Live Cricket Score, India vs Sri Lanka, 3rd Test: Virat Kohli's men will look to seal series against a young and inexperienced Sri Lankan side in the third Test at Kotla, Delhi.
Riding on a 283-run third wicket stand between Murali Vijay (155) and Virat Kohli (156 not out), the hosts dominated the day 1 of third Test before chinaman Lakshan Sandakan's twin strikes helped Sri Lanka recover.
Kohli's 156*, who is on a record-breaking spree, smashed his 20th hundred in the company of Murali Vijay 155 as they added 283 runs for the third wicket against Sri Lanka.
All-rounder de Grandhomme scored the second-fastest Test century by a New Zealander in a 148-run seventh wicket stand with Tom Blundell who became the third Kiwi wicketkeeper to make a half-century on his Test debut.
Skipper Virat Kohli and opener Murali Vijay knitted a mammoth 283-run stand for the third wicket to help hosts dominate against Sri Lanka on day 1 of the third and final Test at Kotla, Delhi.
England skipper Joe Root expressed confidence that Moeen would play in the second Test irrespective of he was able to bowl or not.
The New Zealand team will play only four Tests at home this summer — two against the West Indies over the next two weeks and two against England in March in a season otherwise heavy with one-day and T20 Internationals.
Ashwin became the fastest bowler to reach the milestone of 300 Test wickets in his 54th match, breaking Dennis Lillee's record during India's comprehensive win over Sri Lanka in the second Test.
Rohit Sharma will take on the leadership duties from Kohli in the three-match ODI series against Sri Lanka beginning on December 10 in Dharamsala.
Playing his first Test in more than a year after recovering from a career-threatening injury, Rohit scored his first hundred in the longest format in more than four years.
Ravichandran Ashwin surpassed Dennis Lillee to become the fastest bowler to capture 300 Test wickets as he helped India thrash Sri Lanka by an innings and 239 runs to win the second Test in Nagpur on Monday.
Ravichandran Ashwin, who had a match-haul of 8 for 130, bowled Sri Lanka's Lahiru Gamage with a doosra to bring down curtains on one of the most lop-sided Test matches in recent times.
The unbroken 173-run stand between Warner and Bancroft, who is playing his first Test, was the biggest opening partnership in a successful fourth-innings run chase in Test cricket, according to Cricinfo.
Ravichandran Ashwin picked up another four-for as India decimated Sri Lanka by an innings and 239 runs to take the 1-0 lead in the three-match Test series in Nagpur on Monday.
Skipper Virat Kohli (213) scored his fifth Test double hundred while Rohit Sharma (102 not out) scored his third century as India declared their first innings at 610/6, taking a mammoth lead of 405 against Sri Lanka on day three in Nagpur.
Now, Kohli also holds the record for the most number of centuries by an Indian skipper (12 tons), moving ahead of the legendary Sunil Gavaskar (11 hundreds).
Shanaka was found to have breached Article 2.2.9 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which relates to "changing the condition of the ball in breach of clause 41.3."
Top News
Latest News
