India had scored 400 runs on the first day in Kanpur: only 31 runs were scored in the first 11 overs; later Sehwag-Gambhir batted aggressively – Kanpur News

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Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir came out to open the innings. Virender Sehwag missed an easy catch on the third ball. It seemed that what Dhoni said was correct. But what happened after this is remembered till date. Many big records were made in that Kanpur test. There is a match between India and Bangladesh here on 27th September, before that let’s know the story of this match…

This is the current picture. The entire ground is green. There is a possibility that India will field three spinners here.

Sehwag could not hit a single boundary for 11 overs Chanaka Welegedara came to bowl the first over from Sri Lanka. Gautam Gambhir took a single on the first ball and gave the strike to Virender Sehwag. After two dot balls, Virender Sehwag tried to hit a four through a straight drive but the ball took the outside edge of the bat and went to the slip. Mahela Jayawardene dropped an easy catch. In the 5th over, when he was playing on 2 runs, there was a strong appeal for LBW on Angelo Mathews’ ball but he survived.

Gambhir and Sehwag started slowly but later scored runs quickly.

11 overs passed. The team’s score was 31 runs. Sehwag was playing after scoring 6 runs on 24 balls. It seemed that today is not his day at Green Park. But in the 12th over Sehwag returned to form. He hit 2 fours. He completed his half century with 7 fours and 1 six on 60 balls. On the other hand Gambhir also hit a fifty. It seemed that today is the day of these two players in Kanpur. In the first session India scored 131 runs in 26 overs.

India made the highest score on the very first day Sehwag, who scored 6 runs in 24 balls, scored a century in 97 balls. Sehwag was out after scoring 131 runs in 122 balls in 181 minutes. Gambhir also scored a century in the 42nd over. When the second session ended, the team’s score was 307 runs for 1 wicket. The talk of bowler friendly wicket had ended here.

The Sri Lankan bowlers became frustrated and disappointed. When the first day’s play ended, the team’s score was 417 runs for 2 wickets. For the first time in Test history, India had crossed the 400 mark on the first day. Dravid was unbeaten on 85 runs.

Virender Sehwag played slowly in the beginning but later hit a lot of sixes and fours.

On the second day, India batted fast. Dravid scored a century. Laxman played quick innings of 63 and 67 runs. India’s innings ended at 642 runs. Sri Lanka’s spinner Rangana Herath took 5 wickets. This was an indication that Indian spinners would get help here. But in the beginning, just the opposite happened.

India had achieved the biggest lead Sri Lanka’s innings started. On the very first ball, Tillakaratne Dilshan fell prey to Zaheer Khan. Kumar Sangakkara and Tharanga held the innings together but both were dismissed by Sreesanth. The entire team was out for 229 runs.

Mahela Jayawardene scored the highest 47 runs. Sreesanth took the highest 5 wickets. India got a lead of 413 runs. This was India’s biggest lead in the first innings till that time. Captain Dhoni asked Sri Lanka to follow on.

Zaheer Khan dismissed Dilsan on the first ball.

Sri Lanka, who came to play the second innings, got a jolt in the third over by Sreesanth. Dilshan was out after scoring 11 runs. Half of Sri Lanka’s team was in the pavilion at 79 runs. After this, Samaraweera took charge of the innings and made small partnerships but could not prevent the team’s crushing defeat. The whole team was bowled out for 269 runs and Sri Lanka lost by an innings and 144 runs.

This is India’s 100th victory India registered its 100th victory in Test cricket history by defeating Sri Lanka. Kanpur’s Green Park Stadium was a witness to this. The country played its first match in 1932-33. The first victory was against England in 1952. That means it took Team India 77 years to reach this journey of 100 victories. Sreesanth, who took 6 wickets in this match, was given the Man of the Match.

Sreesanth, who took 5 wickets in the first innings and 1 in the second, got the Man of the Match award.

There were two more reasons related to Sreesanth in this match. First, during an IPL match in 2009, there was a dispute between Harbhajan Singh and Sreesanth in which Harbhajan slapped Sreesanth. After this, there was a lot of uproar. Both of them played together for the first time in this test match in Kanpur. Every time Sreesanth took a wicket, Harbhajan celebrated that moment.

On 9 May 2013, Sreesanth did fixing in an IPL match. After this match, Sreesanth’s career almost ended. He was banned for life from Team India. Sreesanth filed a petition against this in the Supreme Court.

In 2019, the court asked the BCCI to reduce his ban. On the court’s request, the BCCI removed the lifetime ban on Sreesanth and made it a ban of 7 years. This was completed in 2020. However, Sreesanth could not play any match for Team India.

India registered its 100th victory with this Test win.

The target is to become the fourth successful team by winning in Kanpur India has played 580 test matches so far. It has won 179 of these matches. South Africa has also won the same number of matches. If India defeats Bangladesh here, it will go ahead of South Africa. Ahead of it will be West Indies with 183 wins, England with 397 wins and Australia with 414 wins.

In this match in Kanpur, the pitch will be seen helping the batsmen for the first two days but after that the pitch will start breaking and then the spinners will get help. In the last match, Ashwin and Jadeja defeated Bangladesh first on the basis of batting and then bowling. This pair can be effective here this time too.