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India defeated Sri Lanka by 238 runs in the Day-Night Test match played in Bangalore. Along with this, under the captaincy of Rohit, Team India made a clean sweep to Sri Lanka in the two-match Test series.
Under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, the Indian cricket team played a Day-Night Test match against Sri Lanka in Bangalore. In this match, India had given Sri Lanka a target of 447 runs to win, but the visiting team was all out for 208 runs and India won by 238 runs.
With this win, India made a 2-0 clean sweep of Sri Lanka in the two-match Test series. Earlier, under Rohit’s captaincy, India had cleaned up Sri Lanka 3-0 in the three-match T20I series.
In this match, Indian captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bat and the team was bowled out for 252 runs in the first innings. After this, the Sri Lankan batsmen also surrendered in front of the Indian bowlers in the first innings and the entire team was reduced to 109 runs.
The Indian team scored 252 runs in the second innings and the team’s total lead was 446 runs and they got a target of 447 runs to win. Shreyas Iyer scored 92 runs in the first innings for India, while in the second innings, Iyer scored 67 and Rishabh Pant scored 50 runs. Bumrah took 5 wickets in the first innings for India.
India’s first innings, Shreyas Iyer scored 92 runs:
In the first innings of this match, Indian opener batsman Mayank Agarwal was run out after scoring 4 runs. So team captain Rohit Sharma scored just 8 runs and handed his catch to de Silva off Embuldenia’s ball.
Hanuma Vihari played an innings of 31 runs and he was dismissed by Jayavikrama. Virat Kohli’s bat did not play in the first innings and he was dismissed leg before by de Silva after scoring 23 runs.
Rishabh Pant contributed 39 runs for the team and he was clean bowled by Ambuldeniya. Jadeja, who played an unbeaten innings of 175 runs in the Mohali Test, became a victim of ambuldenia on just four in this match.
R Ashwin was caught out after scoring just 13 runs. Akshar Patel was dismissed for 9 by Lakmal. Mo. Shami got out after scoring 5 runs. Shreyas Iyer batted well but was stumped after scoring 92 runs.
Sri Lanka’s first innings, Bumrah took 5 wickets:
The first blow to Sri Lanka was given by Jasprit Bumrah to Kusal Mendis for 2 runs. Bumrah also took the second wicket of Sri Lanka and got Lahiru Thirimanne caught by Shreyas for 8 runs. Shami clean bowled captain Dimuth Karunaratne for 8 runs.
Shami dismissed de Silva leg before for 10 runs. Aslanka was caught by Axar Patel for 5 runs. Angelo Mathews scored 43 runs, but Bumrah did his job. This team got the 7th blow in the form of Lasith Embuldeniya, he was dismissed by Bumrah.
Ashwin sent Lakmal to the pavilion as the 8th wicket. Sri Lanka got the 9th blow as Dickwella and the 10th blow as Vishwa Fernando, he was dismissed by Ashwin. This is Sri Lanka’s second lowest score against India. Bumrah took 5 wickets for India and was the most successful bowler.
India’s second innings, Shreyas Iyer scored 92 runs-
India got the first blow in the form of Mayank Agarwal, he was caught by Ambuldenia at the hands of de Silva. He scored 22 runs. Rohit Sharma was dismissed as the second wicket, who was caught by De Silva at the hands of Mathews.
Hanuma Vihari got out after scoring 35 runs for the third wicket. He was dismissed by Praveen Jayavikrama. Virat Kohli got out after scoring 13 runs. Rishabh Pant was dismissed for 50 as the 5th wicket and he was dismissed by Jayavikrama.
Jadeja was bowled by Fernando for 22 runs. Shreyas Iyer made 67 while R Ashwin scored 13 runs. Akshar Patel got out after scoring 9 runs. For Sri Lanka, Jayavikrama took four wickets while Embuldeniya took three wickets.
Sri Lanka’s second innings, Dimuth Karunaratne scored a century:
In the second innings, Bumrah gave the first blow to the Sri Lankan team by dismissing Thirimanne lbw for zero. Kusal Mendis played a very good innings and scored 54 runs, but Ashwin ended his innings by stumping him at the hands of Pant.
Angelo Mathews was dismissed for one by Jadeja. Ashwin dismissed D’Silva for 4. Dickwella was stumped by Axar Patel at the hands of Pant. Aslanka was caught out by Akshar for 5 runs.
Captain Dimuth Karunaratne was clean bowled by Bumrah for 107 runs. In the second innings for India, Ashwin took four wickets while Bumrah took three wickets. Apart from this, Akshar got two and Jadeja got one success.
India’s playing XI:
Rohit Sharma (captain), Mayank Agarwal, Hanuma Vihari, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Shreyas Iyer, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami.
Sri Lanka’s playing XI:
Dimuth Karunaratne (capt), Lahiru Thirimanne, Kusal Mendis, Angelo Mathews, Dhananjaya de Silva, Charith Aslanka, Niroshan Dickwella (wk), Suranga Lakmal, Lasith Embuldeniya, Vishwa Fernando, Praveen Jayawickrama.
