damp outfield had delayed the start of play by half an hour but Zaheer made up for lost time with an explosive start, nailing three wickets in his first three overs. For the first one he was helped by Sourav Ganguly, running backwards from square leg and diving full-length to get rid of Sanath Jayasuriya, who went for the pull shot and was cramped for room. Two balls later, Zaheer trapped the other opener, Upul Tharanga, with a sharp in-cutter. When Kumar Sangakkara played on in the next over, Zaheer's figures read 2.3-0-3-3. Marvan Atapattu went about denting them somewhat - the last three overs of his first spell went for 23 - but the decisive blows had already been struck. He returned to scalp 2 for 11 in his last three-over spell and round off a memorable day.
