In the Sri Lanka tour of India, the second Test match will be a Day/Night fixture that will be played at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on March 12 at 2:00 PM IST. India currently leads the bilateral series 1-0.
The hosts will be heading into this fixture on the back of a scintillating 222-run victory in the first game in Mohali. The Indian team seems to have found a perfect allrounder in the form of Ravindra Jadeja. The southpaw smashed 175* and also pocketed nine wickets in the game including a fifer. Jadeja single-handedly decimated the Lankans. Rohit Sharma, who is currently playing his first Test series as a full-time captain will look to clean sweep the visitors by clinching the Day/Night Test.
On the other hand, in the second Test, Sri Lanka will be facing a bigger challenge of playing against the in-form Indians in a Day/Night fixture. There wasn’t much fightback from the tourists in the first Test. The Dimuth Karunaratne-led Sri Lankan team has to come up with something special to outplay the Indians in Bengaluru.
Head-to-head:
In the head-to-head competition between the two teams in Test, India has the upper hand. The two teams have played 45 fixtures in the longest format so far, out of which, India won 21 matches while the visitors emerged victorious on seven occasions.
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