***Official*** Sri Lanka in India 2017

[vcs]

Heroic performance from Lakkers in this Test so far.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Great bowling tbh. Not much wrong with either of those shots. Lakmal has been ace.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Meh sending Jaddu up the order never works. The lack of trust in Saha continues to amaze me.

 

[cnerd123]

Kohli to do a Smith and eventually drop Saha for not being vocal enough in the field.

 

[OverratedSanity]

What's the point of Jadeja if he's not hacking at everything?

 

[Gnske]

Hnngnnn Pujara's mustache

So hot

 

[vitalogy83]

5 down

Nervous territory for SL now

127/5 effectively!

Yikes. I was not prepared for this today!

 

[OverratedSanity]

A thoroughly predictable failure. Stop. Promoting. Jadeja.

Keep him down at 7 or 8 to jam runs ffs. And now Ashwin over Saha too. Ugh. Just dumb.

 

[vcs]

Yes, 4 wickets lost in this session already. India in a bit of trouble. Need to somehow bat until tea to save this game.

 

[OverratedSanity]

On Cricinfo

Amith: "Why didn't the selectors pick Stuart Binny if they wanted to rest Pandya? He seems to be doing well in Ranji this year and he'd been a handful to manage on this pitch with the kind of swing he can generate. Are we going Pandya or no one way for seam bowling allrounders now?"

I don't even know what to say about that place anymore.

 

[vitalogy83]

Looks solid for a draw unless Lakmal turns in another 3 for none spell

A boy can dream.

 

[Daemon]

On Cricinfo



I don't even know what to say about that place anymore.

Tbf Binny on this wicket over Jads isn't the worst shout.

Very much a hindsight decision though.

 

[harsh.ag]

India need to play 25 more overs and score a 100 runs to be safe. That would mean 40 overs to chase down 230 for SL. And 40 overs will probably not be bowled due to the light.

 

[YorksLanka]

We are desperately missing Pradeep here. There just isn't enough support for Lakmal.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Still a lot of time left and we need another 100 to be safe. This has been an unexpectedly great test.

 

[morgieb]

Shanaka's test success seems really bizarre to me. Guess it helps he's only played in very seamer-friendly conditions.

 

[srbhkshk]

Kohli needs to play majority of the deliveries now, never thought would be saying that about him on such a pitch.

 

[Himannv]

We are desperately missing Pradeep here. There just isn't enough support for Lakmal.

Yeah, Lakmal badly needs some kind of support here. I think we could have done a lot better with a better fast bowler alongside him.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Poor shot from Saha. So many batsmen getting in trouble driving on the up on this deck.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Does Kohli attack now? Does he try to keep the strike? Or does he push it around normally and trust the tail? Runs, overs and light are all factors