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Sri Lanka defeat West Indies by an innings

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Sri Lanka's Nuwan Pradeep (right)
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Sri Lankan spin bowler Rangana Herath's 10-wicket match haul helped the hosts crush the West Indies by an innings and six runs Saturday to decisively win the first Test at Galle with a day to spare.

West Indies were dismissed for 227  in the second innings, just an hour and 15 minutes after lunch on the fourth day of a Test which saw Herath wreak havoc throughout.

He finished with second innings figures of four for 79, after taking six for 68 in the first innings, in which the tourists were all out for 251 and forced to follow on after Sri Lanka amassed 484 in their first innings.

Herath's fifth 10-wicket haul in his 64th Test put him just 11 wickets shy of becoming the third Sri Lankan to snag 300 Test wickets.

After starting the day on 67 for two, the West Indies never managed to build up enough momentum to challenge the hosts, as Jermaine Blackwood, the last man out for 92, provided the lone resistance on a day of abject surrender by the West Indies batsmen.

His innings included 10 fours and three sixes.  

Shortly after the start of the day's play, nightwatchman Devendra Bishoo was caught by captain Angelo Mathews off the bowling of Herath with the score at just 74.

The very next ball, Herath trapped Marlon Samuels leg before wicket.

Though the spinner missed out on a hat trick, Sri Lanka kept the West Indies in trouble with Darren Bravo (31) falling to a peach of a swinger by Nuwan Pradeep that edged back to wicketkeeper Kusal Janith Perera.

Denesh Ramdin was next to fall, caught at slip off the bowling of Milinda Siriwardana.

The West Indies were looking forlorn at lunch at 156-6 needing a further 77 to avoid an innings defeat.

Captain Jason Holder was the first to go after the break. He tried to charge Herath down the wicket, but the edge flew to Mathews who quickly struck the stumps before Holder could regain his ground.

Soon after, Kemar Roach was stumped for five and Jerome Taylor was given out leg before to Dhammika Prasad, also for five.

Blackwood and Shannon Gabriel added 38 for the last wicket, briefly raising the spectre of forcing Sri Lanka to bat again, but Blackwood was eventually caught off Prasad's bowling just eight runs short of a century.

Source: AFP

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