Five-star Jadeja hands India eighth unbroken array victory
Unstoppable: Ravidra Jadeja constructed match-winning opening after claiming 5-152 on a penultimate day of a second Test opposite Sri Lanka. PHOTO: AFP
COLOMBO: Left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja pennyless a behind of Sri Lanka’s insurgency after lunch on fourth day to secure India’s series-clinching feat by an innings and 53 runs in a second Test on Sunday.
The all-rounder claimed his ninth five-wicket transport as Sri Lanka, forced to follow on after being shot out for 183 in a initial innings, done 386 in a second before collapsing mins before a tea mangle on a penultimate day.
It was a initial feat by an innings or some-more for India in Sri Lanka and, following their biggest feat by runs in Galle final week, ensured an eighth true array delight underneath Virat Kohli.
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“We pronounced this morning that even if we don’t get wickets early on, we are going to suffer a tough times since they unequivocally urge we as a side and we need those tough times to urge as cricketers,” pronounced Kohli. “We were unequivocally happy that we went by that formidable proviso as well, for we never wish to get restored as a side.”
Kohli will imagination equalling Australia’s complicated epoch record of 9 uninterrupted Test array wins when India horde Sri Lanka for 3 matches after this year.
Sri Lanka will take a modicom of certainty into that array from a second innings resurgence that was built around a 191-run mount between Dimuth Karunaratne and Kusal Mendis, who fell for 110 on Saturday.
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Lefthander Karunaratne’s wooer 141 merely behind a unavoidable on Sunday, though, as Jadeja (5-152) and spin partner Ravichandran Ashwin (2-132) worried Sri Lanka on a worn-out lane where a round spun alarmingly and mostly kicked off.
Sri Lanka had resumed a fourth day on 209-2 during a Sinhalese Sports Cricket Ground with Karunaratne stability his grave conflict with a Indian bowlers.
Nightwatchman Malinda Pushpakumara threw divided his wicket, attempting a weird retreat toil opposite Jadeja who discharged Sri Lanka skipper Dinesh Chandimal for dual in his subsequent over.
Karunaratne and former captain Angelo Mathews resisted India for a while during a 69-run mount though Jadeja returned to mutilate Sri Lanka after a lunch break.
Karunaratne’s daring knock, that enclosed 16 boundaries, came to a vicious finish when he was presented with an unplayable smoothness that reared up, strike his gloves and ballooned into a atmosphere for Ajinkya Rahane to locate behind a wicketkeeper.
Mathews followed next, circumference Jadeja to decay held behind for 36 and Hardik Pandya claimed a integrate of late wickets to dive Sri Lanka’s collapse.
“We were outplayed in a initial innings both with bat and ball,” pronounced Chandimal after his group mislaid another Test inside usually 4 days. “Credit goes to them, they batted brilliantly in a initial innings and put us underneath outrageous pressure. I’m unequivocally happy a approach guys played in a second innings.”
Jadeja, who crushed 70 not out and claimed 7 wickets from a Test, was adjudged man-of-the-match.
Rahane was a splendid difference in India’s differently bad throwing display, grabbing 4 in Sri Lanka’s second innings alone.
Wriddhiman Saha also shone behind a stumps, holding a integrate of fantastic catches, fulfilment a stumping and surrender usually 4 byes on a representation where a round frequently misbehaved.
Pallekele hosts a passed rubber third and final Test from Saturday. Reuters
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