Rampaging India push for series whitewash on Day 3
August 14, 2017  09:35
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SL 19-1 (13 ovs) 135 vs India 487 | Scorecard


Welcome to the coverage of Day 3 of the third and final Test between Sri Lanka and India in Colombo on Monday.

Dominant India will be pushing for another big win and a series whitewash after another shambolic batting performance saw Sri Lanka being bundled out for 135 in their first innings on Day 2.

The hosts, who also suffered heavy defeats in Galle and Colombo inside four days, were made to follow-on and reached 19 for one at close of the second day's play, still trailing India by 333 with nine second innings wickets in hand.

Opening batsman Upul Tharanga made seven before he chopped Umesh Yadav onto his stumps for his second dismissal in the day. Dimuth Karunaratne was unbeaten on 12 with nightwatchman Malinda Pushpakumara yet to score.

The second day belonged to India all-rounder Hardik Pandya, who smashed an entertaining 108 -- his maiden hundred, that set the ball rolling in the morning for the whitewash-chasing India, who posted 487 before being all out in the first over after the lunch break.

Pandya smashed his hundred off just 86 deliveries before he was the last batsman out, giving Sri Lanka left-arm spinner Lakshan Sandakan his maiden five-wicket haul in Tests.
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