Sri Lanka secured a 10 run victory over Ireland to win the second Test in Galle to seal the series 2-0.

The hosts won both games in the two-match series in Galle, giving them their 100th Test win. The tourists are still looking for their first win in cricket’s longest format, the Test.

On the last day, Harry Tector tried to bat out a draw by himself. He scored 85 runs and put together a 41-run partnership with the ninth wicket, but Mendis took 5-64 and Ireland was bowled out for 202 in their second innings.

Asitha Fernando used a yorker to get rid of Tector and end the resistance. With the next ball, he got rid of the last man, Ben White, to finish off another easy win.

The visitors’ first innings score of 492 is one of the highest scores that has ever been followed by an innings loss.

Sri Lanka declared when they had 704 runs and 3 wickets left. When Ireland started their second innings, they had 54 runs and 2 wickets left.

But Jayasuriya got rid of Paul Stirling in the fourth over of the morning. This made him the first spinner to get 50 wickets as quickly as possible, since he did it in only seven Tests.

Alf Valentine, a left-handed bowler from the West Indies, took eight games to reach the same mark more than 70 years earlier.

Mendis got rid of Curtis Campher, who had scored 100 runs in the first innings, when he swept a ball straight to Kusal Mendis at leg-slip. On 46, captain Andy Balbirnie drove a ball straight to Angelo Mathews at mid-off, giving Mendis his third wicket of the innings.

Then, in the next two overs, Mendis got rid of Andy McBrine and Graham Hume, giving him his fourth five-wicket haul.

The first Test was won by Sri Lanka by an innings and 280 runs.