the newly created gap. Full offcutter close to off stump, looks to open his bat face and steer behind point, and ends up edging it between the keeper and slip. Third man is quite fine, though, so no boundary

The cordon has thinned to just one wide slip.

120.3
4
Roach to Embuldeniya, FOUR, bam. Drops short outside off and Embuldeniya clears his front leg and flat-bats it over wide mid-on. This is now Sri Lanka's highest ninth-wicket partnership of all time

West Indies 4th innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st15KC BrathwaiteJ Blackwood
2nd50NE BonnerJ Blackwood
3rd27NE BonnerSD Hope
4th0NE BonnerRL Chase
5th0NE BonnerKR Mayers
6th11NE BonnerJO Holder
7th5NE BonnerJ Da Silva
8th20KAJ RoachJ Da Silva
9th1V PermaulJ Da Silva
10th3JA WarricanJ Da Silva