Jadeja stranded on nine, India win by an innings and 222
R Ashwin gets the final wicket, Jadeja ends up with 175 not out and match figures 9 for 87. India win inside three days, and we leave you with a teaser from our final report. See you for the Bangalore Test.
It was a day of landmarks and milestones for India. Ravindra Jadeja became only the sixth man to score 150 or more and take a five-for in the same Test. R Ashwin went past Kapil Dev as the second-highest wicket-taker for India. In the process, Sri Lanka collapsed under the weight of a relentless India attack and lost 16 wickets in 82 overs to lose by an innings and 222 runs inside three days. Jadeja, who ended one wicket short of becoming the first man to score 150 or more in an innings and take 10 wickets in the same match, ended his third straight Mohali Test as the Player of the Match. The longest resistance Sri Lanka offered was a 17-over partnership in the second innings between Angelo Mathews and Dhananjaya de Silva, followed by the 15 overs it took India to take the first wicket in the morning. Six wickets fell for 13 runs in 43 balls to encourage Rohit Sharma to enforce the follow-on.
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High drama part two
Okay Dickwella has now reached his fifty, but we have just 23 minutes left in the day's play.
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High drama
Shami has taken the ninth man out. Kumara has come out to bat. Jadeja is on nine wickets. Dickwella is on 47. Kumara can't run. Anything is possible
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Jadeja has nine
A superb catch from Rishabh Pant to a thick edge from Lasith Embuldeniya with the ball keeping low from round the wicket. Sri Lanka have lost eight. Jadeja has nine wickets. One more wicket, and he will be the first man to have scored 150 or more in an innings and take 10 wickets in the same match.
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Jayant Yadav is bowling
Ravindra Jadeja could become the first man to have scored 150 in an innings and taken 10 wickets in the same match, but he has been taken off with three wickets standing. He needs two wickets, and one of them might not even bat. The only explanation I have is that Rohit Sharma might not be aware of the stat, and that he wants Jayant to get as much bowling in in a Test match before possibly a third seamer replaces him in the day-night Test and Axar Patel comes back eventually after that Test.
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End is nigh
The flood gates have opened. Ravindra Jadeja has struck in the second over after tea. Angelo Mathews is trapped lbw by one that pitches middle and leg, and then turns and skids. Jadeja has two. Ashwin has three. Four wickets standing. Who gets the five-for?
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Ashwin gets to 435
In the first over after tea, Ashwin draws the outside edge from Charith Asalanka, which hits Rishabh Pant's thigh and settles with Virat Kohli at first slip. That is wicket number 435. Only one Indian has taken more wickets than him now. Only eight men have more overall. Sri Lanka 121 for 5.
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Three wickets in that session
Angelo Mathews has survived 72 balls, and Charith Asalanka has hit two sixes and two fours in the last over before tea. Yet the session belongs to India, who have taken three wickets. Sri Lanka end the middle session of the middle day at 120 for 4, still needing 280 to make India bat again.
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Jadeja strikes
Eight minutes before tea, Ravindra Jadeja breaks the partnership that had been frustrating India. Dhananjaya de Silva lasts 58 balls, and then falls playing an ambitious cover-drive. Jadeja gets some drop on it, and then turn and bounce. Takes at short cover. Sri Lanka 94 for 4. You can't deny this attack for long.
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Shami gets Karunaratne with a beauty
Dimuth Karunaratne, Sri Lanka's best batter, tells India it will take something special to get him out. Shami produces that something special. From round the wicket, seam upright, angling it in, Karunaratne has to play at it, and then upon pitching it leaves him ever so slightly to take the outside edge. It is dying on Pant, but he dives in front to take that catch. The improvement in his keeping is for all to see. Sri Lanka 45 for 3.
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Ashwin = Kapil
Pathum Nissanka becomes the first of Sri Lankan batters to be dismissed twice on this day. And it is beautiful bowling from Ashwin. New ball in hand, consistently getting it to drop short of the batter's reach, and then getting varying degrees of turn from the pitch because of so many variables involved. You can watch the replays and say the ball didn't turn as much as expected but Nissanka had been done in the air. That is why he couldn't smother it. It took a faint outside edge, the much-improved Pant pouched it, Kohli and Vihari led the call to review it after given not out on the field. Sri Lanka 19 for 2.
Ashwin is now on 434 wickets. Level with the great Kapil Dev.
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Lunch will taste great to India
They got their first wicket of the day with what turned out to be the last ball of the first hour. But India have ended the session with seven wickets for 76 runs. This is just a relentless attack, and it has runs in bag. With the follow-on enforced and one second-innings wicket down already, this match could end today.
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Ashwin level with Herath
Opening the innings, batting in the middle, ODIs, Tests, it doesn't matter. R Ashwin follows Lahiru Thirimanne wherever he goes. He gets even the new ball to dip beautifully, turn and take the edge for a sharp catch at gully. He has now got Thirimanne seven times in Tests for just 73 runs. In international cricket overall, it is 14 wickets for 150 runs. Sri Lanka 9 for 1 in the second innings.
This is also Ashwin's 433rd wicket. Level with Rangana Herath now.
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Jadeja 175 not out. And 5 for 41
It seems Kumara walked out just for Jadeja. First ball, he plays for big turn, the ball turns only a small amount, and his off stump is uprooted. That's six wickets in 13 runs. Jadeja is only the sixth player to have scored 150 or above and taken a five-for in the same match. Jadeja will be on a hat-trick whenever he bowls in the second innings.
Bigger news: India have enforced the follow-on
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Lahiru Kumnra is hobbling out
Bowlers get such few opportunities to bat that Lahiru Kumara is limping out to the middle at the fall of Vishwa Fernando's wicket. Sri Lanka are 174 for 9. This actually gives Jadeja a shot at the five-for after he has had Fernando caught at gully.
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Snorter from Shami
It is unfolding fast for Sri Lanka. Mohammed Shami gets Lasith Embuldeniya with a nasty skiddy bouncer that is headed for his throat. He has to fend at it. And it lobs up for an easy catch for short leg. Sri Lanka 173 for 8. We don't know if Lahiru Kumara will bat. He walked off with a hamstring tear when bowling.
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They are not fighting for Nissanka
You can be outclassed by a better skilled and fitter team playing at home, but after that partnership early in the morning, the next two batters have not batted with responsibility. After Dickwella, Suranga Lakmal has an almighty heave at the second ball he faces. Jadeja has three wickets now. Sri Lanka 164 for 6. Nissanka unbeaten on 51 at the other end.
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First non-lbw wicket
Niroshan Dickwella walks back into Test cricket, and continues to play a sweep a ball. It is risky against the pace of Jadeja and with turn available in this pitch. What is remarkable is, India have a square leg two-thirds of the way to the boundary. And he doesn't have to move to take this too edge. Dickwella gone for 2. Sri Lanka 164 for 6.
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The bewitching Bumrah strikes
Run in hard, keep bowling 140ks regularly, and then bowl a slower offcutter that first dips on the left-hand batter, pitches middle, then breaks away, squares him up, hits him on the back leg on its way to top of off. This is precision, expertise, brilliance, everything. Jasprit Bumrah is a wizard.
Charith Asalanka lbw Bumrah 29. Sri Lanka 161 for 5. All five wickets lbw. The highest for a Test innings is seven
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Nissanka gets to his fifty
It hasn't quite been a smooth ride. Nissanka struggled against spin as soon as he came to bat yesterday. This morning Ashwin has troubled him too. He has been dropped once too. Still outside those brief spells of struggle he has managed an 81% control in getting to his fifty. He averages 64.3 in first-class cricket. And now has a sixth score of 50 or above in just 11 Test innings.
Sri Lanka 148 for 4.
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Ashwin putting on a show
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That's how the 49th over of the innings will read on the score sheet, but it won't tell you how Ashwin tortured them. The third ball dipped and drifted to open Asalanka up then turned from middle and leg, past his body and bat, and missed the off stump only on height. The next one took the outside edge but went wide of slip. The next was slower again, drawing an uppish drive but it went wide of short cover. The final delivery dipped on Nissanka, crated a gap between bat and pad, took the inside edge onto the pad, but it fell wide of short leg.
And in Ashwin's previous overs, both Asalanka and Nissanka have been dropped. Asalanka at short cover by Rohit, Nissanka by Iyer at deep midwicket. Both difficult chances, but ones these fielders back themselves to take. Sri Lanka 125 for 4
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Start of day three
Welcome to the live report for the third day of this Test. We are on a records watch for R Ashwin. He has gone past Richard Hadlee. next up: Rangana Herath, Kapil Dev and Sale Steyn. Ashwin 432, Herath 433, Kapil 434, Steyn 439
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