Sri Lanka lost 16 wickets on day 3 of the 1st Test on their tour of India to hand the hosts a comfortable win by an innings and 222 runs.
The day began in hopeful fashion for the visitors as Pathum Nissanka and Charith Asalanka negotiated the 1st hour of play with minimal effort, seeing off Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah and Ravichandran Ashwin with a partnership of 58 runs for the 5th wicket.
A tight LBW decision went in India’s favour on review to dismiss Asalanka but Nissanka continued to look comfortable in the middle on his way to another half-century – his 6th 50+ score in 11 innings.
But things quickly turned India’s way thanks to some loose cricket from Sri Lanka’s lower- middle order. The hosts set the trap for Niroshan Dickwella, with two fielders out on the sweep and Sri Lanka’s gloveman obliged with a top edge straight down square leg’s throat before Suranga Lakmal played hoick off Jadeja to mid-off in the same over as Sri Lanka went from 161/4 to 164/7. Utterly abysmal, considering how well Nissanka was playing at the other end.
They were eventually bowled out for 174, losing their last 6 wickets for 13 runs, one short of Jadeja’s first innings score of 175.
Sri Lanka were asked to follow on and things started badly, Lahiru Thirimanne the first man to fall, once again to Ashwin, who has claimed his wicket 7 times in 12 innings.
Karunaratne, Mathews, Asalanka and De Silva all got starts but couldn’t stick around, on a pitch that wasn’t doing too much. Dickwella redeemed himself somewhat with a half-century, but it was all too little too late for the visitors, who barely avoided their heaviest defeat in tests (innings and 239 runs vs India in Kanpur, 2017).
Jadeja was the man of the moment, narrowly missing out on becoming the 1st man to make a 150+ score and get a 10-fer in a Test, finishing with figures of 5/41 and 4/46 to back his 175 with the bat.
The 2nd Test between the sides is set to commence on the 12th of March in Bangalore.
Result
| Batsmen | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayank Agarwal | lbw b Lasith Embuldeniya | 33 | 49 | 5 | 0 | 67.35 |
| Rohit Sharma | c Suranga Lakmal b Lahiru Kumara | 29 | 28 | 6 | 0 | 103.57 |
| Hanuma Vihari | b Vishwa Fernando | 58 | 128 | 5 | 0 | 45.31 |
| Virat Kohli | b Lasith Embuldeniya | 45 | 76 | 5 | 0 | 59.21 |
| Rishabh Pant | b Suranga Lakmal | 96 | 97 | 9 | 4 | 98.97 |
| Shreyas Iyer | lbw b Dhananjaya de Silva | 27 | 48 | 3 | 0 | 56.25 |
| Ravindra Jadeja | not out | 175 | 228 | 17 | 3 | 76.75 |
| Ravichandran Ashwin | c Niroshan Dickwella b Suranga Lakmal | 61 | 82 | 8 | 0 | 74.39 |
| Jayant Yadav | c Lahiru Thirimanne b Vishwa Fernando | 2 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 11.11 |
| Mohammed Shami | not out | 20 | 34 | 3 | 0 | 58.82 |
| Extras | 28 (b 4 , lb 12 , nb 12, w 0, pen 0) |
| Total | 574/8 (129.2 Overs, RR: 4.44) |
| Fall of Wickets | 1-52 (9.5) Rohit Sharma, 2-80 (18.3) Mayank Agarwal, 3-170 (43.3) Virat Kohli, 4-175 (46.3) Hanuma Vihari, 5-228 (61.1) Shreyas Iyer, 6-332 (80.5) Rishabh Pant, 7-462 (109.4) Ravichandran Ashwin, 8-471 (113.6) Jayant Yadav, |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suranga Lakmal | 25 | 1 | 90 | 2 | 3.60 | |
| Vishwa Fernando | 26 | 1 | 135 | 2 | 5.19 | |
| Lahiru Kumara | 10.5 | 1 | 52 | 1 | 4.95 | |
| Lasith Embuldeniya | 46 | 3 | 188 | 2 | 4.09 | |
| Dhananjaya de Silva | 18.2 | 1 | 79 | 1 | 4.34 | |
| Charith Asalanka | 3.1 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 4.52 | |
| Batsmen | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dimuth Karunaratne | lbw b Ravindra Jadeja | 28 | 71 | 5 | 0 | 39.44 |
| Lahiru Thirimanne | lbw b Ravichandran Ashwin | 17 | 60 | 1 | 0 | 28.33 |
| Pathum Nissanka | not out | 61 | 133 | 11 | 0 | 45.86 |
| Angelo Mathews | lbw b Jasprit Bumrah | 22 | 39 | 1 | 1 | 56.41 |
| Dhananjaya de Silva | lbw b Ravichandran Ashwin | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 12.50 |
| Charith Asalanka | lbw b Jasprit Bumrah | 29 | 64 | 5 | 0 | 45.31 |
| Niroshan Dickwella | c Shreyas Iyer b Ravindra Jadeja | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 |
| Suranga Lakmal | c Ravichandran Ashwin b Ravindra Jadeja | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Lasith Embuldeniya | c Mayank Agarwal b Mohammed Shami | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Vishwa Fernando | c Rohit Sharma b Ravindra Jadeja | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Lahiru Kumara | b Ravindra Jadeja | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Extras | 14 (b 0 , lb 6 , nb 8, w 0, pen 0) |
| Total | 174/10 (65 Overs, RR: 2.68) |
| Fall of Wickets | 1-48 (18.2) Lahiru Thirimanne, 2-59 (24.2) Dimuth Karunaratne, 3-96 (33.6) Angelo Mathews, 4-103 (38.1) Dhananjaya de Silva, 5-161 (57.6) Charith Asalanka, 6-164 (60.4) Niroshan Dickwella, 7-164 (60.6) Suranga Lakmal, 8-173 (63.3) Lasith Embuldeniya, 9-174 (64.5) Vishwa Fernando, 10-174 (64.6) Lahiru Kumara, |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mohammed Shami | 12 | 5 | 27 | 1 | 2.25 | |
| Jasprit Bumrah | 14 | 3 | 36 | 2 | 2.57 | |
| Ravichandran Ashwin | 20 | 7 | 49 | 2 | 2.45 | |
| Jayant Yadav | 6 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 2.50 | |
| Ravindra Jadedja | 13 | 4 | 41 | 5 | 3.15 | |
| Batsmen | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lahiru Thirimanne | c Rohit Sharma b Ravichandran Ashwin | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Dimuth Karunaratne | c Rishab Pant b Mohammed Shami | 27 | 42 | 6 | 0 | 64.29 |
| Pathum Nissanka | c Rishab Pant b Ravichandran Ashwin | 6 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 31.58 |
| Angelo Mathews | lbw b | 28 | 75 | 2 | 1 | 37.33 |
| Dhananjaya de Silva | c Shreyas Iyer b Ravindra Jadeja | 30 | 58 | 5 | 0 | 51.72 |
| Charith Asalanka | c Virat Kohli b Ravichandran Ashwin | 20 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 222.22 |
| Niroshan Dickwella | not out | 51 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 62.96 |
| Suranga Lakmal | c Jayant Yadav b Ravindra Jadedja | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Lasith Embuldeniya | c Rishab Pant b Ravindra Jadeja | 2 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 4.76 |
| Vishwa Fernando | lbw b Mohammed Shami | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Lahiru Kumara | c Mohammed Shami b Ravichandran Ashwin | 4 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 28.57 |
| Extras | 10 (b 4 , lb 5 , nb 1, w 0, pen 0) |
| Total | 178/10 (60 Overs, RR: 2.97) |
| Fall of Wickets | 1-9 (2.3) Lahiru Thirimanne, 2-19 (6.5) Pathum Nissanka, 3-45 (15.5) Dimuth Karunaratne, 4-94 (32.5) Dhananjaya de Silva, 5-121 (35.3) Charith Asalanka, 6-121 (36.2) Angelo Mathews, 7-121 (36.5) Suranga Lakmal, 8-153 (50.6) Lasith Embuldeniya, 9-170 (53.6) Vishwa Fernando, 10-178 (59.6) Lahiru Kumara, |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ravichandran Ashwin | 21 | 5 | 47 | 4 | 2.24 | |
| Mohammed Shami | 8 | 1 | 48 | 2 | 6.00 | |
| Ravindra Jadedja | 16 | 5 | 46 | 4 | 2.88 | |
| Jayant Yadav | 11 | 3 | 21 | 0 | 1.91 | |
| Jasprit Bumrah | 4 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 1.75 | |
