IND vs SL: Ravindra Jadeja Breaks Kapil Dev's Record During His 175*

Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja on Saturday surpassed former Indian skipper Kapil Dev in one of his long-standing record. Jadeja shattered the record in the ongoing second Test match between India and Sri Lanka at the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) Stadium in Mohali.

On Day 2, Jadeja continued his stupendous knock from his overnight score of 45 as he swivelled, pulled, dabbed, swayed and drove an array of strokes against the Sri Lankan bowlers who had no answers to stop the left-handed batter.

IND vs SL: Ravindra Jadeja played a breathtaking knock of 175*

Jadeja added 130 runs with his spin bowling partner Ravichandran Ashwin for India’s seventh-wicket stand, the latter made 61 off 82 balls before his dismissal to Sri Lanka pacer Suranga Lakmal.

However, Jadeja continues his exploits despite losing the wicket of his partner and plundered 17 fours and three massive sixes. Jadeja completed a single off Lasith Embuldeniya’s over to reach the three-figure mark on the second instance in the red-ball format.

Just after completing his hundred, Jadeja smoked a six and a couple of boundaries to Embuldeniya in an over to show how hungry he was to score more runs. Jadeja reached 150 with a six to Dhananjaya de Silva over mid-off but this time he didn’t display his sword celebration.

Jadeja remained undefeated on 175 along with Indian pacer Mohammed Shami, who was batting on 20 as Indian skipper Rohit Sharma declared the innings at 574/8 to give their bowlers some time to warm-up in the final part of the day.

IND vs SL: Ravindra Jadeja breaks Kapil Dev’s record

In the course of his magnificent knock, Jadeja went past Kapil Dev’s 163 against the same opposition in the Kanpur Test of the year 1986 while batting at No.7. Jadeja, too, played at the same position in the first innings against Sri Lanka.

Indian wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant (96) was the second-highest run-scorer in the list as he missed his Test hundred by four runs on the first day of the first Test.

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