BANGALORE,
India — A
bowling attack led by
Jasprit Bumrah helped India thrash Sri Lanka by 238 runs
inside three days at Bangalore’s pink-ball Test to sweep the series 2–0 on
Monday.
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Chasing 447 for victory,
Sri Lanka were
bowled out for 208 in the second session after skipper Dimuth Karunaratne’s
valiant 107, on a pitch that turned from day one.
Fast bowler Bumrah ended
Karunaratne’s spell
and got one more to take his match tally to eight wickets while spinner Ravichandran
Ashwin took four over the day.
Shreyas Iyer and
Rishabh Pant, respectively
named man of the match and man of the series, scored 67 and 50 in India’s 303–9
declared on day two.
Their key roles brought an emphatic victory
that left the hosts unbeaten in all three of their home day-night Tests and
extended their streak at home to 15 series wins in the five-day format.
India also won the opening Test in three days
and this win gives new all-format captain
Rohit Sharma a winning start to his
Test leadership.
“It was a big thing to lead in Tests,” Rohit
told reporters after the win.
“I had the support of my teammates. They were
telling me what to do and what not to do. There are a few senior members in the
team who understand the game well and (I) had their inputs as well.”
Left-handed Karunaratne made a second-wicket
stand of 97 before Ashwin broke through for the stumping of the captain’s
overnight partner
Kusal Mendis, who recorded his 12th Test half-century.
Karunaratne went on to wage a lone battle and
raised his century — the sole hundred for a Sri Lankan batsman in this Test
series — with a boundary off Bumrah.
“I would have been more happy if we had won,”
Karunaratne said afterwards.
“We batted under lights and it was tough,” he
added. “We have a good team, (but) the batting didn’t capitalize on these
conditions.”
Lakmal
farewell
India,
who gained crucial Test championship points in the whitewash, remained dominant
from day one after Iyer hit 92 and lifted the team from a precarious 86–4 to
252 all out.
Iyer was named man of the match while the
left-handed Pant was crowned player of the series for his 185 runs in the
series and wicketkeeping duties.
Bumrah then returned figures of 5–24 for his
maiden five-wicket haul at home to dismiss Sri Lanka for 109.
“Bumrah’s performance was magnificent without
a doubt,” Rohit said of his deputy.
“To come out and bowl like that in these
kinds of conditions shows how much skill and ability he has.”
The series will be remembered as marking
Virat Kohli’s 100th Test in the opening game in Mohali, though the star batsman
scored just 45, 23, and 13 in the three Indian innings.
The former captain twice fell lbw in this
Test to take his average down to below 50 for the first time since 2017, but
the crowd at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium gave him a rousing reception.
Sri Lankan quick
Suranga Lakmal took one
wicket in his last Test and finished his career with 171 scalps in 70 five-day
matches since his 2010 debut.
Lakmal scored one before being bowled by
Bumrah, who rushed to bid farewell to the 35-year-old veteran with an arm
around him and the Indian team joined in.
The tourists, who lost the opening Test by an
innings and 222 runs, suffered a total whitewash after they lost the preceding
Twenty20 series 3–0.
Players from India and across the world will now assemble
for the Indian
Premier League, which begins March 26.
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