After the break, Mahela Jayawardene and Vaas continued to plunder the West Indies bowling, and put Sri Lanka in an impregnable position.
Mahela Jayawardene's rich vein of luck soon ran out, when he tried to reverse sweep Gayle and was dubiously adjudged lbw, but video replays revealed that Bowden probably erred, since the ball struck the gloves of the batsman and came nowhere near his pads.
Gayle added the scalp of Thilan Thushara, caught at deep mid-wicket for a duck, but Vaas drove Benn to long-off for a single to reach his 50 and a few flourishing strokes from Rangana Herath hastened the declaration.
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