India beat Sri Lanka by 238 runs in the second Test in Bangalore to clean sweep the two-match series 2-0. Sri Lanka had a target of 447 runs. In reply, the visiting team was reduced to 208 runs. Off-spinner R. Ashwin took 4 and Jasprit Bumrah took 3 wickets. Axar Patel got 2, while Ravindra Jadeja got 1 wicket.
Shreyas Iyer, who scored fifty in both the innings, was adjudged man of the match, but the man of the series award went to Rishabh Pant. With this, this match got recorded in the pages of history for many records.
In the two-match Test series against Sri Lanka, R. Ashwin took 12 wickets. Along with this, Ashwin also completed his 100 wickets in the ICC World Test Championship (WTC). Ashwin has become the first bowler in the world to achieve this feat. Ashwin completed 100 wickets in both the WTC seasons combined. He took 71 wickets in 14 matches of the first season played in the year 2019-21 and so far he has taken 21 wickets in 7 matches of the current period (2021-23) of WTC.
Ashwin overtakes Dale Steyn
Along with taking the fourth wicket in the second Test, R. Ashwin reached number 8 in the world among the highest wicket-takers in Test cricket. He left behind South African fast bowler Dale Steyn. Steyn took 439 wickets before retirement and Ashwin now has 442 wickets.
Rishabh Pant created history
Rishabh Pant has become the first Indian wicketkeeper to receive the Man of the Series award in Test cricket. Apart from scoring 185 runs in the series, he took 5 catches and 3 stumpings as a wicketkeeper. Former Indian captain MS Dhoni played 94 Tests, but he could not win the Player of the Series award even once.
At the same time, Pant has also become only the third wicketkeeper in the world to receive the Player of the Series award in Test cricket at the age of 24. Before Rishabh, England's Allan Nott and Pakistan's Moin Khan have done this feat.
Rohit Sharma's 14th consecutive win
The victory in Bangalore was the team's 14th consecutive win after Indian captain Rohit Sharma became the full-time captain. Ever since Hitman became the captain of India, India has not lost a single match. Rohit has played 9 T20s, 3 ODIs, and 2 Test matches after becoming the full-time captain in all three formats. India has won all the matches. At the same time, as captain, Rohit did a clean sweep against a team for the fifth time in a row.
Rohit Sharma became the 5th captain of India to win the first two Test matches in a row. Before him, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, and Ajinkya Rahane have done so as captains.
Some other records made in the match
India won the 15th consecutive series at home grounds.
This was India's 25th Test victory at the Bangalore ground.
India made a clean sweep in Test cricket for the third time against Sri Lanka. Earlier in 1993/94 and 2017 India had done this feat.
Dimuth Karunaratne became the first opener and the first captain to score a century in the fourth innings of a Day-Night Test.
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