Live Cricket Score, India vs Sri Lanka, 3rd Test, Day 4: Virat Kohli-Rohit Sharma salvage India against Sri Lanka

Live Cricket Score, India vs Sri Lanka: India take on Sri Lanka on Day 4 of the third and final Test in Colombo. (Source: AP)

India badly need a partnership after being reduced to 7/3 on Day 3 and Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have ensured that no further inroads could be made by the Sri Lanka pacers. Despite conceding a 120 run lead, Sri Lanka are still very much in the game. Catch the Live Updates and score of the match here. 

Live Cricket Scorecard: India vs Sri Lanka

Live Updates

1035 hrs IST: That’s 50-run partnership between Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma for the 4th wicket.

1030 hrs IST: That’s 50 for India and their lead is now 161.

1028 hrs IST: Huge shout by Mathews&Co. and Rohit Sharma survives yet another LBW appeal.

1011 hrs IST: Spinner into the attack, Herath needs to break this stand.

1009 hrs IST: Virat Kohli is very slow to get off the blocks. Kohli is at 8 and played 30 balls for that. Rohit on other hand is at 15 off just 22 balls.

Fabulous day’s test cricket in prospect. Opportunity to show skill in demanding conditions. Performers can’t ask for more. #SLvsInd

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1004 hrs IST: Virat Kohli miscued this one from Dhammika Prasad but didn’t carry to the fielder.

0957 hrs IST: Huge shout! But umpire not interested. Prasad bowls an in-swinger and hits the pads of Sharma who looked clueless!

0951 hrs IST: Virat Kohli looking good, a solid back-foot defence and then lunges forward to drive Prasad through the covers.

0946 hrs IST: India 21/3, another wicket can cause trouble here.

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Day 3 Recap

The picture of the day at SSC

Live Cricket Score, India vs Sri Lanka: For India, Ishant Sharma was the pick of the bowlers with figures of 5/54. (Source: AP)

FOR a brief period on Sunday, the Indian team might have felt like they had been revisited by a dreaded ghost from the past. Of course, none of the Indian bowlers in the present mix had ever come across this mythical character on the field — not in Sri Lankan colours anyway.

Domestic set-up to blame for Sri Lanka collapses

Live Cricket Score, India vs Sri Lanka: Kusal Perera scored 55 runs against India on Sunday at SSC, Colombo.

IT was February 2014, and the England Lions had just finished a month-long tour to Sri Lanka. It was a team made up of those who would eventually go on to play for England or had already appeared in a game or two.
Sanath Jayasuriya and I were pioneers, nowadays all batsmen are freaks: Romesh Kaluwitharana

Live Cricket Score, India vs Sri Lanka: Former Sri Lanka wicketkeeper Romesh Kaluwitharana now runs a boutique hotel in Kalusare.

BEFORE T20 cricket, and long before batsmen started pressing on the fifth gear from the word go, there was Romesh Kaluwitharana setting the precedent. These days the diminutive former Sri Lankan wicket-keeper and World Cup winner is busy coaching the fringe players in the country.