India vs Sri Lanka, 1st Test - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

Ashwin to Kumara, out Caught by Shami!! India take a 1-0 lead. This is a huge win for the home side. Ashwin finishes off the game and leaves Jadeja stranded on 9 wickets in the game. Floated above the eye-line and Kumara had no intention of hanging around any longer, goes for the big shot and slices it to deepish mid-off, Shami runs around and takes a good catch. Kumara c Shami b Ashwin 4(14) [4s-1]

Ashwin to Kumara, no run, tossed up around off, Kumara prods forward and defends to the off-side

Ashwin to Kumara, no run, in the air and safe. Kumara checks his shot and chips it uppishly towards mid-on, Bumrah is a bit deep and cannot get there in time to take the catch

Ashwin to Dickwella, 1 run, sliding down leg, Dickwella tickles it past leg slip and has to settle with a single

Ashwin to Dickwella, no run, nicely floated up on off, Dickwella drops it dead near his feet with soft hands

Ashwin to Dickwella, no run, drifting into the left hander, Dickwella blocks it in front of mid-wicket

Ashwin to Kumara, no run, looped up on middle and leg, Kumara almost loses balance as he keeps it out

Ashwin to Kumara, no run, carrom ball turning in, Kumara defends with the head on top of the ball

Ashwin to Kumara, no run, tossed up on leg-stump, Kumara blocks it with soft hands

Ashwin to Kumara, no run, once more uses his hands to defend and ekes out an outer edge, rolls to Rohit at gully

Ashwin to Kumara, no run, slower and turning, Kumara blocks without moving his feet

Ashwin to Kumara, no run, very full delivery and that's an easy keep-out for Kumara

Ashwin to Kumara, no run, carrom ball turning in, Kumara stands tall and tucks it to the leg-side

Ashwin to Dickwella, 1 run, oh poor Kumara. He barely makes the single. Dickwella pushes this to mid-on and calls for the single, an injured Kumara just manages to make it in. A better throw from Bumrah might have had him

Ashwin to Dickwella, no run, slower and turning away, Dickwella stabs it to backward point

Ashwin to Dickwella, no run, appeal for LBW. There is a lot of chatter from Pant. He wanted Rohit to take it as there's only one wicket left. But Rohit just laughs it off. Dickwella misses the sweep but seems to have got some glove on that, the ball was sliding on as well and might have missed leg-stump

Ashwin to Dickwella, no run, flighted on off, Dickwella drives inside out and down to long-off

Ashwin to Dickwella, no run, flighted around off, Dickwella knocks it with soft hands to cover

Ashwin to Embuldeniya, no run, full again, on off, blocked back to the bowler

Ashwin to Embuldeniya, no run, drifting away outside off, but Embuldeniya stretches forward and squeezes it out

Ashwin to Dickwella, 1 run, slides in with the angle, and Dickwella tucks it off the inside-half through mid-wicket

Ashwin to Dickwella, no run, presses forward, lines it up, and defends it back down the pitch

Ashwin to Dickwella, no run, goes sweeping, but the ball dips all of sudden in front of him, bouncing over the top-edge, and flying towards Pant's face, who in his reflexes to go sway back, has the helmet falling off his head

Ashwin to Dickwella, no run, flat, length, coming in on off with the arm. Punched to cover

Ashwin to Dickwella, no run, quick, full, on middle, jammed out

Ashwin to Embuldeniya, 1 run, gets a thick inside-edge on his defence, rolling away through mid-wicket

Ashwin to Embuldeniya, no run, beaten. Forward, defending inside the line, with the ball whizzing past the outside-edge

Ashwin to Embuldeniya, no run, flat, on off, defended back down the pitch

Ashwin to Dickwella, 1 run, fuller, on off, swept away behind square

Ashwin to Dickwella, no run, flat, outside off, squared up outside-edge towards point

Ashwin to Dickwella, FOUR, another slog-sweep. Dickwella gets under the length this time, and reads the flight quite well to get it through an empty mid-wicket

Ashwin to Dickwella, no run, fuller, on middle, blocked back

Ashwin to Dickwella, no run, another sweep tried, but the ball drifts in, bounces extra and goes over the bat to hit the thigh

Ashwin to Dickwella, no run, flat, on the stumps, tapped into the off-side

Ashwin to Dickwella, no run, goes sweeping, but is early into it, with the ball rolling towards the keeper off his glove

Ashwin to Dickwella, no run, a tad squared up, but safely kept out

Ashwin to Embuldeniya, no run, pushed through quicker, and stays low too. Embuldeniya jams his bat down in a hurry off his back foot to toe-end it towards slip

Ashwin to Embuldeniya, no run, leans in front, right under his nose in defence

Ashwin to Embuldeniya, no run,

Ashwin to Embuldeniya, no run, forward defence, but the ball is a lot straighter, taking the inside-edge and rolling away to short leg

Ashwin to Embuldeniya, no run, leg-lined, spinning away. A leg-clearing defence

Ashwin to Embuldeniya, no run, full, on off, Embuldeniya adopts the line, and blocks

Ashwin to Embuldeniya, no run, on the back foot, with some high elbows stuck out in defence

Ashwin to Embuldeniya, no run, fuller, on off, and Embuldeniya's behind it this time

Ashwin to Embuldeniya, no run, tossed up, drifting across from over the wicket, forcing Embuldeniya to have a flirt, only to make him look silly, ripping past

Ashwin to Embuldeniya, no run, quicker, fuller, and

Ashwin to Embuldeniya, no run, ripping off-break, finding the grassy patch just outside off, hitting the seam and spitting up past the defence

Ashwin to Embuldeniya, no run, full, on off, blocked back down the pitch

Ashwin to Embuldeniya, no run, drifting in on leg-stump, and Embuldeniya clears out his front leg to smother it down into the pitch

Ashwin to Embuldeniya, no run, tossed up, on off, forward defence

Ashwin to Dickwella, 1 run, quite a dangerous sweep, fetching it from a pretty straight line on middle and off, but doing well to get it behind square

Ashwin to Dickwella, no run, presses forward, covering his stumps, watching the line outside off spin away

Ashwin to Dickwella, no run, a drive and a miss. Wafts away from his body, with the ball ripping and bouncing past

Ashwin to Dickwella, FOUR, shuffles, sits, outside off, and sweeps it neatly behin square, rolling his wrists on top of it

Ashwin to Dickwella, no run, floated wide outside off. Dickwella plays at it, but does it softly to dig it out towards cover

Ashwin to Dickwella, no run, forward, and a full bat face in defence

Ashwin to Dickwella, no run, lots of flight, very full, squeezed out

Ashwin to Asalanka, out Caught by Kohli!! Ravichandran Ashwin > Kapil Dev. #435, and he becomes the second-highest Indian wicket-taker in Tests. Does it with a ripper too, drawing Asalanka forward as the ball drifts into off, dipping in front of his defence, and hen bouncing extra as well to pop up off the glove towards the keeper, who deflects it off his thigh pad to slip. Asalanka c Kohli b Ashwin 20(9) [4s-2 6s-2]

Ashwin to Asalanka, no run, tossed up, full, on middle, and Asalanka inside-edges his forward defence onto his front foot

Ashwin to Mathews, 1 run, quite short, and tucked off the back foot through mid-wicket

Ashwin to Mathews, no run, flighted outside off, Mathews turns it gently towards mid-wicket

Ashwin to Mathews, no run, extra bounce on the off-break, Mathews gets on top of fends it with soft hands to short leg

Ashwin to Mathews, no run, carrom ball drifting onto the pad, Mathews jams it out into the leg-side

Ashwin to Mathews, SIX, mid-on was in so the invitation was there for Mathews to play the big shot. He steps out of the crease and lofts it with the spin. Clean connection meant that the ball sailed all the way

Ashwin to Mathews, no run, slower through the air, Mathews lunges forward and defends

Ashwin to Mathews, no run, comes down the track, gets to the pitch of the ball and drives it straight back at Ashwin

Ashwin to Mathews, no run, drifts away from the right hander, Mathews stabs it into the off-side

Ashwin to de Silva, 1 run, tossed up around off, de Silva eases it to mid-off and quickly crosses over

Ashwin to Mathews, 1 run, no flight on this delivery and Mathews punches to long-on

Ashwin to Mathews, no run, quicker and outside off, Mathews mistimes the cut to backward point

Ashwin to Mathews, no run, drops it short but the ball spins in, Mathews chops the cut to cover

Ashwin to Mathews, no run, flatter and drifting into the pads, Mathews clips to backward square and da Silva is not keen on the single

Ashwin to Mathews, no run, back, across, and using the in-spin to glance it off his thighs, right into short leg

Ashwin to Mathews, 2 runs, drifting in on middle, pretty full too. Flicked to deep mid-wicket

Ashwin to Mathews, FOUR, some aggression. Steps out, gets right to the pitch of it, and hammers it straight back down the ground

Ashwin to de Silva, 1 run, very full, drifting in on middle, clipped through mid-wicket

Ashwin to de Silva, no run, length, spinning in on off, nudged softly to short leg

Ashwin to de Silva, no run, full, on off. Silva looks to flick, and ends up chipping it back down the pitch off the leading-edge

Ashwin to Mathews, no run, advances, drills back, and Ashwin sticks his left palm out to deflect it to mid-off

Ashwin to Mathews, no run, full, on middle, easy nudgings these, to short leg

Ashwin to Mathews, no run, tossed up wider outside off. Mathews stretches, and keeps it out

Ashwin to Mathews, no run, soften his nudge, taking the bottom hand off to adjust to the sharp spin-in as he works it to leg-slip

Ashwin to Mathews, no run, forward, sitting behind the line to block back down the pitch

Ashwin to Mathews, no run, tossed up, dipping full on off, flicked to mid-on

Ashwin to Karunaratne, FOUR, short, wide, slow. Sitting up nicely as well. Karunaratne rocks back, chops firmly in front of backward point

Ashwin to Karunaratne, no run, very full, and a squeezy-drive to cover

Ashwin to Karunaratne, no run, drifting across on off from over the wicket, pushed watchfully to cover

Ashwin to Mathews, 1 run, walks out, and whips it from the pitch of it to long-on

Ashwin to Mathews, no run, flighted fuller, on off, leaning block back

Ashwin to Mathews, no run, back, across, looking to flick, but the ball straightens, takes the leading-edge and rolls back down the pitch

Ashwin to Karunaratne, no run, full, on off, pushed to cover

Ashwin to Karunaratne, no run, comprehensively beaten. Forward with the loop, only for the ball to dip all of a sudden and spin big past the defensive outside-edge

Ashwin to Karunaratne, no run, flatter, angling in, tucked to short mid-wicket

Ashwin to Karunaratne, no run, quickly shuffling across, and then crouching low in defence

Ashwin to Karunaratne, no run, clears out his front leg and dead-bats it to silly point

Ashwin to Mathews, 1 run, full on off, clipped through mid-wicket

Ashwin to Karunaratne, FOUR, absolute grubber this .. coming in, staying low and Karunaratne has no clue whatsoever. He backs away, jabs his bat down in desperation, and finds an inside-edge rolling away past leg-stump, past the keeper

Ashwin to Karunaratne, no run, drifts in now, on middle, straight-batted block

Ashwin to Karunaratne, no run, forward again, pushing it out, right at the pitch of it, to cover

Ashwin to Karunaratne, no run, very full, and Karunaratne's easily on top of it to smother

Ashwin to Mathews, 1 run, fuller, looped up, and flicked to long-on

Ashwin to Mathews, no run, carrom ball, on middle, kept out off the back foot

Ashwin to Mathews, no run, has a big stride towards the ball, to the pitch of it, defending it off the inside-half to leg

Ashwin to Nissanka, out Caught by Pant!! Not all that big an appeal for a caught-behind from the Indians, but Pant is convinced, and is convincing enough for Rohit to take it upstairs. It's the perfect set up, with a bunch of off-breaks outside off with varying degrees of turn on them, forcing Nissanka to poke at this one tentatively, only to turn back in ever so slightly, and take a thin feather through to the keeper. UltraEdge has spotted it. Ashwin's spinning a web here, and that web has taken him to 434 wickets, to equal the GOAT, Kapil Dev. Nissanka c Pant b Ashwin 6(19) [4s-1]

Ashwin to Nissanka, no run, skids off a length, and Nissanka makes matters worse for himself by looking to play it off the back foot, having to really crouch to keep it out

Ashwin to Nissanka, no run, slowed up even more, and defended back down the pitch

Ashwin to Nissanka, no run, tossed up further outside off, and Nissanka strides towards it, plays for the in-spin, only for the ball to straighten past the outside-edge

Ashwin to Nissanka, FOUR, a big sweep, fetching it from well outside off, going down and nailing it through an empty square leg

Ashwin to Nissanka, leg byes, 1 run, flat, on the stumps, and past Nissanka's back-footed nudge to roll off his thigh pads, behind square

Ashwin to Nissanka, no run, short, drifting in, and spinning well down leg

Ashwin to Karunaratne, 1 run, slightly fuller, and Karunaratne drives it wide of cover for a quick one

Ashwin to Karunaratne, no run, beats the edge. Karunaratne presses forward in defence, but the ball drifts in and spins sharply after pitching

Ashwin to Karunaratne, no run, on a length, which Karunaratne waits for on his committed front foot, to tap away into the off-side

Ashwin to Karunaratne, no run, flighted up outside off, and pushed watchfully to cover

Ashwin to Nissanka, 1 run, too full and turning in, Nissanka works it wide of mid-wicket and opens his account

Ashwin to Nissanka, no run, appeal from Ashwin for a LBW. Umpire Menon is not interested. They discuss about the review but don't take it. Touch quicker but there's still turn, Nissanka plays outside the line and is beaten on the inside edge, struck in-line with the stumps but it was spinning and height was also questionable

Ashwin to Nissanka, no run, slow and turning in, Nissanka misses the nudge and is struck high on the pad

Ashwin to Thirimanne, out Caught by Rohit!! Wicket #433 and Ashwin equals Herath. He has had Thirimanne's number in this Test. Dismissed him with a slider in the first innings and now with a classical offie. Flighted on off-stump, Thirimanne has to play because of the line, the ball spins away and takes the outside edge, Rohit dives low to his right and hangs on to a good catch. India have an early wicket. Thirimanne c Rohit b Ashwin 0(9)

Ashwin to Thirimanne, no run, more loop on this off-break and Thirimanne outside halves the block to backward point

Ashwin to Thirimanne, no run, tossed up on off, Thirimanne leans forward and defends to cover

Ashwin to Thirimanne, no run, uhhh! That's a peach to end the over. Tossed up around off, Thirimanne is drawn into the forward defensive and the ball spins away to beat the outside edge

Ashwin to Thirimanne, no run, floated up around off, Thirimanne pushes it to cover

Ashwin to Thirimanne, no run, flatter and skidding on, Thirimanne hurriedly brings his bat down and gets a leading edge back to Ashwin

Ashwin to Thirimanne, no run, that's better. Flighted on off-stump, Thirimanne presses forward and keeps it out

Ashwin to Thirimanne, no run, once more the length is a touch fuller and Thirimanne defends it back

Ashwin to Thirimanne, no run, tossed up but the length is too full, easy forward block for Thirimanne