- Sri Lanka's innings all out for 284 runs
- Sri Lanka team trailing by 178 runs
- The Indian team has a big lead
India Vs Sri Lanka 1st Test Match Live Updates: Currently, the Indian cricket team is on a tour of Sri Lanka. The first match of the two-Test series is currently being played. Today is the third day of this match. India batted first and set up a mountain of 462 runs. After that the bowlers of India have also shown their brilliant performance. The Indian team has managed to bowl out the Sri Lankan team for 284 all out. IndiaDay leads by 178 runs.
The Indian team had decided to bat first. India scored 462 runs on the strength of Devdutt Padikal's brilliant knock of 167 runs. He was well supported by Dhruv Jurel who scored a half-century. KL Rahul played a brilliant knock of 82 runs. The rest of the batsmen appeared to be a bit of a failure. After that, the Sri Lankan team came out to bat in pursuit of 462 runs.
The Sri Lankan team got off to a poor start. Mohammad Siraj gave Sri Lanka the first blow in the very first over. Sri Lanka's position was 99 for 5 wickets. Nishan Fernando was dismissed for a wicket. Lahiru Udara was dismissed for 27 runs. Dinesh Chandima got out after scoring only 4 runs.
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Then Kamindu Mendis scored 14 runs. Captain Dhananjaya de Silva scored 21 runs. He despaired. But Sonal Dinusha scored a brilliant century. So the Sri Lankan team has made a bit of a comeback. Niroshan Dickwella also played a dignified innings of 80 runs. It was seen that the rest of the batsmen failed miserably.
Two wickets in quick succession!
Ravindra Jadeja
Manav Suthar
Sri Lanka lose their 9th wicket.
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The Indian bowling hit perfectly. So Sri Lanka's innings was all out for 284 runs. Manav Suthar bowled brilliantly and took 4 important wickets. While Mohammad Siraj, famous Krishna took 1 wicket each. While Kuldeep Yadav took one wicket and Ravindra Jadeja took 3 wickets.
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