Arachchige plays captain’s knock of 83*

Sahan Arachchige played a captain’s innings of 83* off 148 balls (9 fours, 1 six) to hold the Sri Lanka ‘A’ first innings together and help them end the first day of the second 4-day unofficial test against India ‘A’ on 288-5 at the Galle International Cricket Stadium yesterday. Invited to bat first Sri Lanka ‘A’ were helped by contributions from all their top order batsmen but none went onto convert their starts into a big innings apart from th