Watch: Mayank Agarwal gets run out when Sri Lanka appeal for lbw in 2nd Test

Mayank Agarwal was expecting to do justice to his
selection in the second Test against Sri Lanka at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in
Bengaluru. At his home venue, all eyes were on him. In recent times, his form
has been no batter either. But at his home venue, he was dismissed bizarrely when
he was run out on Saturday in the pink-ball Test.

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The incident happened in the second over of India’s
innings in the day/night Test. In the fourth delivery of the match, Sri Lanka’s
Vishwa Fernando’s ball appeared to have hit Mayank’s pad first. The Sri Lankans
made an appeal for lbw but the umpire did not seem convinced and rejected the appeal.

As Sri Lankan players appealed, Mayank tried to snatch a
single without noticing that Praveen Jayawickrama had almost collected the
ball. Rohit, measuring the danger at the other end, sent Mayank back but the
right-hander had charged too far down the wicket. Jayawickrama lobbed it back
towards Sri Lanka keeper Niroshan Dickwella with Mayank having no chance to
return to the crease on time.

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Dickwella then started to signal for an LBW review,
before whipping the bails off. He took the bails off a moment later and made
the ‘T’ signal again but the third umpire informed that Fernando had
overstepped. Since it was a no-ball, the LBW appeal did not stand but the
run-out did as Mayank had to leave the field, with his skipper Rohit Sharma
wearing a bemused look on his face.

Earlier in the day/night Test, India captain Rohit Sharma
won the toss and elected to bat against Sri Lanka. For the second Test, India
made one change, bringing in a fit-again Axar Patel in place of Jayant Thakur
in the playing XI.

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Sri Lanka, on the other hand, were forced to make two
changes with Kusal Mendis and Praveen Jayawickrama replacing Pathum Nissanka
and Lahiru Kumara who were ruled out due to injuries.

In the first Test, India defeated Sri Lanka by an innings
and 222 runs.