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    "title": "Delhi Test: Dhananjaya De Silva's defiant ton keeps Sri Lanka alive",
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    "excerpt": "New Delhi, Dec 6 (CRICKETNMORE) - Dhananjaya de Silva's third Test century kept alive Sri Lanka's hopes of salvaging a draw as the islanders reached 226\/5 at tea on the final day of the third Test at the Ferozeshah Kotla",
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    "editor1": "<p><strong>New Delhi, Dec 6 (CRICKETNMORE) - <\/strong>Dhananjaya de Silva&#39;s third Test century kept alive Sri Lanka&#39;s hopes of salvaging a draw as the islanders reached 226\/5 at tea on the final day of the third Test at the Ferozeshah Kotla here on Wednesday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>De Silva (119), however walked off the field, immediately after reaching the milestone after suffering a glute muscle injury, leaving debutant Roshen Silva (38) and Niroshan Dickwella (11) at the crease when tea was called.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Resuming the second session at 119\/4, de Silva started fluently striking three boundaries as the fifth wicket stand with skipper Dinesh Chandimal (36) flourished to three figures.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Just as the proceedings started going Sri Lanka&#39;s way, off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin struck with the crucial scalp of Chandimal, whose ploy to whip a tossed up delivery through mid-wicket only resulted in the ball sneaking through the gap between bat and pad to hit the stumps.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Chandimal&#39;s patient knock came off 90 balls and included only two hits to the fence.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The fall of Chandimal&#39;s wicket brought in the young Roshen Silva, who made up for his flop show in the first innings, with a mature knock to add 58 runs for the sixth wicket with de Silva.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Meanwhile, de Silva, who became the ninth Sri Lankan to score a hundred in the fourth innings of a Test, was seen struggling and subsequently left the field just at the stroke of tea.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Earlier, Sri Lanka lost the scalp of overnight batsman Angelo Mathews (1) in the morning session before Chandimal and de Silva took over to deny the hosts any more inroads.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Brief Scores: Sri Lanka 119\/4 (Dhananjaya de Silva 119 retd, Roshen Silva 38 not out, Dinesh Chandimal 36; Ravindra Jadeja 3\/59) against India 563\/7 decl &amp; 246\/5 decl.<\/p>\r\n",
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