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Mahela Jayawardene going through a nightmare of poor form, found the conditions to his liking and made a brilliant comeback to good form. He smashed two amazing sixes and four boundaries in making 58 runs off 46 balls. Marvan Atapattu played a good hand, making 36 off 39 balls, before being brilliantly stumped by Parore off the bowling of Vettori. Jaywardene and Suresh Perera (1) perished in one over from Craig McMillan, going for big shots at the death. Russel Arnold struck some heavy blows and remained unbeaten on 22 off 18 balls to take Sri Lanka to 221/6 in 36 overs.