India's Test Series Win In Sri Lanka After 22 Years

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Before 1st September, 2015 India won a Test series in Sri Lanka in 1993. While Sri Lanka won the first match of the 2015 series, India managed to make a comeback and win the second game. It was down to the third and final game at Colombo to decide the winner of the series. 

Cheteswar Pujara stood up as the wall for India

India batted first in this game and posted 312. The star with the bat was Cheteshwar Pujara, who was seen in the role of an opener. He played a gutsy knock of 145 runs off 289 deliveries and helped India to a respectable total. For Sri Lanka, it was Dhammika Prasad, who was the most successful with four wickets for 100 runs. 

In reply to India's first innings effort, Sri Lanka managed to post 201 runs. The highest run scorer for the home team was Kusal Perera with a 55 off 56 deliveries. The star of the Indian bowling was Ishant Sharma, who picked up five for 54 in his 15 overs. 

India set an unsurmountable target for Sri Lanka in the 4th innings

Going into the second innings with a 111-run lead over the home team, India scored 274. While it was a collective effort by the visitors in the second innings, Rohit Sharma was the highest scorer for them with 50 off 72. The Indian team set a target of 386 for the hosts to chase down in the last and final innings of the game. 

Skipper, Angleo Matthews showed great resilience in this chase and scored a gutsy 110 off 240. Kushal Perera, once agains put his hands up with the bat and scored 70 runs. However, these efforts were not enough for the Sri Lankans. Led by Ravichandran Ashwin's 4/69, the Indian team bundled out the hosts for  268 and guided the team to a 117-run win. 

With this win the Indian team managed to win the series by a 2-1 margin. The last time achieved this feat was under Mohammad Azharuddin in 1993, when they won a three match series by a 1-0 margin.