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IND vs SL | Bumrah takes first fifer in India; visitors skittled out for 109

Kingshuk Kusari

Indian paceman Jasprit Bumrah took his first ever 5-wicket haul in his home conditions on day 2 of the second Test match between India and Sri Lanka.

The Bangalore crowd were treated with Bumrah’s vicious best second day on a trot as the bowler banged in two vicious short balls and dismissed Lasith Embuldeniya and Niroshan Dickwella early in the day.


Bumrah found success using the deadly combination of yorkers and short balls to make sure that SL found no chance to take the game away. He changed to this tactic after being hit for two boundaries in the first over of the game, when Dickwella tapped two of his length deliveries for consecutive boundaries.

Alongside Bumrah, Ravichandran Ashwin picked two wickets of Suranga Lakmal and Vishwa Fernando - both of which came with the carrom ball.

Earlier on Day 1, India attacked Sri Lanka ruthlessly under the lights, bullying the top order who had no clue about how to deal with the swing that Bumrah and Mohammad Shami had been extracting with the new ball. At the time when India came into bowl, it seemed like there would be no help for the pacers in the Bengaluru track, which had started to turn square and show inconsistent bounce in the second session itself.

However, Bumrah and Shami did exceedingly well to remove 6 wickets at the end of day's play for 86 runs. Sri Lanka only managed to add 23 runs to their overnight total and currently are 143 runs behind the Indian target from first innings.

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