The Indian wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant was probably getting tired for the fighting duo Keshara Nuwantha and Sonal Dinusha. Today is the last day of the ongoing second Test between Sri Lanka and India at the Sinhalese Cricket Club Ground in Colombo.
And after a forced follow-on, Dinusha is playing his part from where he left off in the first innings, nicely supported by Kamindu Mendis earlier and, today, Keshara. There was a point where Keshara had batted 100 balls yet was batting in his 30s- this was the kind of resilience Sri Lanka showed to India's bowling today.
The Indian fielders were chirping, and Rishabh Pant was doing his antics until the 103rd over when he decided to interchange the bails! Meanwhile, Dhruv Jurel ran in and got the bails interchanged again, back to the previous places.
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Bails change pays off
After that, right before lunch was taken, Keshara was given out by the umpire. Earlier in the 104th over, a yorker from Ravindra Jadeja hit Keshara's toe. And then in the fifth ball of the over, he was given an LBW.
A length ball came in, to which he offered his pad and kicked it away. Keshara immediately went for a review and found out that the ball would have missed the stumps.
Safe till Lunch, Keshara had to go back facing three balls after the play resumed. He edged a delivery from Manav Suthar, and Dhruv Jurel took a simple catch at the slip.
The bail interchange thing repeated in the 116th over when Siraj did the same. And it paid off sooner. In the next over, Ravindra Jadeja got Prabhat Jayasuriya with Dhruv again, taking the catch.