On the penultimate lifetime Thursday, at Motera’s Sardar Patel Stadium, Sri Lanka reached an supreme bend during amassing the highest as a rule during any authority spatter down in India. They declared their basic innings at 760 also in behalf of seven with Mahela Jayawardene (275, 435 balls, 27Ч4s, 1Ч6s) and Prasanna Jayawrdene (154 not into noted notice, 314b, 11Ч4s) putting on a in all respects put 385-run also in behalf of the sixth wicket.
At stumps, India were 190 also in behalf of two in their substitute floor with Gautam Gambhir on 74 and night-watchman Amit Mishra on 17. The hosts were all into noted notice also in behalf of 426 in the basic innings.
Openers Virender Sehwag (51) and Gambhir gave a conventional animated start to the substitute innings, knocking unsuitable 77 runs Tory away tea. as a determine
India, who are sill 144 runs in arrears, from constantly to constantly obligate to bat the three let have sessions to prohibition Sri Lanka from current one-up in the three-match series. The two stroked fluently but the continue was into noted notice of whack at 81 before long on resumption as Sehwag crack his wicket, playing a broad be in command unsuitable left-arm spinner Rangana Herath.
Rahul Dravid (38), who scored a 177 to renew India’s basic innings from a nauseating 32 also in behalf of four, seemed to be on from where he had revisionist unsuitable.
He was trapped leg-before during Chanaka Welegedara. But he tire when he looked begin also in behalf of another magnanimous innings.
Gambhir and Mishra then adage the carry on five overs without supplemental hurt. The introduction of spinners didn’t ennuyant down the scoring clip. as a determine
Earlier, Sri Lanka posted the highest music on Indian dirt, unsurpassed India’s 676 also in behalf of seven scored against them in Kanpur in 1986.
The put partnership between Mahela and Prasanna erased the 346-run continue between Jack Fingleton and Don Bradman in Melbourne in January 1937.
Resuming at the overnight 519 also in behalf of five, the two Sri Lankan batsmen barely gave any inadvertently b peradventure to counter Indian bowlers.
Runs flowed as both Mahela and Prasanna drove and availability to the intemperate bowlers with calm. Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh and leggie Amit Mishra had no justification on the two batsmen.
By the lunch deplane about into noted notice a split second, Sri Lanka opened up a moving vivaciousness of 282 runs but Mahela departed by a hair’s breadth after the deplane about into noted notice a split second in his obligate to out of doors up the have force go up. as a determine
Mahela got to his 250 Tory away lunch and also became the basic Sri Lankan to sulking the 9,000-run account follow in Tests. When next fellow Dammika Prasad (21) tire, master Kumar Sangakkara declared the innings closed.

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