Sri Lanka’s Milan Rathnayake, who was given his Sri Lanka cap prioritizing his fast bowling talent, did turn everything in it’s head in a bowler turned batsman incarcerated to blitzing a 41–year old test Cricket record in smashing his way with the bat to the highest score by a debuting No.9.

The 28-year old spring a surprise to putting his fast arm bowling to a backseat to a literally flabbergasting act with the bat. His 74-feat was to roll aside India’s Balwinder Sandhu’s 71 record in 2982-83 against Pakistan at Hyderabad.
The left-hand moulded Rathnayake, a discovery by Sri Lanka Cricket’s grassroots drive of latent talent from Kurunegela this write a new chapter u. Test cricket history taking on an overly deadly England foursome pace attack that was at its lethal best with Sri Lanka in the dumps Rathnayake’s effort came in a two-man resurrecting fightback in giving his captain Dhananjaya de Silva the desired support to a 200-plus total from the gloom if 3 wickets down for 6 to a further precipitation.