new Delhi: The second and final match of the series of two Test matches (IND vs SL 2nd Test) between India and Sri Lanka is being played in Bengaluru. Today is the fourth day of this match, where the match will start at 2 pm. This Day-Night match is proving to be great for Indians in many ways. Actually, in this match, Team India’s middle order batsman Shreyas Iyer has scored a brilliant half-century in both the innings. With this half-century, he has become the first Indian batsman to score fifty in both the innings of a day-night Test.
Iyer played a brilliant innings of 92 runs in the first innings and 67 runs in the second innings. He has become the first Indian to do so. India declared their second innings on 303 runs on the second day, with which the team set a target of 447 runs in front of the visiting team. At the end of the third day’s play, Sri Lanka scored 28 runs for the loss of 1 wicket. India will now need 9 wickets to win. While India is leading 1-0 in this series.
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Batsmen who scored half-centuries in both the innings of Day-Night Test
- 87 & 116 – Darren Bravo vs Pak Dubai 2016
- 130 & 63 – Steve Smith vs Pak Brisbane 2016
- 143 & 50 – Marnus Labuschagne vs NZ Perth 2019
- 103 & 51 – Marnus Labuschagne vs Eng Adelaide 2021
- 92 & 67 – Shreyas Iyer vs SL Bengaluru 2022
Apart from Shreyas Iyer, this day-night match has also been very good for Rishabh Pant. In his second innings, Pant scored a half-century off 28 balls. Only after that he has become the fastest batsman to score 50 runs in Test cricket for India. Before Pant, this record was in the name of former India’s World Cup winning captain Kapil Dev, who scored a fifty in 30 balls against Pakistan in 1982.