New Delhi: In both the innings (174+178) of the Mohali Test, Sri Lanka could not score as many runs as India had scored in its first innings (574 runs). Ravindra Jadeja emerged as a hero in this one-sided victory of 222 runs and an innings on the third day. In the first innings, the entire team was one run behind Jadeja’s individual score, while in the second innings could only make three runs more. Jadeja was also adjudged man of the match due to his excellent all-round play of 175 runs and nine wickets.

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Jadeja became man of the match for the third time in Mohali

This was Virat Kohli’s hundredth Test and Rohit Sharma’s first Test as captain. But Jaddu proved to be the hero in this. Jadeja was playing his fourth Test overall at the Mohali ground. And won the player of the match award for the third time. He could not win the man of the match award in just his first Test here. In that match against Australia, Shikhar Dhawan won this award by playing an innings of 187 runs while making his debut. But after that he became the hero of India’s victories against South Africa in 2015. Against England in 2016 and now against Sri Lanka. Jadeja has scored 327 runs in 6 innings in Mohali. With the ball also surprised everyone by getting 27 wickets in 8 innings.

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175 runs with the bat then 9 wickets with the bowling

Sri Lanka lost 16 wickets on the third day. Jadeja, who took five wickets in the first innings, came on the attack a little late. But in the sixth over of coming on the attack, he took the first wicket of the second innings in the form of Dhananjay de Silva (30). None of the Sri Lankan batsmen could understand Jadeja’s balls. This is the first time in the history of Test cricket that a player has taken 9 wickets. Apart from scoring 150 or more runs in a single test. Earlier, Jadeja had also broken Kapil Dev’s 36-year-old record. When he came out to bat at the seventh order in the first innings and scored 175 runs.

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The ‘paw’ was also opened in the first innings

Earlier, Jadeja took five wickets for 41 runs in 13 overs in the first innings. Leaving the Sri Lankan team out in 65 overs. Sri Lanka lost the last six wickets within 13 runs. After the score of 161 for four in the first hour. The entire team returned to the pavilion for 174 runs. Pathum Nisanka scored an unbeaten 61 off 133 balls while Charith Asalanka added 58 runs. Bumrah started the collapse of the Sri Lankan innings by dismissing Asalanka. The rest of the batsmen lost their wickets by playing bad shots. Jadeja has achieved the feat of taking five wickets in an innings for the 20th time in Test cricket.