-Vinay Kumar
Under the captaincy of Indian team captain Rohit Sharma, the Indian team defeated Sri Lanka in the latest series today. With this, Team India raised its flag in the 7th consecutive bilateral series. Team India defeated Sri Lanka by 238 runs in the Pink Ball Test (SL vs IND Pink Ball Day Night Test Match, 2022). With this fresh victory, India created a new history. For the first time in its 90-year cricket history, India has made a clean sweep against two countries in a series of two or more formats in a row.
India won the T20I and ODI series against the West Indies 3–0 and 3–0 before the bilateral series against Sri Lanka. This is India’s 15th consecutive series win at their home ground. Before this, Team India last played against England in December 2012 (ENG vs IND Series, 2012). The captain of the Indian team at that time was MS Dhoni.
Ravichandran Ashwin took a total of 6 wickets in the Pink Ball Test match, the second and final Test match of the latest Test series played at M. Chinnaswamy Cricket Stadium, Bengaluru, Bengaluru. In the first innings of this match, he took 2 for 30 in 8.5 overs, and in the second innings he took 4 for 55 in 19.3 overs.
In the second innings, Ravichandran Ashwin dropped the last wicket of Sri Lanka. As soon as he took the wicket of Fernando, Ashwin equaled the record of great Australian bowler Shane Warne. The history of international cricket tells that in Test cricket, Ravichandran Ashwin led India to victory by taking the last wicket of the opposition team for the 22nd time. Shane Warne also made such a record 22 times in his career.
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Indian team captain Rohit Sharma also equaled Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, MS Dhoni and Ajinkya Rahane. Rohit Sharma has won the first two Test matches of his career as a captain. This record has been done by Sachin Tendulkar (Sachin Tendulkar 1996), Sourav Ganguly (2000 Sourav Ganguly), MS Dhoni (MS Dhoni 2008) and Ajinkya Rahane 2017-18.
The history of international cricket is a witness to the fact that Rohit Sharma has also managed to win the first series of his career in all formats of cricket as a captain in Team India. Along with Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant also wrote history. Pant was selected ‘Player of the Series’ (Rishabh Pant Player of the Series SL vs IND, 2022). Pant is the first Indian wicketkeeper to be named Man of the Series in the Test format. Shreyas Iyer is the 3rd Indian player to be named the Player of the Match in the Day-Night Pink Ball Test Match. Before him, these awards have been added in the names of Axar Patel and Ishant Sharma.
Indian team’s veteran and senior spinner Ravichandran Ashwin said after winning the Bangalore teat, “I don’t think about what I want to achieve. I just believe in doing well in my bowling spell. Bowling with the pink ball was a challenge. Today, in the first 2-3 overs of every spell, the ball was coming out of hand very well. It takes 12 to 15 balls to understand the pitch and understand the correct speed of the ball according to the pitch. It becomes easy for Axar Patel. This pitch (M. Chinnaswamy Cricket Stadium, Bengaluru) was moving more as compared to the pitch at Ahmedabad (Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium, Ahmedabad).”