IND vs SL 2nd Test Highlights: India win by 238 runs, Bumrah, Iyer shine

India vs Sri Lanka 2nd Test: India registered yet another clean-sweep under Rohit Sharma's captaincy after a huge 238 run victory in the second Test vs Sri Lanka. Bumrah-8 wickets, Iyer-159 runs

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | India win- India move up in WTC Points Table

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | India win- Farewell Suranga Lakmal!

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | India win- Rohit lifts his first trophy as India's Test captain

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | India win- Learnings from the series

 

Shreyas Iyer and Vihari are here to stay

 

Shreyas Iyer has once again proved in this series that he is here to stay and that he has permanently taken the position of Ajinkya Rahane in the team. On the other hand, Hanuma Vihari has also performed equally well hitting fifty and two thirties on a difficult track. Thus, for Cheteshwar Pujara and Rahane to find their way back in the Playing 11 or even in the team, it looks like a foregone conclusion that they have played their last game for India even though they or their fans might not have realised.  

 

Pant's keeping has improved leaps and bounds

 

Rishabh Pant the dashing batter was never doubted even by the critics as India's first choice wicket-keeping option. It was his role as wicket-keeper especially on turning Indian pitches that created a doubt. But over the course of the two matches, he has shown that he is made different and that he can learn to adjust and can adjust pretty quickly if given an opportunity. He has now developed himself into one of the best wicket-keeper batsmen in the world without any doubt.

 

Rohit Sharma needs no freebies

 

And last but not the least, Rohit Sharma knows how to grab opportunities and there is no system of trial and error with him as he has not dropped even a single game after being named India's full-time captain in all three formats. It is this attitude that makes him an ideal captain and India can expect big things from him in the 2 to 3 years of cricket that is left in him. 

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | India win- Meet Player of the Match

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | India win- Rishabh Pant, Player of the Series

 

Rishabh Pant, who scored a brilliant 96 in the first Test and then made game-changing 39 and 50 in the first and second innings of the second Test respectively, has been rightfully named Player of the Series. Along with his batting, his wicket-keeping was class apart as well as he has to name 8 dismissals in the series which also include two stumpings. But more than all this, his input in the Decision Review System has been very crucial for Rohit Sharma to make decisions. 

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | India win- Shreyas Iyer Player of the Match

 

Shreyas Iyer has been named as the Player of the Match and rightly so for his 92 in the first innings and 67 in the second as those were the runs on the back which India managed to get Sri Lanka under pressure so he would take the award gleefully

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | India win-The winning moment

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | India win- Great clean-sweep

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | Day 3- 5th Clean-Sweep in a row for Rohit Sharma

 

With this 238 run victory in the second Test between India and Sri Lanka, the Indian team under the leadership of Rohit Sharma has now won five series with a clean sweep. He won the T20I series against New Zealand 3-0, won the ODI and T20I series against West Indies 3-0 as well and before this 2-0 clean-sweep in the Test series, the Indian team also beat Sri Lanka 3-0 in the T20Is. 

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | Day 3- India win by 238 runs

 

And that would be it then. In the second session of the third day, India have beaten Sri Lanka by a huge margin of 238 runs as the visitors lose their last four wickets for just four runs, with the tailenders giving no fight whatsoever. The last wicket was Vishwa Fernando hooked a ball in the air and was caught by Mohammad Shami off the bowling of Ravichandran Ashwin who picked up four wickets in the fourth innings. 

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | Day 3- That's how Karunaratne went

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | Day 3- India running through with it now

 

And after Dimuth Karunaratne, Ashwin got the wicket of Lasith Embuldeniya in the same over as well and now Jasprit Bumrah has bowled Suranga Lakmal and immediately hugs and congratulates him for an outstanding Test career where he played 70 international games. The rest of the Indian players as well as the Sri Lankan players congratulate Lakmal as the crowds chant Lakmal...Lakmal at the M Chinnaswamy 

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | Day 3- Lapse in concentration from Karunaratne

 

And finally, a lapse in concentration from Dimuth Karunaratne and Bumrah castles him. It was full and into the stumps, there to be driven and he drove but there was a big gap between bat and pad and seemed like after his century, he was tired and thus Karunaratne departs after a well made century and now India are just three wickets away from the win. 

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | Day 3- 14th Test century for Karunaratne

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | Day 3- The class of Karunaratne

 

What Karunaratne has achieved here is just phenomenal. On a pitch that was spitting venom from the very first day and where greats like Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma couldn't score against even the Sri Lankan bowling attack, Dimuth Karunaratne has shown patience and has gone on to score a kind of century that will be remembered for ages. This is the first and only century that this game has seen so far from both the teams combined. 

 

Now, it would be great to see how far can Sri Lanka go. They have crossed the 200 mark also and it is the first time in four innings that they have been able to do it. 

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | Day 3- Karunaratne's century the only point of play

 

Dimuth Karunaratne is batting at 90 and if he goes on to score a century, it would be one of the greatest of his careers because it would come on a track where players like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Angelo Mathews couldn't get past 50 and Iyer, even after getting past 50 twice, was not able to get to a hundred. Sri Lanka are 6 down for 183 and the likes of Embuldeniya, Lakmal and Jayawickrama need to stand there to take  their captain to a memorable hundred 

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | Day 3- Asalanka goes

 

There goes another wicket. It was well set up as Asalanka was drawn to play at the ball that was going down the leg after being bowled from over the wicket by Axar Patel, instead of going through with the shot, he just nicked it and was caught easily by captain Rohit Sharma at the leg slip. Sri Lanka are now 182/6

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | Day 3- Another achievement for Ashwin

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | Day 3- Poor batting from Dickwella

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | Day 3- Post Tea session begins, Dickwella gone

 

The second session of the third day's play of the second session between India and Sri Lanka begins with the Sri Lankan team moving along nicely at 160/4 with the fifth wicket adding 55 runs. and Just as I type, Niroshan Dickwella has committed Harakiri here as just like Kusal Mendis, after going well, come down the case to Axar Patel on a delivery that was keeping low and missed it completely. 

 

This is pathetic from Sri Lanka as they lose their fifth wicket for 160. Just as it seems that Sri Lanka might get along and provide some resistance, a very foolish shot all the time leads to the fall of a wicket. 

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | Day 3, Tea- Karunratne fights on

 

The Sri Lankan team played out 32 overs in the first session and lost only three wickets, out of which the wicket of Kusal Mendis, who scored a very handsome fifty was more than just a gift and then the two of Angelo Mathews and Dhananjaya de Silva were of unplayable deliveries, especially that of Mathews. But credit must go to Karunratne and Niroshan Dickwella who have batted well and not let the Sri Lankan team lose too many wickets

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | Day 3, Tea- Sri Lanka 151/4

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | Day 3- Fine innings from Karunaratne

 

This has been a fine display of batsmanship from Dimuth Karunaratne here in the fourth innings at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium as he brings up a great fifty. He and Kusal Mendis looked unbeatable out there this afternoon. But Mendis gave his wicket away and since then two more wickets fell, but Karunaratne has been unfazed at the other end as he moves to 55 and the Sri Lankan score goes past 130

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | Day 3- Fifty for Karunaratne

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | Day 3- Vihari was indeed brilliant

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | Day 3- Ayaz Memon with the words that matter

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | Day 3- Another one bites the dust and Ashwin strikes again

 

Hanuma Vihari has caught splendidly here as Dhananjaya de Silva's miserable stay at the crease ends. It was on bat and pad and de Silva played with bat and pad and the ball went in the air as the batter was not in control of the shot and Vihari dived at short leg and caught it brilliantly. Sri Lanka are now 105-4. From 97-1, they are 105-4, losing three quality wickets in a space of just eight runs. Yup that's how this Testy has moved 

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | Day 3- Sri Lanka 102/3

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Live | IND vs SL | 2nd Test | Day 3- Mathews out cheaply, Jadeja gets his first wicket

 

And as I was saying it will open the floodgates, it has as Ravindra Jadeja has gone through the defences of Angelo Mathews and castled him to grab his first wicket of the match. Now this will out a lot of pressure on the settled Dimuth Karunaratne and if a partnership doesn't develop here for this wicket between Karunaratne and Dhananjaya de Silva, we might as well see the match getting done in the first session itself