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India vs SL 2nd Test Highlights: IND win by 238 runs to seal 2-0 series whitewash
Follow Live score and updates of India vs Sri Lanka 2nd Test Day 3 taking place at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Monday (March 14).
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India win the Pink-Ball Test
India whitewash Sri Lanka as they are all out for 208 runs in the 2nd innings. It took India just 3 days in the 5 days Test match to win the Test series against Sri Lanka 2-0.
Lakmal OUT!
Suranga Lakmal, who was playing his last Test match for Sri Lanka, departs for 1 (4) bowled by Jasprit Bumrah. Excellent delivery by the right-arm fast bowler, right in the yorker zone.
Sri Lanka 208/9, India need 1 wicket to win
India need 2 wickets to win
Another wicket falls after the Sri Lanka skipper departs, Embuldeniya gone for 2 off 22 balls. R Ashwin gets his 3rd wicket as India closein on victory.
Sri Lanka-206/8 (57.3 overs)
BUMRAH STRIKES!
Jasprit Bumrah gets the Sri Lanka skipper OUT. Dimuth Karunaratne departs for 107 off 174 balls, great bowling by Bumrah to get the wicket India were looking for.
Sri Lanka-204/7 , India need 3 wickets to win
SL captain Karunaratne completes 100
Sri Lanka skipper Dimuth Karunaratne completes century. Great innings by the left-hander, walked in at a pressure situation when his team needed a captain knock.
Sri Lanka-200/6 (55 overs), Dimuth 107 (169) & Embuldeniya 2 (14)
AXAR STRIKES AGAIN!
Left-arm spinner Axar Patel gets another wicket for India as Asalanka depart for 5 runs off 20 balls. India in the commanding seat now as Sri Lanka keep bundling out wickets.
Sri Lanka- 180/6 (49.5 overs), Dimuth 89 (152), India need 4 wickets to win
OUT! India need 5 wickets to win now
Axar Patel gets first wicket of the second innings, out-smarts Dickwella for 12 runs of 39 balls. Sri Lanka in trouble now as wickets keep falling in quick succession for them. Charith Asalanka walks in at no.6 for Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka-160/5, Dimuth 74 (125)
Day3- Sri Lanka- 151/4 at Tea, need 296 runs to win
Sri Lanka are looking to win the Pink-Ball Test with captain Dimuth Karunaratne at the crease with Niroshan Dickwella. Two wickets in quick succession by the Indian spin-twins Jadeja and Ashwin got the pressure on Sri Lanka again.
Karunaratne 67 (110) & Dickwella 10 (36)
Karunaratne completes FIFTY
Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne completes his half-century. Well played by the skipper to keep his team in the contest, India are looking to end the match today itself and need 6 wickets to do so.
Sri Lanka- 131/4, need 316 runs to win
India fishing for wickets
Team India are hunting for wickets as they look to beat Sri Lanka in the Pink-Ball Test after a contesting start to Day 3.
Sri Lanka- 113/4 , India need 6 wickets to win
Double break for India
Ravindra Jadeja strikes in next over, gets through Angelo Mathews's bat-pad. Mathews gone for 1 and Sri Lanka are 98/3 in 21st over.
Ashwin gets Mendis!
Ravichandran Ashwin has provided the big breakthrough. Kusal Mendis is out stumped immediately after reaching his 50. Mendis out for 54 off 60 balls as Sri Lanka are 97/2 in 20th over.
Kusal Mendis reaches 50
Kusal Mendis has raced to his 12th Test fifty off just 57 balls. Sri Lanka are 91/1 in 19 overs.
Lanka move past 50
Sri Lanka have moved along to 55/1 with Kusal Mendis getting his 5th boundary to move along to 28 off 36 balls.
Ashwin replaces Jadeja
Ravichandran Ashwin has replaced Ravindra Jadeja after just one over. Kusal Mendis gets another boundary off Ashwin to move along to 22 off 32 balls, Sri Lanka are 47/1 in 10 overs.
Ravindra Jadeja starts proceedings on Day 3
Ravindra Jadeja has started the proceedings on Day 3 of the Test. Lankan skipper Dimuth Karunaratne jumps down the track and clips him past mid-on for 4 to move to 14 and then gets a streaky boundary past Virat Kohli at 1st slip. Karunaratne moves to 19 and Sri Lanka are 37/1 in 8 overs.
Jasprit Bumrah enjoys first 5-wicket haul in India
Jasprit Bumrah picked up his first five-wicket haul at home, claiming 5/24 in the first innings. Vice-captain Bumrah already has one wicket in the second, can he complete a maiden 10-wicket haul in Tests?
Hello and welcome to our coverage of Day 3 of the India vs Sri Lanka Pink Ball Test in Bengaluru on Monday (March 14).
Sri Lanka are 28/1 at stumps on Day 2 and needed 419 runs to beat India in the second and final Pink Ball Test at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bengaluru on Sunday (March 14). Resuming their second innings from 199/5 after the dinner break, India added 104 more runs in the third session before declaring on 303/9 in the second innings and setting a target of 447 runs for Sri Lanka to win.
Shreyas Iyer top-scored for India 67 while Rishabh Pant brought up the fastest Test fifty by an Indian off just 28 balls. On the other hand, spinner Praveen Jayawickrama was Sri Lanka`s highest wicket-taker with 4/78 while Lasith Embuldeniya picked three wickets (3/87).
Chasing a target of 447 runs to win, Sri Lanka got off to a poor start as they lost the wicket of Lahiru Thirimanne (0) in the very first over of the innings bowled by Jasprit Bumrah. However, Kusal Mendis (16 not out) and Dimuth Karunaratne (10 not out) played out the rest of the overs of the day and didn`t let India pick any wicket further.
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