Pink ball Test: Jasprit Bumrah, Rishabh Pant put India on cusp of sequence win over Sri Lanka on Day 2

Pink ball Test: India have been 9 wickets away from a 2-0 sequence victory with Sri Lanka reaching 28 for one on the shut of play on day two, chasing an unbelievable goal of 447 and with three days nonetheless remaining.

IND vs SL, Pink ball Test: India sniff massive win after Bumrah, Pant, Iyer heroics on Day 2 (AP Photo)

HIGHLIGHTS Sri Lanka have been diminished to twenty-eight for one at stumps on the second dayIndia set Sri Lanka a report goal of 447 runs to win the Pink Ball TestShreyas Iyer (67) and Rishabh Pant (50) top-scored in 2nd innings

India pacer Jasprit Bumrah struck early blows to place the hosts heading in the right direction for a series-clinching victory towards Sri Lanka within the Pink-ball Test on the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Sunday.

Chasing 447 for an unbelievable win, Sri Lanka have been diminished to twenty-eight for one at stumps on the second day of the Bengaluru Test towards India on Sunday. Bumrah trapped Lahiru Thirimanne (0) in entrance of the stumps within the very first over however Kusal Mendis and Dimuth Karunaratne remained unbeaten in a 28-run stand for the second wicket.

India vs Sri Lanka, Pink-ball Test Day 2: Highlights

This was after India set Sri Lanka a report goal of 468 runs to win the Pink Ball Test in Bengaluru after declaring their second innings at 282/9 throughout the closing session on Day 2. Shreyas Iyer top-scored for India with a knock of 67, whereas Rishabh Pant introduced up the quickest Test fifty by an Indian off simply 28 balls.

With 9 boundaries, Iyer regarded snug on the crease earlier than he was outfoxed by a Lasith Embuldeniya supply that rapped him on the pads and despatched him again to the pavilion for 67.

Sri Lankan spinner Praveen Jayawickrama picked up essential wickets to dismantle India’s center order and he completed with figures of 4/78, whereas Lasith Embuldeniya chipped in with three wickets.

Earlier, India misplaced Mayank Agarwal after a 42-run opening stand, however skipper Rohit Sharma and Hanuma Vihari stored the momentum going with the primary 50-run partnership of the match. Sharma regarded set to get to his first fifty as captain nevertheless it wasn’t to be as he fell on 46 after being caught by Angelo Mathews within the deep on the bowling of Dhananjaya. Soon after, Vihari was cleaned up by Jayawickrama, who returned after having had left the sector earlier with a foot harm.

Rishabh Pant got here in and unleashed fireworks immediately however watched Kohli depart from the opposite finish. The former India captain was finished in by an identical dismissal as the primary innings the place the ball stored low and struck him plumb in entrance.

However, Pant took the sport away from the Lankans by going after the bowling as quickly as he walked to the crease and the wicketkeeper shortly introduced up his fifty with seven fours and two sixes. Made from 28 balls, his half-century was the quickest by an Indian batsman, breaking the report set by Kapil Dev 40 years in the past.

Earlier, Sri Lanka had resumed on 86/6 however their resistance lasted solely 27 minutes as Jasprit Bumrah (5/24) and Ravichandran Ashwin (2/30) cleaned up the tail to offer the hosts a 143-run benefit earlier than the second innings.

Bumrah’s fiery spells gave him his eighth five-wicket haul however his first on house soil on a pitch that’s closely favouring the spinners.