Stitches...Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardene bats during the second cricket test match between Pakistan and Sri Lanka, at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. Picture: AP Source: Ineke Zondag / AP
Mahela Jayawardene defied a left-hand webbing injury to notch his 32nd century and Kaushal Silva missed his by five runs as Sri Lanka gained an upper hand over Pakistan in the second Test in Dubai on Thursday.
Jayawardene, who received three stitches after he dropped a catch on Wednesday, scored 106 not out and shared an invaluable 139-run partnership with Silva (95) to guide Sri Lanka to 4-318 at stumps on the second day.
Sri Lanka gained an important 153-run lead over Pakistan's first innings score of 165 and a chance to take a lead in the three-Test series after the first match ended in a draw in Abu Dhabi last week.
Jayawardene, grimacing while playing strokes, hit paceman Bilawal Bhatti for his 12th boundary to reach three figure mark off 215 balls.
Skipper Angelo Mathews was 42 not out.
Jayawardene, the 36-year-old former captain, had batted for 330 minutes for only his second century against Pakistan and his first in 21 months since his hundred against England in Colombo in April 2012.
"Obviously there were limitations in my batting but I concentrated hard and the target was to time the shots and its pleasing to score a hundred," said Jayawardene, who received injections and pain-killer before the innings.
He and Silva made up for a disappointing start to the day after the visitors, resuming on 1-57, lost Kumar Sangakkara (26) and Dinesh Chandimal (12) in the space of 13 runs.
Silva, who survived a confident caught behind appeal off paceman Rahat Ali when on 26, helped Jayawardene to score 83 runs in the second session, taking the score to 3-132 at tea.
Silva was finally dismissed leg-before by Mohammad Hafeez soon after tea. He hit ten boundaries during his defiant 330-minute stay at the crease.
Jayawardene, who failed in both the innings of the first Test with five and nought, successfully overturned a leg-before decision against him by Australian umpire Bruce Oxenford when on 26.
Pakistan took the second new ball in the 81st over and could have been rewarded in the next over had wicket-keeper Sarfraz Ahmed not spilled a simple chance from Mathews off Ali when the batsman had just six.
Left-arm paceman Junaid Khan was the pick of the bowlers with 2-75.
Bowling coach Mohammad Akram said they tried everything but couldn't get Jayawardene out.
"The pitch was different from the first day and our bowlers tried every thing but we couldn't get Mahela who played a very good knock," said Akram.
The third and final Test will be played in Sharjah from January 16.
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