India hold onto control in the wake of authorizing follow-on

Sri Lanka kept on being outmatched by a persistent Indian assault even as they followed on. Having first yielded a 400-run first innings lead, Sri Lanka lost four more in their second leaving India as the reasonable top choices by Tea on the third day of the Mohali Test.

Sri Lanka were first held somewhere near Ravindra Jadeja's five-wicket pull, his first in Quite a while beginning around 2017, which added to his 175 with the bat in the primary innings. Furthermore in the second, the slide was begun by R Ashwin, who equalled Kapil Dev's count of 434 Test wickets.

Lahiru Thirimanne was gotten at slip tumbling to Ashwin for the second time in the match, while the primary innings half-centurion Pathum Nissanka got a flimsy edge to be captured behind. The spinners were supplemented well by the pacers, as Mohammed Shami moved one to shape away and trap Dimuth Karunaratne LBW for 27.

Sri Lanka's opposition at long last came as a 49-run stand between Angelo Mathews and Dhananjaya de Silva. However, Jadeja, by and by, stopped it from really developing having de Silva got at short cover.

Jadeja's fine bowling execution was a continuation of his heroics in the principal innings where Sri Lanka had experienced an emotional breakdown. The last four players in the primary innings generally succumbed to ducks with Jadeja getting two wickets in an over two times.

Niroshan Dickwella and Suranga Lakmal got off miscued hotshots setting off the breakdown first. And afterward returned to wrap up the innings off progressive balls having Vishwa Fernando gotten at slip and Lahiru Kumara clean bowled. Inbetween Mohammad Shami skiped out Lasith Embuldeniya as Sri Lanka lost their last six wickets for only 13 runs in about 42 balls.

The excited slide down was very rather than how Sri Lanka had begun in the primary hour of the day.

Both Pathum Nissanka and Charith Asalanka, the short-term hitters, had a touch of karma turning out well for them with the previous dropped by Shreyas Iyer off R Ashwin. In any case, they rode on that karma to sack limits at whatever point India blundered long and added a dirty 58-run represent the fifth wicket. Nissanka raised his fifth 50 years throughout the span of his resistant thump. However, the advanced that India worked for got through a motivate piece of bowling by Jasprit Bumrah. A more slow offcutter from round the wicket did Asalanka in for pace and was caught LBW on audit.

It opened the conduit doors for Sri Lanka's quick freefall from there on.

Brief Scores: India 574/8 d (Ravindra Jadeja 175*, Rishabh Pant 96, Hanuma Vihari 58, Suranga Lakmal 2-90) lead Sri Lanka 174 hard and fast (Pathum Nissanka 61*, R Jadeja 5-41) and 120/4 (R Ashwin 2-32) by 280 runs