Jasprit Bumrah took five wickets in the first innings in the Pink Ball Test between India and Sri Lanka being played in Bangalore. Mohammed Shami also took 2 wickets in his name. With this, the entire team of Sri Lanka was reduced to 109 runs and India took a lead of 143 runs. Bumrah took five wickets in an innings at home for the first time.
Also Mohammed Shami became the best average bowler in Asia, leaving former Pakistani pacer Imran Khan. Shami’s bowling average in Asia is 20.48. Talking about his overall average, he has taken 214 wickets in 111 innings of 59 Test matches at an average of 26.93.
This was Jasprit Bumrah’s 8th five-wicket haul in Test cricket. In the case of doing this in 29 Test matches, only Kapil Dev has been able to do so so far. Bumrah has taken five wickets in an innings twice in West Indies, South Africa and England and 1-1 in India and Australia. He has 120 wickets in 55 innings of 29 Test matches.
16 wickets fell on the first day of the ongoing Bangalore Test between India and Sri Lanka. This is the first time in the history of Day Night Test match that so many wickets have fallen on the first day. Earlier, the record for the most number of wickets falling on the first day was 13. Apart from this, talking about the overall test, after 16 years it has happened in India that 16 wickets have fallen on the first day of a test match.
It is worth noting that the second test match of the two-match Test series being played between India and Sri Lanka started in Bengaluru with a pink ball. In the Day Night Test, Indian captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bat first. After this the entire Indian team was all out for 252 runs. In reply, Sri Lanka also lost 6 wickets for 86 runs till the end of the day. On the second day, Sri Lanka’s remaining 4 wickets fell within half an hour.