Watch: Dhananjaya de Silva and Razaullah engaged in heated fight during PAK vs SL 1st Test

During the third day of the opening Test between Pakistan and Sri Lanka at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Razaullah and Dhananjaya de Silva got engaged in a heated fight between them as the video went vital around the social media platforms. The youngster seemed to be losing his cool while de Silva was smiling.

Pakistan had the upper hand over the Sri Lanka side during the three-match T20I series and the ODI series, where the latter lost the contest against the home side. The newly appointed captain, Kusal Mendis, won the toss and decided to bowl first. 

Tempers flare between Sri Lanka’s Dhananjaya de Silva and Pakistan pacer Razaullah in the Rawalpindi Test

It was the 70th over of the innings when Razaullah decided to rip it up against de Silva with the short deliveries. On the first of these balls, the right-handed batter went on the back foot and pulled the ball hard off the surface straight into the hands of the fielder.

Watch the moment here- 

De Silva had a few words at Razaullah, who didn’t leave and gave a reply to the former captain of the Sri Lanka side in the longest format of the game. The follow-up delivery, as anyone would expect from a pacer, was a short ball as Silva ducked.

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Razaullah continued with the same tactic, and this time the batter was fully prepared to pull it into the leg side for a single. That plan was never going to help the pacer as the Sri Lanka batter had already crossed the 100-run mark and was aware of the pace of the surface.

Sri Lanka’s strong reply against Pakistan’s 434-9 declared, with de Silva and Mendis’ centuries

Pakistan posted a massive score of 434 runs on the board for the loss of nine wickets before declaring in the first innings as five batters celebrated their respective half-centuries. Saud Shakeel smashed a fine knock of 93 runs with nine fours, while Babar Azam, Mohammad Taha, and Tayyab Arif got their respective fifties, along with Arafat Minhas.

Sri Lanka were under pressure at 12/2 in the fourth over. But they were placed in a strong position at 155/4 before the 249-run unbeaten stand for the fifth wicket between the two centurions, De Silva and Mendis, pushed them near Pakistan’s first-innings score.

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Brief Scores: Sri Lanka 404/4 (Dhananjaya de Silva 167, Kusal Mendis 117*, Mohammad Abbas 2/64) trail Pakistan 434/9 dec (Saud Shakeel 93, Tayyab Arif 57, Asitha Fernando 3/107) by 30 runs