Live Cricket Score, India vs Sri Lanka, 3rd Test, Day 5

Live Cricket Score, India vs Sri Lanka, 3rd Test, Day 5: India eye series win against Sri Lanka in third on Tuesday. (Source: Reuters)

India, seven wickets away from a historic win, will look to wrap up the Sri Lanka innings as soon as possible and claim their first series win in Sri Lanka after 22 years. For the hosts, still 319 run behind the 386-run target, Angelo Mathews and Kaushal Silva will look to avoid the defeat. Catch the live cricket score and live cricket updates from the India vs Sri Lanka Test match here.

Live Cricket Scorecard: India vs Sri Lanka

Live updates

0943 hrs IST: Angelo Mathews and Kaushal Silva will resume for Sri Lanka.

0940 hrs IST: Sri Lanka will resume at 67/3, still needing 319 runs for a win while India need seven wickets.

0935 hrs IST: We are 10 minutes away from start of play on what promises to be an exciting day of cricket.

 

Recap Day 4

India need seven wickets, Sri Lanka miracle

Live Cricket Score, India vs Sri Lanka, 3rd Test, Day 5: Ishant Sharma was at his animated best, both during his stint with the bat and ball. (Source: Reuters)

SO far during this Test series, whenever it’s been time for Rohit Sharma to walk out to bat, you would have thought it is a prima donna whose arrival is imminent. For, such has been the level of expectancy surrounding each of his entrances.

It’s the kind of anticipation you expect just before a maverick performer is about to take the stage. Will he be imperious and enthrall or will be impudent and infuriate? You’ll never know till it is show-time. Like you never know with Rohit.

The argumentative Indian versus the hot-headed Sri Lankan

Live Cricket Score, India vs Sri Lanka, 3rd Test, Day 5: Ishant Sharma gestures to Dhammika Prasad, ostensibly telling the bowler to aim for his head on Day Four of the third Test at the SSC on Monday. (Source: AP)

Before Monday, Test cricket had witnessed its fair share of ridiculous and outrageous wicket-celebrations, and more so from its fast bowlers. If one would morph into a mock aeroplane, there was another who used to start an invisible lawn-mower. There were some who would put their finger to the lips after having mouthed off a plethora of expletives in the build-up to the dismissal, some of these brutes have even dared to blow kisses of death at their victim. Never before, had we quite seen a pacer turn masochistic while celebrating his victim’s downfall.

Stats: Batsmen suffer as bowlers improve individual records

Live Cricket Score, India vs Sri Lanka, 3rd Test, Day 5: Virat Kohli is averaging 21.80 in the third match innings as compared to his average of 27.72 in the first match innings. (Source: AP)

Statistical highlights on the fourth day of the third and final cricket Test between India and Sri Lanka in Colombo on Monday.

Live Cricket Score, India vs Sri Lanka, 3rd Test, Day 5: Rohit Sharma admitted that all the tracks in this Test series has been of different nature. (Source: Reuters)

“Nowhere written that No. 4 belongs to this person, No. 3 belongs to that person”

There was a lot of criticism from all quarters when Rohit Sharma was moved down the batting order from one drop to No 5 but the talented right-hander is of the opinion that “no one owns any particular batting slot” in this team.

Rohit ended the Test series as the second highest run-getter (202 runs) behind skipper Virat Kohli with his second half-century in the series.