WEST INDIES STAYS AFLOAT AFTER RECORD PARTNERSHIP

A record-breaking partnership between Shai Hope and Justin Greaves, has kept the West Indies team afloat in the second test match versus Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka batting first scored a mammoth 549 for 9 declared. The home team looked in trouble at 144 for -4, when Shai Hope and Justin Graves teamed up in a record- breaking partnership of 242 runs.

Hope scored 112 and Greaves 180 to take West Indies to 499-50 runs short of the target. At the end of day four, Sri Lanka batting a second time were at 92 for 2, leading by142 runs