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India vs Sri Lanka: Second Test, Day 3, Tea scoreboard
Colombo: Scoreboard at tea on Day Three of the second Test between India and Sri Lanka at the P. Sara Oval ground here on Saturday:
India (first innings) 393
Sri Lanka (first innings) (overnight 140/3)
Dimuth Karunaratne lbw b Yadav 1
Kaushal Silva c Ashwin b Mishra 51
Kumar Sangakkara c Rahane b Ashwin 32
Lahiru Thirimanne c Saha b I Sharma 62
Angelo Mathews c Vijay b Binny 102
Dinesh Chandimal c Rahul b Ishant Sharma 11
Jehan Mubarak not out 20
Dhammika Prasad c Rahane b Mishra 5
Rangana Herath not out 1
Extras (b 2, lb 6 , nb 5) 13
Total (seven wickets in 103 overs) 298
Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Karunaratne, 1.1 overs), 2-75 (Sangakkara), 3-114 (Silva, 43.4), 4-241 (Thirimanne, 84.5), 5-259 (Chandimal, 90.4), 6-284 (Mathews, 98.1), 7-289 (Prasad, 99.3)
Bowling:
Ishant Sharma 20-2-68-2
Umesh Yadav 19-5-67-1
Stuart Binny 18-4-44-1
Ravichandran Ashwin 28-2-76-1
Amit Mishra 18-2-35-2
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Sunil Gavaskar gives his opinion of GT allrounder Rahul Tewatia
The left-handed batsman from Haryana is garnering praise from all quarters for the way he’s finishing games regularly in the most exciting IPL season.
Gavaskar reckons Tewatia’s whirlwind knock in Sharjah (in IPL 2020) where he smashed West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell for five sixes in an over, gave him the confidence that he belongs to the big stage.
Speaking on Cricket Live on Star Sports, Gavaskar said, “That assault on Sheldon Cottrell in Sharjah gave him the belief to do the impossible and the confidence that he belongs here. We saw the impossible (he did with the bat) the other day as well. There’s no twitching or touching the pads (which shows a batter’s nervousness) when he bats in the death overs. He just waits for the ball to be delivered and plays his shots. He’s got all the shots in the book, but most importantly his temperament to stay cool in a crisis is brilliant.”
Gavaskar has also nicknamed the 28-year-old cricketer the ‘ice-man’ and lauded Tewatia’s ability to remain unruffled during the tense moments.