00:00Indian game!
00:02Here will be friends.
00:03And they will be non-stop.
00:05Now tell someone to say tea.
00:07Say tea!
00:20We've come to the Sinhalese Sports Club ground,
00:24hoping to see wonderful cricket,
00:26one of the great venues in Sri Lankan cricket history.
00:29It's the Insurance Deco Cup,
00:31the second Test match,
00:33Sri Lanka vs India.
00:35Sri Lanka have a debutant,
00:38so do India.
00:40In fact, if anything, two debutants formally,
00:42he came in as a concussion sub in the last game,
00:46did Surya Bandara.
00:47KL Rahul,
00:49who's going through a very good phase as a Test match opener.
00:52Average against Pace,
00:54alone in recent times, over 50.
00:56But Yasha Swijaiswal,
00:58all eyes will be on him.
00:59Last seven or eight innings,
01:01he's only got the one half century.
01:03Yasha Swijaiswal,
01:06great average,
01:071350,
01:08700.
01:10He's out there,
01:11he's always intimidating.
01:12The bowlers, they just can't settle in.
01:15Cause,
01:16already made a statement in international cricket.
01:20About his talents.
01:23Full wide, I'd say.
01:24I've seen him get out twice this quarter,
01:26out of three innings.
01:28Very early.
01:29KL Rahul,
01:30highest of 199.
01:33Batting as solid as ever.
01:35Asita Fernando with the new ball for Sri Lanka.
01:37You expect the ball to swing around a bit.
01:40The first half.
01:41That's what you usually see here.
01:47First ball.
01:48Asita Fernando.
01:50Oh!
01:51Excellent goal.
01:52Now was it bad first?
01:53It wasn't.
01:55Short mid-week it also just there in case.
01:57He clicks at it instinctively.
02:00No pad at all.
02:05Good swing in,
02:06but he's got it covered.
02:08Beautiful swing of the bat.
02:10Into the vast open areas for his first runs.
02:17Beats the fielder.
02:19And already we are discovering
02:21that this is a little quicker.
02:23This outfield and what we had in goal.
02:29Fuller.
02:30Once again,
02:31not quite of the middle of the bat.
02:33Goes through the space between the slips.
02:38That's the drive.
02:39He loves playing.
02:40He's very good through the offside.
02:42Just a little fuller with the swing
02:44and Rahul gets off the mark
02:45with a classy shot.
02:52To full and four.
02:55That was asking
02:56and beautifully answered.
02:58by the left-hander.
03:03Nice use of the feet.
03:04All the way for six.
03:07Again.
03:13More runs here.
03:14That's four.
03:16This time short.
03:20Heads can taken.
03:22You'll be so disappointed.
03:24Thank Raul.
03:27Who's wide?
03:28But maybe not short enough.
03:33Oh, just short is it?
03:35Is it just short or did it carry?
03:43or dropped and safely say that the ball carried another look to confirm had he taken it the TV
03:54umpire would have had to have a look and hence that reaction or once again
04:05dhananjaya de Silva has been in the firing line in goal as well against the spinners
04:14another chance goes begging those are never easy but again as I say on a wicket like this you need
04:24them to stick little little fuller and the sweep is unfurled it's not a shot you see very often from
04:35India's battles but it's unfurled yeah nice down the ground will beat the feeler into the boundaries
04:46looking very good playing with the full face of the bat fully in control it was short wide just
04:58easily played the upper cut it wasn't one of those swishes that have troubled him he's found put that
05:08in the gap as well there's two fielders back but he's so much in control of that shot hits it
05:14down
05:18but it's over it is a beautiful ball from asita fernando to a very well said better it's jacked
05:26back a long way to hit top of off it's a kind of ball that you dream of as a
05:32fastball and it's got
05:33a very very very well said better I think he's getting a send-off it is not something you want
05:39to see very often the ball coming in guys while feet was no man's land and he gets a send
05:51-off as
05:53well test average of 43 to young as Angela will tell you as a test career goes 43 he shot
06:04aside in the
06:05gap and shipment game off the mark he's 13 delivery with a boundary nice to time and even better placement
06:16I'll share it but straight to the ground though to be a good chase back about Jason I think he
06:22will
06:22give up pretty early not deliberate but quite safe in the end by shipment guilt what's an offer well
06:32a long pop outside of stone come in the vase punched and nicely done just speaking the length well and
06:46hitting it in the gap goes over the top again well that's what he's been waiting for and he finishes
06:56the
06:56over with the boundary over the top well head gain pounces on a little opportunity to skip down the
07:07wicket no one there that's well hated set up around his waist would sit away particle that's in the gap
07:21needed a dive out there as the Fernando thought of it bailed out loose delivery put away by the the
07:27particle
07:31two is a call maybe more than two runs and the feel that sweeper cover gives up as they have
07:37that particle
07:38continues it's good form 167 44 from gone and yet another half century please young this carrier
07:45but he called two and got four shows the kind of timing that he has in his shots 54 human
07:57kill 50 that
07:59was made in a very relaxed untroubled style he did say try and make amends or what happened in goal
08:06he's on
08:07the way to doing that yeah shipman girl had a real grind today it's got to 50 of 99 deliveries
08:19and he's looking set for a big one oh yes the edge for shootman kill us it up Fernando comes
08:29back he
08:30flirted with one that left that wide area open he was looking for runs there angelo matthews is just
08:37telling you try something different maybe get a seamer on and a man who was batting untroubled
08:43hardly a hair out of place just pokes at this look at niroshan dig well dig well finally holds on
08:52it popped out a couple of times and eventually Sri Lanka have a wicket from time to time he pitches
09:06it short and there the particle has taken full advantage of that Oh Lahiru Kumar I was looking to
09:14play that fine was Risha punt now the interesting thing with working with Russell Arnold is most
09:22times he's talking up NCC except in the goose to SSC inside it he lost his wicket this way as
09:28well but
09:29got a few boundaries away in that cameo in the second innings let's take a look at that where he
09:35got hit
09:35because now immediately after today after number seven you've got again two left-handers in Saran's
09:44Jen and one of Suta if it's going through quick hush it's actually easier to play because you don't
09:57see it you just moment you see it you sway away but here see it coming coming now what do
10:03I do do I
10:03this way do I play just forces a bit of doubt you think that might have that's what might have
10:09happened with the shop on that the ball wasn't coming as quickly as he thought that's a good
10:15shot very good shot by Robin the Jadeja as if the Fernanda will give up it was a teaser
10:23it is so high that's a short delivery and asking me put away and Robin the Jadeja as soon as
10:31he
10:32found the gap with an extra cover and car point that was no stopping that Kamil Mishara as the ball
10:40more wickets at 87 would he love that to be his batting average
10:51Mishara starts off brilliantly come back to and that's all they'll get not go all the way
11:07it's only the reverse challenges all your notions of batsmanship 300 runs for particle in this series
11:22that was a lot that was far too easy
11:31from time to time the dropping short and his back foot game is so good
11:40again of the back foot again using those wide open spaces on the offside he gets up to 99
11:52and he gets another hundred there the particle is making a wonderful habit of converting starts into
11:59big ones wrote his luck today but this hundred very different from the hundred and goal and a hundred
12:05built on patience almost on denial but a supreme example of temperament we know his talent but he's
12:14shown his adaptability and temperament and he'll be proud of this one and now he accesses the his
12:24favorite part of the ground yet another boundary and for more once again the back foot once again using the
12:39goal of it
12:40oh bolded him bolded him finally just before the new ball second new ball kesharan want the strikes
12:51and you see the ball is very four so yet another indian bat has misjudged the leg it's really full
12:57but because it's so flat and quick his first reaction was to go back
13:03he's a back foot player loves to be on the back foot but that ball gripped and
13:07turned as well so in the end you've got to say that was a terrific delivery from
13:12that man Keshira who has impressed one and all and so has this young man as
13:18well who just raised his bat leaving the field they'll all get up to a second
13:25hundred hundred and seventeen but couldn't carry on and get one of his big
13:31hundreds all because of the delivery from the officer 281 for four turned a bit
13:41but far too short I loved him to get a boundary to end the over ball his left
13:50it can you believe it the angle from Asita Fernando knocks him over and I
13:58thought Ravinda Jadeja left his delivery on line or more than length and that did
14:03swing back and castles in stumps and Asita Fernando has been rewarded with his
14:09third because with all the hard yards he's done today not before Jadeja one to
14:14forty three two ninety six to five what a time to come out to bat with about four
14:22minutes remaining in the day five balls in this over take your time make it the
14:27last over Saransh Jain into the team more as an off spinner but very effective with
14:35the battery shot punt you'll come back to bat tomorrow
14:41what a good delivery first up for Saransh Jain off the mark late clock for four
14:49that's 300 on the board for India with the ball just five overs also relatively new and the
14:59bowlers fresh maybe to have another go at India but at 300 runs on the board India will be the
15:06happier camp opting to bat first Yasser Svijaiswal was looking very very good when
15:14he played on he was dismissed for 45 there that particle very different hundred
15:19scratchy start but gradually came into it his second under 107 to him Shubman Gill
15:25went for 50s ravindra Jadeja 43 dismissed just before the close of playing now seven overs because
15:38about seven bowlers bowls I said the Fernando I thought was exceptional with the new ball with
15:43the older ball even with the second new ball the ball really well Lyra Kumara bent his back whenever team
15:49wanted one for 38 and the spinners did find it really really hard subscribe now to enjoy sports from across
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