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The two-match Test series between India and Sri Lanka has come to an end. In the first match of the series, which started in Mohali on March 4, India won the toss and elected to bat. Following that, India won the second match by 238 runs in the second match which started on March 12 in Bangalore.
The Indian team, led by Rohit Sharma, won the series 2-0 with a whitewash victory on home soil. Earlier in the day, India won the toss and elected to bat, scoring 252 in their first innings.
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Poor Sri Lanka:
Maximum Shreyas Iyer scored 92 and missed the chance to score a century. Following that, the Sri Lankans were bowled out for just 109, unable to compensate for India’s impressive bowling. Angelo Mathews top-scored for the team with 43 runs.
As a result, India, leading by 143 runs, declared when they were 303/9 in their second innings. Shreyas Iyer, who batted again for India, scored 67 runs. In the end, Sri Lanka captain Timothy Karunaratne single-handedly chased down the mammoth target of 447, scoring 107 to help India avoid defeat.
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However, the rest of the team could not respond to India’s bowling and lost the game by a paltry 208 runs. As a result, the team, which lost 3-0 to Whitewash in the first T20 series of the Sri Lankan tour of India, returned home disappointed as they could not record a single victory in the Test series.
Unannounced captain Bumra:
Shreyas Iyer won the man of the match award with 92 runs in the first innings and 67 runs in the second innings. He also became the first Indian to score a half-century in 2 innings in a match in a day-night Test.
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However it would not be an exaggeration to call Jaspreet Bhumira the undeclared captain of this match. This is because the pitch usually turns in favor of the spin bowler only after the 3rd day. But on the first day of the match in Bangalore, the spinning pitch gave way to the spin bowling. Jaspreet Bumra picked up the pink ball on the Bangalore pitch to give India a 143-run lead in the second innings with five wickets in hand. Due to that, the Indian team was able to record an easy victory in the end.
Bumra tops:
He also took 5 wickets for 24 runs in the first innings, setting a new record for the fastest Indian bowler in Test cricket history against Sri Lanka. He also took a total of 8 wickets in the tournament to become the highest wicket-taker in the World Test Championship 2021 – 2023 series. He has taken 9 wickets in 9 matches so far in this World Cup and is leading the way with 40 * wickets. He is followed by Pakistan’s Shaheen Afridi with 32 wickets.
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India also beat Sri Lanka 2-0 in the World Test Championship 2021-23 series, beating Whitewash 2-0 to finish 4th in the Test Championship points table.
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India are in 4th place with 58.33% points from 12 matches so far. Australia, Pakistan and South Africa are in the top 3 on the same points table. It is noteworthy that only the teams that finish in the top 2 on the points table will qualify for the final at the end of the league round of this World Cup, which will be held like this until 2023.
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