Clinical India thrashed Sri Lanka by 238 runs in the second Test, which was a day/night pink-ball Test, on Monday at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. India’s win means Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne’s valiant second innings effort of 107  went in vain. 

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Chasing a mammoth 447 runs target set by India, Sri Lanka were bowled out for 208 in their second innings. Ravichandran Ashwin picked up four wickets, and a total of six in the match. 

Resuming their innings on day 3 on an overnight score of 28 for 1, Kusal Mendis and Karunaratne forged a 96-run partnership before Ashwin got the scalp of the latter to break the partnership.  

As the partnership broke, the rest of the Sri Lankan batters failed to tackle Ashwin and Jasprit Bumrah, who picked up three wickets after a fifer in the first innings. 

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Ashwin returned with 4 four for 55 in Sri Lanka’s second innings while Bumrah added three wickets to his first innings exploits, including the wicket of Karunaratne as Sri Lanka’s fight came to end in the 60th over.

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

In the pink-ball Test, Shreyas Iyer top-scored with an 87-ball 67 while star wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant struck a counter-attacking 31-ball 50. Captain Rohit Sharma contributed 46. Before being dismissed Pant’s 28-ball fifty saw him breaking Kapil Dev’s 40-year-old India record of fastest Test fifty.

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For Sri Lanka, Praveen Jayawickrama was the most successful bowler with figures of 4/78 while Lasith Embuldeniya took three wickets.

Earlier, in reply to India’s first innings total of 252, Sri Lanka were all out for 109 from 35.5 overs with pacer Jasprit Bumrah (5/24) claiming his maiden fifer on Indian soil, while Ashwin and Mohammed Shami took two wickets apiece. Playing in his 29th Test, Bumrah took his eighth fifer.

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Sri Lanka resumed at 86 for six but their innings lasted for just 5.5 overs on Sunday, losing Lasith Embuldeniya (1), Suranga Lakmal (5), Niroshan Dickwella (21) and Vishwa Fernando (8) with the addition of just 23 runs.