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Delhi Test: How Sri Lankan batsmen defied Ashwin, Jadeja to conduct draw
- Updated: December 7, 2017
Sri Lanka shorten India’s array honours to 1-0 as Dhananjaya Co challenge Ashwin and Jadeja on routine Day Five track
At 35 for four, Sri Lanka were staring down a tub with their hands tied behind, and another Indian win felt like a forgone end here during a Feroz Shah Kotla. That was before Dhananjaya de Silva suddenly sprang into movement and struck a hundred estimable of a maestro to secure an extraordinary pull for a visitors on Day Five of a third and final Test here yesterday.
India captain Virat Kohli seems undone during Day Five of a Kotla Test opposite Sri Lanka yesterday. Pic/AFP
He was helped along a approach by debutant Roshen Silva, who notched adult an dominant 74 and a representation that that aged like wine, vehemently refusing to mellow even on a final day. Neither a pacers or spinners found unsuitable rebound or distracted turn, that one customarily expects from a fifth day surface. “Overall we have bowled unequivocally well, looking during a wicket. We were awaiting this wicket to mellow a small more, generally on days 4 and five, though maybe given of a weather, a wicket was still a prosaic one. There wasn’t many assistance for a spinners on a final dual days,” one-drop batsman Cheteshwar Pujara explained.
Sri Lanka batsman Dhananjaya De Silva celebrates his century during a fifth day of third Test opposite India during a Kotla yesterday. Pic/AFP
Been there, finished that
While Dhananjaya’s drastic bid shouldn’t come as a warn to anyone who saw him accumulate a hundred and a fifty opposite Australia during a Sinhalese Sports Club in 2016, a hit of 119 here, that finished with him timid hurt, was his initial notable grant since. While a contingency were built heavily opposite him, his refusal to be tied down and be coaxed into personification for a pull worked wonders. Roshen, too, batted with identical intent, looking to measure rather than block, and as a bounds began to flow, a margin began to retreat, that meant that a batsmen could urge some-more securely. “I suspicion if we are going to hang around but personification shots, we can’t score. They are a peculiarity bowling conflict and we suspicion we should play shots opposite Jadeja and Ashwin,” pronounced Dhananjaya.
The twin were quite serious on Ashwin, who was taken for 126 in his 35 overs. Though India were entirely outplayed by a youngsters on a day, they would charity blank a few chances that came their approach on a mostly nonchalant pitch. The many revelation were a lapse locate of Dhananjaya that detonate by Ashwin’s fingers, Chandimal’s exclusion off a no-ball from Ravindra Jadeja and a missed stumping of Niroshan Dickwella that could have non-stop a floodgates.
Safety zone
But a missed opportunities entailed that India could never collect wickets in clumps as they had formerly in a series. After a tumble of Angelo Mathews in a morning Dhananjaya and Chandimal combined 112, Dhananjaya and Roshen combined 58 and finally Roshen and Dickwella stitched together an dominant mount of 94, that took Sri Lanka to safety, before a dual teams shook hands 20 mins into a final hour of play.
119 Dhananjaya de Silva’s measure is a many by a visiting batsman while chasing in India. He went past Viv Richards’ 109 during Kotla in 1987
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