India vs Sri Lanka, 1st Test Highlights: Ravindra Jadeja’s All-Round Show Powers India To Innings Win
1st Test, Day 3: India beat Sri Lanka by an innings and 222 runs in Mohali© AFP
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Highlights: India on Sunday defeated Sri Lanka by an innings and 122 runs in the first Test at the IS Bindra Stadium in Mohali. Following on from their first innings total of 174, Sri Lanka could only manage 178 in their second innings. For India, Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin took four wickets each while Mohammed Shami also picked up a couple. Ashwin also surpassed Kapil Dev to become India’s second-highest wicket-taker in Test, after Anil Kumble. Earlier, Ravindra Jadeja bagged a five-for as India enforced a follow-on on Sri Lanka. India had taken a 400-run lead. Nissanka completed his fifty but Sri lanka continued to lose wickets at the other end. Sri Lanka had resumed play from their overnight score of 108 for 4. Earlier, Jadeja scored a marathon 175-run knock as declared their first innings at 574 for eight. Apart from him, Rishabh Pant also scored a counter-attacking 96 while Hanuma Vihari, who was promoted up the order, also hit a fifty. Virat Kohli had also played a fine knock of 45 but he missed out on a big score on his 100th Test. Initially, India had won the toss and skipper Rohit Sharma had elected to bat. (SCORECARD)
India XI: Rohit Sharma (captain), Mayank Agarwal, Hanuma Vihari, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Jayant Yadav.
Sri Lanka XI: Dimuth Karunaratna (captain), Lahiru Thirimanne, Pathum Nisanka, Angelo Mathews, Dhananjay de Silva, Charith Aslanka, Niroshan Dikwella (wk), Suranga Lakmal, Lasith Embuldeniya, Vishwa Fernando, Lahiru Kumara
Here are the Highlights of Day 3 of the 1st India vs Sri Lanka Test from the IS Bindra Stadium in Mohali
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16:13 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: INDIA WIN
That’s it it’s all over. Played in the air once again by Kumara, this time towards long-off. Shami runs towards his right and pouches it with easy. India win by an innings and 222 runs. Take 1-0 lead in the series.
Lahiru Kumara c Mohammed Shami b Ashwin 4 (14)
Live Score; SL: 178
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16:06 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: 50 UP FOR DICKWELLA!
A battling knock from Dickwella. He reaches his fifty. However, Sri Lanka can only postpone the defeat with this. It will be interesting to see how long can Sri Lanka resist.
Live Score; SL: 173/9
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15:52 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: OUT!
That has nipped back in sharply. Fernando was looking to defend but got beaten on the inside edge and was struck on the back leg. Umpire raises his finger but he reviews it. However, DRS confirms his departure.
Vishwa Fernando lbw b Mohammed Shami 0 (5)
Live Score; SL: 170/9
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15:47 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: FOUR RUNS!
Length ball on the pads from Shami. Dickwella tucks it away through square leg. The long leg fielder puts in the chase but cannot reach there in time
Live Score; SL: 165/8
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15:32 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: OUT!
Jadeja strikes again. Embuldeniya had put on a blockathon. After successfully defending 41 deliveries, he has got out on the 42nd. He gets a slight knick as Pant takes an easy catch.
Lasith Embuldeniya c Pant b Jadeja 2 (42)Live Score; SL: 153/8
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15:26 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: FOUR RUNS!
A length ball wide of off stump. Dickwella reaches out and opens his bat face to steer it through the vacant gully region and past the vacant third man boundary. Cracking shot. Dickwella is looking in his groove. He has already played some solid shots.
Live Score; SL: 149/7
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15:24 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: FOUR RUNS!
Dickwella, Excellent Shot! Pitched on the fuller side, angling into the fourth-stump channel, and that’s lovely timing, gets on the front foot and punches on the up through the vacant cover region
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14:46 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: OUT!
Steps out, doesn’t reach the pitch of a quick ball fired in towards the stumps, and has a flat-bat hoick at it, attempting to clear mid-on. Hits it straight to the fielder
Suranga Lakmal c Yadav b Jadeja 0 (3)
Live Score; SL: 125/7
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14:45 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: WICKET!
Keeps low, and that is plumb! Mathews consults his partner and reviews, but he was so deep in his crease and the ball kept quite low too.
Angelo Mathews lbw b Jadeja 28 (75)Live Score; SL: 125/6
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14:38 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: OUT!
He stretches it out to defend, outside-edges into Rishabh Pant’s pads, and the ball bounces up to an alert Virat Kohli at slip.
Charith Asalanka c Kohli b Ashwin 20 (9)
Live Score; SL: 121/5
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14:11 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: SIX RUNS!
Shimmies down the track. This time over the bowler’s head. Stays leg side of the ball and a clean swing of the arms. Two sixes for Asalanka in this over.
Live Score; SL: 112/4
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14:07 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: OUT!
Taken at extra cover. A soft dismissal. Tossed up around middle and leg. Dhananjaya looks to go inside out but the ball just dips at him and he ends up chipping it towards Shreyas Iyer, who pouches it easily.
Dhananjaya de Silva c Iyer b Jadeja 30 (58)Live Score; SL: 94/4
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13:31 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: FOUR RUNS!
Bumrah tries the yorker but ends up serving a juicy half-volley and de Silva drills it through mid-off. No chance for the fielder at mid-off as it blazes down like a tracer bullet
Live Score; SL: 73/3
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13:22 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: FOUR RUNS!
A bit fuller on the sticks, tailing in. Dhananjaya flicks between square leg and two catching midwickets. Was in the air but in the gap
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13:09 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: 4 LB’S
Just beats the keeper. A lot of movement on that delivery. Back of a length outside off, stops on DDS once again. Looks to punch into the covers, gets a thick inside edge into the leg side
Live Score; SL: 65/3 (f/o)
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12:55 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: OUT!
It’s on the fuller side of a length, and it’s angling into the stumps, but it hits the seam and straightens. He looks to push towards mid-on, gets a thick edge that dies on its way to the keeper
Karunaratne c Pant b Mohammed Shami 27 (46)
Live Score; SL: 45/3 (f/o)
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12:42 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: FOUR RUNS!
Drops a touch short outside off, and Karunaratne moces back and slashes it crisply to the left of backward point.
Live Score; SL: 40/2
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12:32 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: FOUR RUNS!
Length ball turning down leg, gets forward and tickles it away to the left of the keeper. Beats the man at short third.
Live Score; SL: 32/2
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12:24 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: ASH STRIKES AGAIN!
Ashwin strikes again. India in command. After hitting a fifty in the first innings, Nissanka fails to do the same in the second. This one doesn’t turn too much, and Nissanka, stretching out to defend, gets a feather of an outside edge – which Snicko reveals – through to Pant.
Pathum Nissanka c Pant b Ashwin 6 (19)
Live Score; SL: 19/2 (f/o)
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11:35 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: LUNCH CALLED!
Lunch has been called on Day 3. What a session. Sri Lanka lost seven wickets across two innings, five of those for ducks as Jadeja picked up a five-for. Sri Lanka are still 390 runs behind India’s first-innings total.
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11:27 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: WICKET!
OUT! Breakthrough for India. Ashwin strikes. A superb catch by Rohit, going low to his right at second slip. Tossed up around off, Thirimanne comes forward to defend but the ball spins away to take the outside edge and the skipper does the rest
Lahiru Thirimanne c Sharma b Ashwin 0 (9)
SL: 9/1 (F/O)
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11:20 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: 5NB
Length ball outside off, looks to defend. Karunaratne gets a thick outside edge past gully. He overstepped there as well
SL: 5/0 (F/O)
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11:11 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: 5 FOR JADEJA!
FIVE-FOR for Jadeja. Sri Lanka have been bowled out for 174. India take a 400-run lead. Jadeja is the first man in 49 years to score 150 and take a 5-for in the same Test. India have enforced the follow-on.
Live Score; SL: 174 all out; India lead by 400
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11:00 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: SHAMI STRIKES
ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST! Short one. He tries to dug and defend. It takes a top edge and Mayank takes an easy catch. SL now 8 down.
Lasith Embuldeniya c Agarwal b Mohammed Shami 0 (5)
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10:50 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: JADEJA STRIKES AGAIN!
Jadeja strikes twice in the same over. Fuller around off, Lakmal skips down the track and looks to hit it over the bowler’s head. Ends up miscuing it and Ashwin settles under it at mid-off
Suranga Lakmal c Ashwin b Jadeja 0 (2)
Live Score; SL: 164/7
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10:46 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: WICKET!
Dickwella falls into Jadeja’s trap. After missing a couple of sweeps, he tries yet again, only to get a top edge. An easy catch for Iyer at mid-square leg
Niroshan Dickwella c Iyer b Jadeja 2 (10)
Live Score; SL: 164/6
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10:34 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: OUT!
WHAT A REVIEW! Pant probably felt that was probably going up. But Rohit goes for it. magic from Bumrah. Slower offcutter, straightening from the fuller side of a length, and Asalanka is completely deceived.
Charith Asalanka lbw b Bumrah 29 (64)
Live Score; IND: 161/5
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10:29 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: FOUR RUNS!
GOOD SHOT, ASALANKA! A good-length ball, and it isn’t too far outside off stump, and he presses half-forward and drives on the up, into the vacant cover point region
Live Score; SL: 161/4
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10:27 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: FOUR RUNS!
50 partnership between Nissanka and Asalanka comes up with that four. Asalanka sweeps again, and nails it again. A flighted length ball pitching just outside off, and he hammers it in the air, over the vacant forward square leg region
Live Score; SL: 156/4
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10:21 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: 50 for Nissanka
Fifty! A couple of nervy moments, but he’s looked really good otherwise. Well played.
Live Score; SL: 148/4
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10:10 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: FOUR RUNS!
Nissanka moves to 49. Full, close to off stump, good stride forward, and meets it with an open face and soft hands to guide it away to the left of point.
Live Score; SL: 144/4
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10:06 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: FOUR RUNS!
Lose delivery from Bumrah. Bit short and wide. Nissanka rocks back and rolls his wrists over on top of the bounce to cut firmly, to the right of the man at point
Live Score; SL: 138/4
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10:00 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: FOUR RUNS!
Full, close to off stump, and Nissanka doesn’t get his head over the ball while playing the flick. Pops up in the air, at catching height, but finds the gap between mid-on and short midwicket
Live Score; SL: 133/4
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09:52 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: EDGED AND FOUR!
No one down there. Full, close to off stump, doesn’t quite get his weight fully forward into the checked cover drive, and the ball slices off the outside half of the bat and streaks away through the vacant gully region.
Live Score; SL: 120/4
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09:44 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: DROPPED!
Nissanka survives. Good effort from Shreyas Iyer. Ashwin floats up another outside off, and this one dips on Nissanka as he looks to step out and hit over mid-off. Ends up dragging it much wider than he wants, in the direction of deep square leg, and Iyer, running to his right and diving, can’t quite hold on
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09:40 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: FOUR RUNS!
First boundary of the morning. Drops a little short outside off, and Asalanka puts it away nicely. Rolls his wrists over the pull to find the gap to the right of long leg
Live Score; SL: 115/4
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09:30 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: ABOUT TIME!
The teams are out in the middle. The play will resume at any moment. Sri Lanka were 108 for four at stumps on Day 2, and trail India by 466 runs.
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08:04 (IST)
IND vs SL, 1st Test, Day 3 Live Updates: GOOD MORNING!
Hello and welcome to our Live coverage of Day 3 of the ongoing first Test between India and Sri Lanka from the IS Bindra Stadium in Mohali. Team India will eye a few early wickets, having taken four during the final session on Day 2. Sri Lanka, on the other hand, will hope that Pathum Nissanka and Chrith Asalanka can steady their ship. Stay tuned for all the exciting action.
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