Insight Bureau: Team India dominated Sri Lanka on Day 1 of the 2nd Test in Bengaluru. In reply to India’s 252 in the first innings, Sri Lanka is struggling at 86/6.
Earlier, Shreyas Iyer (92) helped India reach a respectable total. At one stage, India were 86/4, but recovered to post 252. Rishabh Pant made 39, while Hanuma Vihari contributed 31. For Sri Lanka, Embuldeniya and Jayawickrama took 3 wickets each.
Sri Lanka kept losing wickets at regular intervals although Angelo Mathews scored 43. At stumps, they were 86/6. Bumrah took 3 wickets for India, while Shami bagged two. Sri Lanka is now trailing by 166 runs.