Sri Lanka vs India 2nd Test at Nagpur, 24 Nov, 2017

Toss: Sri Lanka, who chose to bat first
India won by an innings and 239 runs
W
Sri Lanka, who chose to bat first
Sri Lanka 166/10 in 49.3 Overs
Current Run rate: 3.35

Sri Lanka 205/10 (79.1) & 166/10 (49.3)

India 610/6 (176.1)

Player of the Match: Virat Kohli
Batsman
Runs
Balls
4's
6's
S/R
Mat
Runs
HS
Avg
31
42
2
1
73.81
64
864
42
11.36
Bowler
Overs
Maidens
Runs
Wkts
Econ
Mat
Wkts
BBI
Avg
17.3
4
63
4
3.6
78
409
7/59
24.69
9
2
30
2
3.33
48
148
6/88
30.54
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Current Partnership: 13 runs, 2.2 overs, RR: 5.57 (Rohit Sharma, Wriddhiman Saha )
Last Wicket: Lahiru Gamage 0(9)

Over 50.0  

Kohli: The pitch was very good to bat on. It was on the slow side but there was nothing much happening. Just wanted to bat the way I wanted to - get into good positions and keep rotating strike. It's something I've wanted to better myself. For the pure reason that the team should benefit. When you lose concentration after hundred, you can lose two wickets quickly after that. It's important to buckle up after the hundred. My fitness also helped me to push harder. Pujara, obviously he's been very consistent. Vijay was playing after a while, he takes a lot of pride in playing Test cricket. He's a technically sound player. Rohit too, we believed in him. When we speak of combinations for the future, Rohit will definitely be in the fray. Ishant, Shami and Umesh haven't played so much recently. Playing first-class cricket has helped them. Ishant was outstanding. We have bowlers in good rhythm. We need them to play as much as possible. We would like to think that we want to prepare for that. That's why we asked for pitches that have a bit more life in it, bit of help for the fast bowlers. This one deteriorated pretty quickly. That is a big tour coming up. Everyone's looking forward to that.
Virat Kohli is the Man of the Match
Chandimal: It was a good toss to win. Unfortunately we were outplayed from the first day. Our batting let us down again. When you're playing against India, you've got to score 350-plus. Before we came here, we had a game-plan. We said to the guys - if you get a start you have to go on. Hopefully these youngsters will come back strong. Mathews is the senior-most guy in the batting line-up. If he's not scoring, the batting line-up has let us down. I'm sure he'll come back strong. We need to get positives out of this. When we're bowling, our body language was superb. Need to score more runs in the first innings. That's what we need to discuss as a unit. This wicket was good to bat on for the first three days. The bowling unit has done a really good job. But if you have no runs on the board, they can't do anything.
India won by an innings and 239 runs and lead the series with 1-0
49.3
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Over 49.3 Ravichandran Ashwin bowls it flat in the air to Lahiru Gamage, out Bowled!!This was a fantastic carrom ball which would have got the better of many a batsman. Grip, turn, squares Gamage up and flicks off-stump.
49.2
0
Over 49.2 Ravichandran Ashwin bowls a tossed up delivery to Lahiru Gamage, no runs, comes on to the front foot and defends it back to the bowler.
49.1
0
Over 49.1 Ravichandran Ashwin bowls a tossed up delivery to Lahiru Gamage, no runs, gets forward and looks to play across the line but misses and the ball struck on the pads.
End of Over 49   Sri Lanka 166/9

RAS Lakmal 31/42 Umesh Yadav 9-2-30-2
Lahiru Gamage 0/6

48.6
0
Over 48.6 Umesh Yadav bowls it short of length to RAS Lakmal, no runs, goes on to the back foot and tries to cut hard but misses.
48.5
0
Over 48.5 Umesh Yadav bowls a good length delivery to RAS Lakmal, no runs, gets forward and blocks it back to the bowler.
48.4
0
Over 48.4 Umesh Yadav bowls a good length delivery to RAS Lakmal, no runs, gets cover the off stump line and shoulders arms to let it go through to the keeper.
48.3
0
Over 48.3 Umesh Yadav bowls a good length delivery to RAS Lakmal, no runs, comes across and leaves it down the leg side.
48.2
0
Over 48.2 Umesh Yadav bangs it short onto the pitch to RAS Lakmal, no runs, goes deep in the crease and ducks under it to sways away.
48.1
0
Over 48.1 Umesh Yadav bowls a good length delivery to RAS Lakmal, no runs, gets forward and let it go outside off through to the keeper
End of Over 48 (1 runs)   Sri Lanka 166/9

Lahiru Gamage 0/6 Ravichandran Ashwin 17-4-63-3
RAS Lakmal 31/36

47.6
0
Over 47.6 Ravichandran Ashwin bowls a tossed up delivery to Lahiru Gamage, no runs, gets forward and pushes it down the pitch back to the bowler.
47.5
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Over 47.5 Ravichandran Ashwin bowls a tossed up delivery to Lahiru Gamage, no runs, gets forward and defends it to FSL.
47.4
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Over 47.4 Ravichandran Ashwin bowls a tossed up delivery to Lahiru Gamage, no runs, presses forward and pushes it to the on side.
47.3
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Over 47.3 Ravichandran Ashwin bowls a tossed up delivery to Lahiru Gamage, no runs, gets forward and left alone through to the keeper.
47.2
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Over 47.2 Ravichandran Ashwin bowls a tossed up delivery to Lahiru Gamage, no runs, gets forward and blocks it back to the bowler.