Under the leadership of Rohit Sharma, Team India won the 7th consecutive bilateral series on 14 March 2022. He defeated Sri Lanka by 238 runs in the Pink Ball Test. With this victory, Team India created history. Team India, for the first time in its 90-year cricket history, made a clean sweep against two teams in a series of two or more formats in a row.
Team India had won the T20 and ODI series against West Indies 3-0 and 3-0 before Sri Lanka. This is Team India’s 15th consecutive series win at home. Before this, he had to lose the series against England for the last time in December 2012 at home. Then the command of Team India was in the hands of MS Dhoni.
Ravichandran Ashwin took 6 wickets in the Pink Ball Test match played at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. He took 2 wickets for 30 runs in 8.5 overs in the first innings. In the second innings, he took 4 wickets for 55 runs in 19.3 overs.
In the second innings, Ashwin took the last wicket of Sri Lanka (Vishwa Fernando). With the wicket of Fernando, he equaled Shane Warne’s record. In fact, in test cricket Ashwin Has won India for the 22nd time by taking the last wicket. Shane Warne also did this 22 times.
Rohit Sharma also equaled Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, MS Dhoni and Ajinkya Rahane. Rohit has won both his first Test matches as captain. Sachin Tendulkar (1996), Sourav Ganguly (2000), MS Dhoni (2008) and Ajinkya Rahane (2017-18) have done the same feat.
Rohit Sharma He has also been successful in winning his first series as a captain in every format. Rishabh Pant also created history along with Rohit. He was adjudged Player of the Series. He is the first Indian wicketkeeper to be named Man of the Series in the Test format. Shreyas Iyer is the third Indian to become the Player of the Match in the Day-Night Test (Pink Ball Match). Before him, Akshar Patel and Ishant Sharma have done this achievement in their name.
After the win, Ashwin said, ‘I don’t think about what I want to achieve, I just believe in doing good work in my spell. Bowling with the pink ball was a challenge. Today, in the first two-three overs of every spell, the ball was getting out of hand very well. It takes 12 to 15 balls to grasp the pitch and read the correct tempo. It gets easier for the characters. Compared to the pitch in Ahmedabad, this pitch was rotating more.