IND vs SL 2nd Test: Team India bowl out Sri Lanka for 290 runs on Day 4

In the second Test match against Team India, Sri Lanka was bowled out for 290 runs in 89.4 overs on Day 4 at the Sinhalese Sports Club Cricket Ground in Colombo.

With this, the hosts could not prevent the follow-on that India imposed and are trailing by 213 runs. fishroad-app.com

Sonal Dinusha delivered a crucial knock of 103 runs in 162 balls, including eight boundaries and three maximums. Keshara Nuwantha managed to score 18 runs in 74 balls, including two boundaries and a maximum. Lahiru Kumara accumulated 12 runs off 58 balls, with the help of two boundaries. Asitha Fernando stayed unbeaten on one run in four balls.

Team India's Prasidh Krishna and Manav Suthar claimed three wickets each. Having bowled 16 overs, Krishna conceded 52 runs, whereas Suthar leaked 85 runs in 22 overs. Saransh Jain also bagged two wickets. Mohammed Siraj and Ravindra Jadeja registered one wicket each to their names.

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IND vs SL 2nd Test: Sri Lanka's batsmen performances

Earlier, Sri Lanka's opening batsman Lahiru Udara was dismissed on one run in six balls. Fellow opening batsman Kamil Mishara departed after scoring 19 runs in 25 balls, including three boundaries. Prabath Jayasuriya registered two runs in seven balls.

Pasindu Sooriyabandara garnered 80 runs off 133 deliveries. His knock was laced with nine boundaries. Kamindu Mendis returned to the pavilion after accumulating 32 runs in 58 balls, with the help of three boundaries and a maximum. Captain Dhananjaya de Silva scored eight runs in 14 balls, including two boundaries. Wicketkeeper-batsman Niroshan Dickwella was dismissed on a three-ball duck.

The ongoing Test series is one of the important series for Team India in the ongoing World Test Championship (WTC) cycle. The win in the second Test match against Sri Lanka will be crucial for Team India to keep hopes alive for the WTC final.

Shubman Gill-led men are leading the two-match Test series by 1-0 against Sri Lanka.

Currently placed fifth in the points table, two-time finalists Team India are locked in an uphill battle to win the majority of their remaining matches in the World Test Championship 2025-2027 and move up.

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Despite prising out six wickets in the 80.4 overs of play possible at the SSC ground on Tuesday, India will not necessarily look back at the middle day of the second Test with total satisfaction.

Their plans of forcing Sri Lanka on to the back foot thwarted by a combination of obdurate batting and a pitch that slowed down considerably, Shubman Gill’s men have a big task ahead of them in their bid to force an outright victory over the next two days.

Overnight 8-2 in reply to the visitors’ 503-9 declared, Sri Lanka found their heroes in Pasindu Sooriyabandara and the increasingly impressive Sonal Dinusha, who put their heads down and batted with poise and composure to baulk an Indian attack that at times seemed short on penetration.

Pacer Prasidh Krishna was India’s most dangerous bowler but there wasn’t a great deal on offer from the three-pronged spin attack, even though Manav Suthar matched Prasidh with three wickets in Sri Lanka’s end-of-day tally of 265-8. India are 238 ahead but since they have already bowled nearly 84 overs, Gill has a tough choice to make should he have the option of enforcing the follow on. More rain is forecast over the last two days, adding another dynamic to the mix.

India began the day brightly enough when Prasidh had debutant Kamil Mishara caught behind inside the first hour, but Sooriyabandara and Kamindu Mendis offered staunch resistance while adding 87 for the fourth wicket. The former, who debuted as a concussion substitute for Dinesh Chandimal in the second innings in Galle last week and fell first ball, played his strokes without inhibition while Mendis looked to have bedded in for the long haul when, with lunch around the corner, he pulled Prasidh tamely to mid-wicket.

Skipper Dhananjaya de Silva fell cheaply to Suthar and Sooriyabandara’s long vigil ended in unfortunate fashion when he chopped Ravindra Jadeja on to his stumps off his back leg. Nirshohan Dickwella was strangled down leg by Mohammed Siraj, but Dinusha, who made 100 and 84 in the first Test, found excellent support from Keshara Nuwantha and then Lahiru Kumara.

Nuwantha was finally dismissed attempting a big stroke, caught by Saransh Jain, the off-spinner who had a disappointing first day in office. But Dinusha, who swept with purpose and clarity, and Kumara, who saw off 50 deliveries, baulked India before bad light forced a halt to the proceedings.

Brief scores
India 503-9d vs SL 265-8 (S Dinusha 85*, P Sooriyabandara 80, K Mendis 32; P Krishna 3-47, M Suthar 3-83)

IND VS SL 2nd Test Colombo Update: टीम इंडिया के विकेटकीपर बल्लेबाज ऋषभ पंत की चोट पर बड़ी अपडेट सामने आई है। गेंदबाजी कोच मोर्ने मोर्केल ने बताया है कि वह चौथे दिन विकेटकीपिंग कर सकते हैं। कोलंबो टेस्ट के पहले दिन पंत को कंधे में चोट लगी थी, जिसके बाद उन्हें रिटायर्ड हर्ट होना पड़ा था। बाद में वह बल्लेबाजी करने जरूर आए लेकिन जब श्रीलंका की पारी शुरू हुई तो उनकी जगह ध्रुव जुरेल को विकेट के पीछे जिम्मेदारी संभालनी पड़ी। हालांकि मार्केल को उम्मीद है कि चौथे दिन के खेल से पहले वह चोट से उबर जाएंगे।

All-rounder Shreyanka Patil, 24, who is not part of India’s squad for the Women’s Asia Cup (Aug 28 – Sept 13) as she’s recovering from a severe ankle, headed out for an evening with her former Royal Challengers Bengaluru teammate and friend Raghvi Bist, 21, recently.

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Patil sustained the injury during the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in June. On Tuesday, she Instagrammed this picture alongside Bist to her 5.2 million followers. “Just us being us. Just having fun,” she captioned the post, which received over half-a-million ‘likes’.

Batter Bist has played two WT20Is for India in 2024.