The Indian team now requires just 7 more wickets to complete the clean sweep against Sri Lanka in both T20I and Test series. Sri Lanka, after being set an improbable target of 447, was reduced to 102/3 at the drinks break of the morning session on Day 3. In the first session of the moving day, India got the first breakthrough in the 20th over, when Kusal Mendis was stumped by Rishabh Pant off veteran off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin for 54 off 60 balls.
Soon after, former Indian skipper, Virat Kohli, in the next over was seen chanting ‘badhiaya line Jaddu, ayega jaddu, shabaash’ (good line jaddu, the wicket will come again) while standing at first slip. Ravindra Jadeja came to bowl the next over, the 21st, and he managed to deliver a ball between Mathews’ bat and pad onto the leg-stump. Mathews failed to read the arm ball from and ended up being cleaned up as the ball crashed on the top of the leg stump.
WATCH – Rishabh Pant Affect Brilliant Stumping To Send Back Kusal Mendis
Following the dismissal, Sri Lanka, who looked well in the morning session, and scored runs quickly went on to the back foot again after making a brilliant partnership of 97 runs for the second wicket between Dimuth Karunaratne and Kusal Mendis.
Here is the video of Virat Kohli making the right prediction:
https://twitter.com/rishobpuant/status/1503302198301642755?s=20&t=DGoZ4AvC0m6giaXIkwKGyQ
India Playing XI: Mayank Agarwal, Rohit Sharma (c), Hanuma Vihari, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wk), Shreyas Iyer, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah
WATCH – Mitchell Starc Dismisses Fawad Alam On A Golden Duck With A Yorker
Sri Lanka Playing XI: Dimuth Karunaratne (c), Lahiru Thirimanne, Kusal Mendis, Angelo Mathews, Dhananjaya de Silva, Charith Asalanka, Niroshan Dickwella (wk), Suranga Lakmal, Lasith Embuldeniya, Vishwa Fernando, Praveen Jayawickrama
Here’s how Twitterati reacted after the dismissal:
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