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Pallekele Test: Middle sequence falters after Dhawan ton as India strech 329/6
- Updated: August 13, 2017
Indian cricketer Shikhar Dhawan plays a shot during a initial day of a third and final Test compare between Sri Lanka and India during a Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in Pallekele. / AFP PHOTO
Shikhar Dhawan continued his golden run yet a singular wave uncover from a famed middle-order saw Sri Lanka shorten India to 329 for 6 here on a initial day of third cricket Test.
Courtesy Dhawan’s (119) sixth Test hundred and a record 18-run opening mount with KL Rahul (85), India looked good for a measure tighten to 400 after opting to bat.
However, some excellent bowling in a final dual sessions by left-arm spinner Malinda Pushpakumara (3/40 in 18 overs) and chinaman Lakshan Sandakan (2/84 in 25 overs) helped Sri Lanka benefit some foothold when stumps were drawn on a opening day.
The in-form Cheteshwar Pujara (8), final Test’s centurion Ajinkya Rahane (17) were discharged low while skipper Virat Kohli (42) was discharged after removing set.
However, Kohli had been reaching out to play a spinners from his double and finished adult circumference a round to initial trip off Sandakan in a 79th over.
Ravichandran Ashwin (31) looked compress yet became left-arm seamer Vishwa Fernando’s scalp during a fag finish of a day. Ashwin and Wriddhiman Saha (13 batting), who survived a DRS interest for held behind, afterwards brought adult India’s 300 in a 81st over even as a visitors were in apocalyptic need of a partnership to make their morning advantage count.
The twin combined 26 runs for a 6th wicket and negotiated a second new round scrupulously as well. But Ashwin was held behind off Fernando, dual overs before stumps withdrawal India with some-more work to do on a second day.
Earlier, it was nonetheless another plain start from Dhawan and Rahul as they bettered a top opening mount opposite Sri Lanka in divided Tests, going past a 173-run mount between Manoj Prabhakar and Navjot Sidhu during a 1993 series.
Rahul missed out on another Test hundred, miscuing one loyal to Dimuth Karunaratne during mid-on off left-arm spinner Pushpakumara in a 40th over. His 135-ball hit had 8 fours.
Dhawan yet stayed and scored his second hundred of this array off 107 balls. He combined 31 runs with Cheteshwar Pujara (8) yet a latter did not demeanour really gentle notwithstanding good batting conditions.
Dhawan was held during block leg, interjection to a leaping bid from skipper Dinesh Chandimal, a second exclusion opposite a run of play as he was usually looking to cut lax with a flurry of boundaries.
Dhawan faced 123 balls in his hit and punished a home bowlers with 17 boundaries.
“When we work tough and it pays dividends, it gives we a lot of satisfaction. Even when we was not in a Indian team, we was still enjoying my diversion during a domestic turn and following a routine that is indispensable during this level,” Dhawan pronounced after his innings.
Dhawan pronounced that being happy has always helped him sojourn certain even during tough times.
“I always try to sojourn happy and that reflects in my game. Even yet people understand me as happy go lucky, when we am out there batting, we know what my pursuit is. we have grown over a years. Even when we done my Test debut, we had a good 8 years of first-class cricket behind me,” pronounced Dhawan.
The ever constant Pujara’s annoy during a double came to an finish as he was held during initial trip off Sandakan in a 51st over.
He put on usually 10 runs with Kohli as India were left to reconstruct their innings notwithstanding being in a gentle position.
Earlier, Dhawan, who scored during a sprightly pace, and Rahul staid down fast on an easy-paced wicket with loyal bounce.
Paceman Lahiru Kumara was really costly in his initial 6 overs, leaking 41 runs while Fernando also could not keep a batsmen in check. So most so that Karunaratne had to be introduced early into a conflict and was a best Lankan bowler on arrangement in a morning session.
The opening twin brought adult a 50-partnership off usually 55 balls in a 10th over and kept adult this gait of scoring to strech 100 off 107 balls in a 18th over.
They remained in control even when a hosts introduced spin into a conflict in a form of Dilruwan Perera. For Rahul, it was his seventh unbroken fifty in Test cricket overtaking Gundapppa Viswanath and Rahul Dravid (both with 6 half-centuries each).
With Yadav and Sandakan featuring in a match, it is usually a second time given 2004 when dual ‘chinaman’ bowlers are personification in a same diversion after Dave Mohammed (West Indies) and Paul Adams (South Africa) during Cape Town.
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