The first match of the two-match Test series between India and Sri Lanka (SL vs IND Test Series, 2022) is being played at the ground of Mohali. Today was the second day of this match. On the second day, Team India declared the innings at a score of 574 runs after taking 8 wickets in their first innings. After this, the Sri Lankan team entered the field to bat. Earlier, India’s legendary bowler Ravichandran Ashwin has registered a special record in his name. He overtook the great New Zealand cricketer Richard Hadley.
Ravichandran took two wickets
Today, on Saturday, 5th match, Sri Lanka scored 108 runs for 4 wickets till the end of play on the second day of the match. Team India’s veteran spinner R Ashwin took 2 wickets. With these two fresh wickets, he has 432 wickets in his account in Test cricket. He overtook New Zealand great Richard Hadlee (431 wickets). With these two new victims, Ravichandran Ashwin has now reached the 11th position in the list of bowlers with the most wickets in Test cricket. At the top is Sri Lanka’s great bowler Muttiah Muralitharan, who has taken 800 wickets in Test cricket.
Ravichandran Ashwin took two wickets
In the 19th over, Thirimanne was dodged while playing a defensive shot off Ravichandran Ashwin. And the ball hit the straight pad and on appeal the umpire gave it out. The batsman took the review. But, the third umpire clearly saw the ball going straight to the wicket on the TV screen. The review went in vain, the batsman got out. At the same time, another batsman Dhananjay de Silva went lbw on Ashwin’s ball on the score of 1 run.
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Most wickets in test cricket
- Muttiah Muralitharan – 800 wickets
- Shane Warne – 708 wickets
- James Anderson – 640 wickets
- Anil Kumble – 619 wickets
- Glenn McGrath – 563 wickets
- Stuart Broad – 537 wickets
- Courtney Walsh – 519 wickets
- Dale Steyn – 439 wickets
- Kapil Dev – 434 wickets
- Rangana Herath (- 433 wickets
- R Ashwin (Ravichandran Ashwin) – 432
match update
On the second day of the first test match being played in Mohali, India batted in the first and second sessions and declared the innings at 574 runs. All-rounder Ravindra Jadeja played an excellent unbeaten innings of 175 runs. At present, Sri Lanka are at the crease and at the end of the second day’s play, they have scored 108 runs for the loss of 4 wickets.
Team India’s first innings batting
In this match, India won the toss and elected to bat first. Performing brilliantly in the first innings, India declared the innings after scoring 574 for 8 wickets. For India, all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja played the highest innings of 175 runs and remained not out. Apart from them, Rishabh Pant (96 runs), Ravichandran Ashwin (61 runs), Hanuma Vihari (58 runs) played brilliant half-centuries. Mayank Agarwal 33, Captain Rohit Sharma 29, Virat Kohli 45, Shreyas Iyer 27 and Jayant Yadav 2 runs. . Indian team’s deadly fast bowler Mohammed Shami remained not out after scoring 20 runs.
– Vinay Kumar