IND vs SL: Never Thought It Would Finish By Day Three – Sri Lanka Captain Dimuth Karunaratne After Humiliating Defeat In Mohali Test

Dimuth Karunaratne-led Sri Lanka National Cricket Team lost the first Test match of the two-match Test series against Rohit Sharma-led India National Cricket Team by an innings and 222 runs at the Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh.

India won the toss and opted to bat first and posted 574/8 on the board in the first innings. Sri Lanka National Cricket Team were only able to score 174 runs in their first innings which led to India imposing a follow-on and in their second innings, Sri Lanka got bowled out for 178 on Day 3 itself.

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Speaking in the post-match presentation Sri Lanka skipper said that he never thought that the match would end on Day 3. Dimuth Karunaratne added that the batters of the team should have played longer innings. He said:

“We never thought it would finish by day three. The batters need to put their hands up and bat longer innings.”

It was easy to bat on this track – Dimuth Karunaratne

Karunaratne despite the massive failure of the Sri Lankan batting unit said that the batting on the Mohali surface was easy.

“When you are playing against India you have to capitalize on the starts, it was easy to bat on this track, once you get you have to score big. We backed ourselves (by playing the extra seamer),” he stated.

Dimuth Karunaratne further added that the Sri Lanka batters were either too defensive or too aggressive and they need to get a balance between both by rotating the strike. He also said that the Sri Lankan team need to work on batting well when the ball gets old.

“We thought the wicket would crack open and is going to be up and down. If we had bowled better then we could have restricted them. We were too defensive or too aggressive with the bat, need to get a balance between both by rotating the strike and that’s how you play a big innings.

“As a batting unit, we have to put our hands up and score big. We did well for the first two sessions but could not execute when the ball got old and those are things we need to work on,” he asserted.

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