India vs Sri Lanka Paytm trophy 2017 1st test match

Sri Lanka Tour of India, 2017

India vs Sri Lanka Paytm trophy 2017 1st test match

Venue: Eden Gardens Kolkata

Toss: Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bowl first

Match drawn 

Man of the Match - Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Playing XI Sri Lanka:  
Dimuth Karunaratne, Sadeera Samarawickrama, Lahiru Thirimanne, Angelo Mathews, Dinesh Chandimal (c), Niroshan Dickwella (wk), Dasun Shanaka, Dilruwan Perera, Rangana Herath, Suranga Lakmal, Lahiru Gamage

Playing XI India:

Shikhar Dhawan, Lokesh Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli (c), Ajinkya Rahane, Ravichandran Ashwin, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami

Summary: India vs Sri Lanka

Day 1: The first day of the match was washed off due to rain, thereby only 11 overs were bowled.

Lankan bowlers used the favourable conditions better and had put India on backfoot at the end of day 1 by giving three early blows at the score of just 21, Suranga Lakmal took all the three wickets.

Suranga Lakmaal

Day 2: The second day of the match also delayed due to rain and started after the scheduled time.

Only 22 overs were bowled in a whole day and India at the end of the day was at 74 for 5.

Day 3: Unlike first two days those were washed off due to rain, the third day of the match had started on time.Pujara and Saha tried to put innings back on track.

Cheteshwar Pujara played a good knock at one end as the wickets are continuously fallen on the other end he completed his fifty and helped India to reach a total of 172.

India First innings – 172

Player	Runs	Balls	Strike Rate
Cheteshwar Pujara	52	117	44.44
Wriddhiman Saha	29	83	34.94

Bowler	Overs	Runs	Wickets
Suranga Lakmal	19	26	4
Lahiru Gamage	17.3	59	2

Sri Lanka National Cricket Team first innings:

Sri Lanka did not start well as Bhuvneshwar Kumar gave an early breakthrough of Karunaratne sending him back with a score of just 8. Samarawickarama gave a flying start to Lankan team and scored 23 of 22 balls before got out of Bhuvneshwar.

Angelo Mathews and Thirimane both scored watchful fifties and put Sri Lanka to take first innings lead.At the end of day 3, the score was 165 for 4.

Day 4: Chandimal and Dickvella started well before Dickwella got out with a score of 35 runs.

Rangana Herath played a good inning in the lower order of 67 runs helped Sri Lanka to take a lead of 122 runs.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Sri lanka first innings – 294

Player	Runs	Balls	Strike Rate
Rangana Hearth	67	105	63.81
Angelo Mathews	52	94	55.32

Bowler	Overs	Runs	Wickets
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	27	88	4
Mohammed Shami	26.3	100	4

India National Cricket Team Second innings:

Shikhar Dhawan and Lokesh Rahul started well and gave India dominating start as both scored quick fifties and put Sri Lanka on backfoot.

Day 5: India did not start well on the fifth day as Lankan bowlers gave an early blow in the form of Rahul, pujara and Rahane put India on the backfoot in match saving mode from the attacking mentality.

In between the wickets were fallen continuously at the other end captain Virat Kohli played a mature innings scoring his 50^th international centuary helped india to take a decent lead of 230 and gave Sri lanka a target of 231 runs.

Virat Kohli

India second innings – 352-8

Player	Runs	Balls	Strike Rate
Virat Kohli	104	116	81.03
Shikhar Dhawan	94	119	87.39

Bowler	Overs	Runs	Wickets
Suranga Lakmal	24.4	93	3
Dasun Shanaka	22	76	3

Sri lanka second innings:

Indian bowlers put sri lanka on backfoot by giving them some early blows, bhuvneshwar and shami both tried hard to got them out and bowled at some good pace.

Sri lanka were  75-7 before the play of fifth day has been called off and an interesting match has been drawn as first two days were washed off due to rain.

Virat Kohli and Mohammed Shami

Sri Lanka second innings – 75-7

Player	Runs	Balls	Strike Rate
Niroshan Dickvella	27	36	75.00
Dinesh Chandimal	20	33	52.17

Bowler	Overs	Runs	Wickets
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	11	08	4
Mohammed Shami	9.3	34	2