08-06-2017, 15:25
India finish their innings 321-6 off the fifty, with a big final over pushing them up by an extra fifteen runs. At one stage it looked like they might make 400+ with Sharma and Dhawan going great guns, so Sri Lanka have to give themselves a pat on the back, but India remain very much in the driving seat. Sri Lanka have only successfully chased down a total this big once before (against England at Headingley in 2006), but they've also posted a few bigger second-innings scores in losing causes too, including one earlier this year, so who knows? Good luck to them.
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