-Vinay Kumar
Team India’s first innings was reduced to a score of 252 runs in the final and second match of the two-match series against Sri Lanka being played at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. Shreyas Iyer remained frozen till the last wicket and kept on scoring runs. He batted well facing 98 balls and scored 92 runs. In this scintillating innings of 92 runs, his bat hit 10 fours and 4 superb sixes. Team India’s last wicket was Shreyas Iyer. He was stumped off Jayavikrama’s delivery.
Shreyas Iyer played a fine innings, but despite this, he got an unwanted record in his name. Shreyas became the 4th player to be stumped before the 90 or 100 runs in international Test cricket for his team. Shreyas Iyer was stumped by wicketkeeper Niroshan Dickwella off Sri Lanka’s bowler Praveen Jayawickrama.
Indian players who got stumped in the score of 90s in Test cricket
1. 96 runs, Dilip Vengsarkar (India vs Pakistan), Chennai 1987
2. 90 runs, Sachin Tendulkar (England vs India), Bangalore 2001
3. 99 runs, Virender Sehwag (Sri Lanka vs India), Colombo SSC 2010
4. 92 runs, Shreyas Iyer (Sri Lanka vs India), Bengaluru 2022*
Remind you that Shreyas Iyer made his international Test debut in 2021 in the Test match played against New Zealand in Kanpur. He played a useful innings for Team India by scoring a century in his debut match itself. He scored 321 runs in 6 innings of the 4-match Test series played against England, which included one century and two half-centuries.
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Team India were all out for 252 in the first innings of the Pink Ball Day Night Test match against Sri Lanka in Bangalore. Apart from Shreyas Iyer, none of the batters could touch the 50-run mark. Team’s wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant scored 39 runs off 26 balls. The spin bowlers dominated the Sri Lankan side. The spinners took 8 out of 10 wickets of this first innings of India. Jayavikrama and Lasith Embuldeniya took three wickets each for Timnindia and Dhananjaya D’Silva took two wickets.
Significantly, in the first match of the 2-match Test series against Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka vs India Test Series, 2022) played in Mohali, Team India defeated Sri Lanka by an innings and 222 runs. At present, the Indian team is leading 1-0 in this series. If India wins the second match in Bengaluru, or ends up in a draw, it will be India’s 15th consecutive Test series win at their home ground. Remind you that, this example is not associated with the name of the team of any country in the world. The history of Test cricket shows that Australia has won only 10 consecutive Test series in their country.