Muttiah Muralitharan spun the West Indians to their doom as Sri Lanka won the second cricket Test by 240 runs here on Monday to sweep the short series 2-0. The off-spinner grabbed eight for 46 as the tourists, set a huge victory target of 375, folded up for 137 before tea on the fourth day at the Asgiriya Stadium.
Muralitharan's 14th haul of 10 wickets in a match - he claimed 2-37 in the first innings - gave him 17 wickets in what was his first series in 11 months due to a shoulder injury.
The 31-year-old now has 549 Test wickets from 93 matches, second only to Australian Shane Warne, who took his tally to 589 from 124 games after Sunday's first Test against England at Lord's.
Sri Lanka won the first Test in Colombo by six wickets.
SCOREBOARD
SRI LANKA (1st innings): 150 (T. Samaraweera 37, T. Dilshan 36, D. Powell 5-25, T. Best 3-50):
WEST INDIES (1st innings): 148 (N. Deonarine 40, C. Vaas 6-22,l M. Muralitharan 2-37):
SRI LANKA (2nd innings - overnight 340-7):
S. Jayasuriya c Morton b Lawson 36
M. Atapattu c Banks b Powell 19
K. Sangakkara not out 157
M. Jayawardena b Lawson 43
T. Samaraweera c Ramdin b Lawson 0
T. Dilshan c Morton b Banks 49
G. Wijekoon b Powell 12
C. Vaas b Banks 19
R. Herath not out 15
EXTRAS: (B-4, LB-6, NB-9, W-6) 25
TOTAL: (for seven wickets dec) 375
FALL OF WICKETS: 1-55, 2-57, 3-155, 4-155, 5-264, 6-278, 7-321
BOWLING: Powell 28-4-89-2, Lawson 29-1-104-3, Best 20-3-84-0, Banks 19-5-47-2, Deonarine 3-0-13-0, Morton 5-0-15-0, Chanderpaul 3-1-13-0
OVERS: 107
WEST INDIES (2nd innings - target 378):
X. Marshall lbw b Malinga 1
R. Ramdass c Jayawardena
b Muralitharan 23
R. Morton lbw b Muralitharan 9
S. Chanderpaul c Jayawardena
b Herath 24
S. Joseph c Jayawardena
b Muralitharan 0
N. Deonarine b Muralitharan 29
D. Ramdin b Muralitharan 28
O. Banks c Sangakkara b Muralitharan 1
D. Powell c Jayawardena
b Muralitharan 0
T. Best b Muralitharan 8
J. Lawson not out 1
EXTRAS: (B-4, LB-2, NB-5, W-2) 13
TOTAL: (all out) 137
FALL OF WICKETS: 1-2, 2-38, 3-49, 4-49, 5-77, 6-105, 7-111, 8-119, 9-131
BOWLING: Malinga 12-2-48-1, Wijekoon 4-1-8-0, Muralitharan 16.2-4-46-8, Herath 9-2-29-1
OVERS: 41.2.
Sri Lanka won by 240 runs, take series 2-0
TOSS: West Indies
UMPIRES: Simon Taufel (AUS) and Tony Hill (NZL)
MATCH REFEREE: Mike Procter (RSA).
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