Pieterson's excellent century switch pressure to SL

Kevin Pieterson excellent one-day style century takes England to a comfortable zone in the third day of  second test against Sri Lanka in Colombo.
 Pieterson batted excellently and got 153 of just 165 balls with 16 fours and 6 sixes to suppress the rumurs of poor batting in Asia.
Pieterson, with the support of Cook(94) and Trott(64) lead the score to 460 to get 185 runs lead against the home side.
SL, with  the century from Jayawardene had scored 275 in the first inning. The home side has started their second inning and scored 4/0 and are still 181 runs behind.



                                Brief scorecard:
2nd Test  Day 3  

Sri Lanka                                      England

1st inning - 275                            1st inning - 460
Jayawardene - 105 (313)              Pieterson - 153 (165)
AD Mathews - 57 (213)               A Cook  - 94 (339)
G Swann  - 4/75                         H Herath - 6/133

2nd inning - 4/0

Sri Lanka trail by 181 runs with 10 wickets remaining.

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