IND vs SL: Watch – Rishabh Pant's Brilliant Stumping Off Ravichandran Ashwin's Delivery Sends Back Kusal Mendis For 54
IND vs SL: Watch – Rishabh Pant's Brilliant Stumping Off Ravichandran Ashwin's Delivery Sends Back Kusal Mendis For 54

Young Indian wicket-keeper Rishabh Pant pulled off a brilliant stumping off veteran off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin’s delivery to dismiss Sri Lanka National Cricket Team batsman Kusal Mendis in the last innings of the pink-ball Test match at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Monday, March 14.

Kusal Mendis batted brilliantly on Day 3 of Sri Lanka’s second innings in the pink-ball Test match against India and he smashed 54 runs off 60 balls, including 8 fours, against the world-class Indian bowling unit.

Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant
Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant. (Photo: Twitter)

On the 4th ball of the 20th over veteran off-spinner, Ravichandran Ashwin broke the partnership between Mendis and Dimuth Karunaratne by dismissing the former.

Kusal Mendis
(Credits: Twitter)

Ashwin bowled a delivery that kept going with the angle and the Sri Lanka batter decided to step out of his crease to play for the turn but he missed it, the ball went past the outside edge and Rishabh Pant made no mistakes behind the stumps and he pulled off a brilliant stumping.

India Dominate On Day 2 Of The Second Test vs Sri Lanka

Rishab Pant
Image: BCCI

On Day 2, it was total Indian domination and the top-class performance of Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant and Jasprit Bumrah left the Dimuth Karunaratne and co. struggling. Sri Lanka batters in their first innings were unable to survive for very long against the Indian bowling unit and got bundled out for 109 in 35.5 overs.

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In India’s second innings almost every batter did a decent job. The two best performers were Rishabh Pant, who smashed the fastest fifty by an Indian and Shreyas Iyer, who smashed amazing 67 runs. Then, Shreyas Iyer and Ravindra Jadeja had an amazing 66 runs partnership before Jadeja was cleaned up by Vishwa Fernando and Iyer was dismissed by Embuldeniya.

Also, Axar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin got out early and India declared at 303/9 to give Sri Lanka a mammoth target of 447 runs to chase.

Chasing the target Lahiru Kumara was dismissed by Jasprit Bumrah in the first over itself and at stumps on Day 2, Sri Lanka were 28/1 in 7.0 overs.

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