Live Cricket Score, India vs Sri Lanka, 2nd Test, Day 4
India will aim to snatch Colombo Test and level the series 1-1 when they take field on Day 4 of the second Test match on Sunday. India are in a good position after finishing Day 2 at 70/1 and with a healthy lead of 157 runs. With nine wickets still intact, they would like to put it beyond Sri Lanka and will try to give them a mammoth total to chase in the fourth innings by the end of the day. Catch live updates and score from the match HERE.
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Turning point: Amit Mishra spins it his way
Live Cricket Score, India vs Sri Lanka: Amit Mishra took 4/43 in the first innings.
IT was the kind of delivery you would be expected to bowl to your five-year-old nephew who’s holding a bat twice his size. Based solely on the pace it was bowled at and the teasing, almost mocking, flight with which it was tossed up. Instead it was a Test batsman, well a tail-ender who can hold his bat, who was at the receiving end.
Why do we make so much of Virat Kohli’s captaincy? asks Sunil Gavaskar
Live Cricket Score, India vs Sri Lanka: India are yet to win a Test under Virat Kohli’s leadership. (Source: Reuters)
Praising India for the favourable position they find themseleves in against Sri Lanka, former captain Sunil Gavaskar said that the second new ball made Ishant Sharma turn it around for the visitors in the ongoing second Test.
Ishant Sharma’s spell with new ball was important on a slow track, says Amit Mishra
Live Cricket Score, India vs Sri Lanka: Ishant Sharma bowled well with the second new ball and returned with impressive figures of 2/68. (Source: AP)
Having taken an upper hand in the second Test by earning a healthy lead, India leg spinner Amit Mishra today said that his team will now look to set a target of 350-plus for Sri Lanka.
