India has won the toss and Rohit Sharma has elected to bat first. Due to dry conditions, India persists with 2 seamers and 3 spinners. Axar Patel is fit and replaces Jayant Yadav. On the other hand, Sri Lanka has made two forced changes Lahiru Kumara and Pathum Nissanka are out and Kusal Mendis, Praveen Jayawickrama replaces them.
Sri Lankan bowlers are bossing India at the moment. With the wickets of Virat Kohli and Hanuma Vihari, The ball is staying extremely low and spinners are running riot at the moment. Sri Lanka makes early inroads as India loses their openers early in the match.
Lasith Embuldeniya gets the Indian captain Rohit Sharma and India are two down already. RCB former captain Virat Kohli is in the middle now with Vihari. Comedy of errors on the field in the 2nd over and Mayank Agarwal departs early. Half centurion in the last match Hanuma Vihari walked in at number 3.
Shreyas Iyer played an exceptional knock of 92(98) and was on course to get a hundred until he got out stumped. After Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel departed quickly, Mohammed Shami threw away his wicket courtesy of a bad shot.
India finishes on 252/10 after 59.1 overs. Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja, who were top scorers in the previous test, are back in the hut. Lasith Embuldeniya has bowled exceedingly well to get both of them out. India has maintained a good run rate, however, the current pair of Ashwin-Shreyas need to steady the innings now with a partnership.
Jasprit Bumrah started and ended the day well for India as he got the priced scalps of Kusal Mendis, Lahuri Thirimanne and Angelo Mathews. Mohammed Shami followed suit and got Sri Lankan Dimuth Karunaratne and Dhananjaya de Silva. In nutshell, Indian pacers were on fire.
