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India whip Sri Lanka in pink ball Test to win series 2-0

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India whip Sri Lanka in pink ball Test to win series 2-0
India whip Sri Lanka in pink ball Test to win series 2-0
A bowling attack drove by Jasprit Bumrah assisted India with whipping Sri Lanka by 238 runs inside three days at Bangalore’s pink ball Test to clear the series 2-0 on Monday.

Pursuing 447 for win, Sri Lanka were bowled out for 208 in the second innings after captain Dimuth Karunaratne’s brave 107, on a pitch that abandoned the very first moment.

Bumrah finished Karunaratne’s spell and inspired one more to take his match count to eight wickets while spinner Ravichandran Ashwin took four over the course of the day.

Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant scored 67 and 50 in India’s 303-9 pronounced on day two to assume key parts in an earnest victory.

Left-gave Karunaratne made a second wicket stand of 97 preceding Ashwin got through for the befuddling of the captain’s for the time being accomplice Kusal Mendis, who recorded his twelfth Test fifty.

Karunaratne however proceeded to wage a solitary fight and raised his century the sole hundred for a Sri Lankan batsman in this Test series.

India, who acquired pivotal Test championship points in the whitewash, stayed prevailing from the very first moment after Iyer hit 92 and lifted the team from an unstable 86-4 to 252 hard and fast.

The series will be remembered as stamping Virat Kohli’s 100th Test in the initial game in Mohali, however the he scored only 45, 23 and 13 in the three Indian innings.Sri Lanka, who lost the initial Test by an innings and 222 runs, experienced a complete whitewash after they lost the first Twenty20 series 3-0.

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