After reducing the Lankans to 19-1 enforcing the follow on on Day 2, India completed the formalities before tea on the third day of Pallekele Test. India completed the whitewash on the Lankan soil and it was the first occasion where the men in blue managed a whitewash on an away tour. The Lankans could manage to survive only four sessions in two attempts as India won the match by a whopping margin of an innings and 171 runs.

Shikhar Dhawan was adjudged as the man of the series for his couple of centuries and Hardik Pandya received the man of the match award for his all round performance. Let us look at the five talking points in the recently concluded Test match Pallekele.

<a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/04/Shikhar-Dhawan-and-KL-Rahul.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-167673" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Shikhar-Dhawan-and-KL-Rahul-600x375.jpg" alt="Shikhar Dhawan and KL Rahul" width="600" height="375" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-167673" class="wp-caption-text">Indian cricketer Shikhar Dhawan and teammate Lokesh Rahul run between the wickets. (Photo by LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption>

The number one Test side in the world presently have three genuine options to deal with, by the names of Shikhar Dhawan, Murali Vijay and KL Rahul.<a href="https://www.crictracker.com/play-like-king-get-way-shikhar-dhawan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong> Shikhar Dhawan</strong> </a>brought up his second century in the series following his mammoth knock of 190 in the Colombo Test. He scored a breezy inning of 119 off just 123 deliveries at a strike rate of almost 97. The Sunrisers opener scored 17 boundaries in the process.

Kl Rahul also continued his rich form with the bat, as he brought up his second consecutive half century in the series. Rahul scored his seventh consecutive half century in Tests to join the likes Andy Flower, Kumar Sangakkara, Chris Rogers, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Everton Weekes who have the same number of consecutive half centuries in the longest format of the game. The duo also forged a monumental partnership of 188 runs at a run rate of almost 5, taking the game away early from the Lankans.

2. Pandya- India&#8217;s answer to Ben Stokes

<a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/08/Hardik-Pandya-2.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-167825" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Hardik-Pandya-2-600x375.jpg" alt="Hardik Pandya" width="600" height="375" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-167825" class="wp-caption-text">India&#8217;s Hardik Pandya celebrates after scoring a century. (Photo by LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption>

Hardik Pandya had a game to remember as he struck his maiden ton in the whites for India. He also picked up a wicket to go with it. After losing Yadav, all hell broke loose for Pandya as he attacked the Sri Lankans with his power hitting. He scored 26 off a single over from Malinda Pushpakumara. Pandya first scored a couple of boundaries off the first two balls of the over and then followed it up with three successive maximums in the next three deliveries.

The Baroda all-rounder scored the fastest century in Test Cricket (in 86 balls), coming in at number 8, as he scored 106 off just 96 deliveries, at a strike rate of 112.5, smashing eight boundaries and seven sixes. The first fifty of his innings came off 61 deliveries, while the second fifty came off just 25. 48 of them in the second half of his innings came through boundaries. With this performance, the Indians can now breathe a sigh of relief to find a genuine seaming all rounder along the standards of Mitchell Marsh, Ben Stokes and <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/jamaican-anti-doping-commission-takes-down-its-appeal-to-extend-andre-russells-ban/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Andre Russell.</strong></a>

3. Sri Lanka providing the upper hand to India with the ball

<a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/08/Sri-Lanka-1.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-168066" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Sri-Lanka-1-600x375.jpg" alt="Sri Lanka" width="600" height="375" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-168066" class="wp-caption-text">Sri Lankan cricketer Dimuth Karunaratne reacts after been hit. (Photo by LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption>

After reducing the Indians to 339-7 and India losing Saha, Chandimal should have hoped to dismiss the tail of the Indians within 360-370. Sri Lanka would believe that they gave 110 runs too many to the visitors looking at the India score in the first innings.

It was the partnership between Kuldeep and Pandya which started the stretch of the Indian score. The duo added important 61 runs down the order to frustrate the Lankan bowlers. Pandya followed it up by stitching a vital last wicket partnership of 66 off just 8.1 overs with <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/first-held-leather-ball-age-20-says-umesh-yadav/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Umesh Yadav.</strong></a> 

<a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/08/Angelo-Mathews.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-168003" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Angelo-Mathews-600x375.jpg" alt="Angelo Mathews" width="600" height="375" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-168003" class="wp-caption-text">Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli celebrates after dismissing Sri Lankan batsman Angelo Mathews.<br>(Photo by ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption>

After letting the visitors get away with far too many runs for their liking, the Lankans followed it up with a couple of dismal performance with the bat. In reply to India&#8217;s first innings score, Sri Lanka lasted only 37 overs in the first innings to score 135 runs. Indian captain <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/michael-hussey-compares-virat-kohlis-leadership-ricky-ponting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Virat Kohli</strong></a> asked the hosts to bat again, enforcing the follow on for the second successive occasion in the series.

The Lankan Lions offered a better resistance in their second innings and but eventually were bundled out for 181. None of the batsmen could even manage a score of above 50 in both the innings. This was the third occasion in the three match series where Kohli was in a position to decide whether to enforce the follow on or bat again.

<a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/08/Virat-Kohli-India-1.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-168094" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Virat-Kohli-India-1-600x375.jpg" alt="Virat Kohli India" width="600" height="375" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-168094" class="wp-caption-text">Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli celebrates with his teammates. (Photo by LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption>

Apart from the batting, India&#8217;s bowling was far superior in the Test match as they were able to dismiss the Sri Lankans twice in just four sessions of the Test match. <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/kuldeep-yadav-shows-tremendous-situational-awareness-dismiss-kusal-mendis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Kuldeep Yadav</strong></a> was the star in the first innings as he picked up four wickets. After enforcing the follow on, Lankans gave away four wickets to India&#8217;s ace spinner Ravichandran Ashwin. Mohammad Shami was almost unplayable in both the innings as he ended up with five wickets in the match.

After remaining wicketless in the first innings, Umesh Yadav came back to pick up a couple of wickets in the second innings of Lanka. Kohli had so many options in hand that he did not require the services of Pandya who bowled just the solitary over in the second innings after picking up a wicket in the first innings.

<p>After reducing the Lankans to 19-1 enforcing the follow on on Day 2, India completed the formalities before tea on the third day of Pallekele Test. India completed the whitewash on the Lankan soil and it was the first occasion where the men in blue managed a whitewash on an away tour. The Lankans could manage to survive only four sessions in two attempts as India won the match by a whopping margin of an innings and 171 runs.</p>
<p>Shikhar Dhawan was adjudged as the man of the series for his couple of centuries and Hardik Pandya received the man of the match award for his all round performance. Let us look at the five talking points in the recently concluded Test match Pallekele.</p>
<h3>1. Dominance of Indian openers</h3>
<figure id="attachment_167673" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-167673" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"><a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/04/Shikhar-Dhawan-and-KL-Rahul.jpg"><amp-img class="size-large wp-image-167673" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Shikhar-Dhawan-and-KL-Rahul-600x375.jpg" alt="Shikhar Dhawan and KL Rahul" width="600" height="375" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-167673" class="wp-caption-text">Indian cricketer Shikhar Dhawan and teammate Lokesh Rahul run between the wickets. (Photo by LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
<p>The number one Test side in the world presently have three genuine options to deal with, by the names of Shikhar Dhawan, Murali Vijay and KL Rahul.<a href="https://www.crictracker.com/play-like-king-get-way-shikhar-dhawan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong> Shikhar Dhawan</strong> </a>brought up his second century in the series following his mammoth knock of 190 in the Colombo Test. He scored a breezy inning&nbsp;of 119 off just 123 deliveries at a strike rate of almost 97. The Sunrisers opener scored 17 boundaries in the process.</p>
<p>Kl Rahul also continued his rich form with the bat, as he brought up his second consecutive half century in the series. Rahul scored his seventh consecutive half century in Tests to join the likes Andy Flower, Kumar Sangakkara, Chris Rogers, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Everton Weekes who have the same number of consecutive half centuries in the longest format of the game. The duo also forged a monumental partnership of 188 runs at a run rate of almost 5, taking the game away early from the Lankans.</p>
<h3>2. Pandya- India’s answer to Ben Stokes</h3>
<figure id="attachment_167825" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-167825" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"><a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/08/Hardik-Pandya-2.jpg"><amp-img class="size-large wp-image-167825" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Hardik-Pandya-2-600x375.jpg" alt="Hardik Pandya" width="600" height="375" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-167825" class="wp-caption-text">India’s Hardik Pandya celebrates after scoring a century. (Photo by LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
<p>Hardik Pandya had a game to remember as he struck his maiden ton in the whites for India. He also picked up a wicket to go with it. After losing Yadav, all hell broke loose for Pandya as he attacked the Sri Lankans with his power hitting. He scored 26 off a single over from Malinda Pushpakumara. Pandya first scored a couple of boundaries off the first two balls of the over and then followed it up with three successive maximums in the next three deliveries.</p>
<p>The Baroda all-rounder scored the fastest century in Test Cricket (in 86 balls), coming in at number 8, as he scored 106 off just 96 deliveries, at a strike rate of 112.5, smashing eight boundaries and seven sixes. The first fifty of his innings came off 61 deliveries, while the second fifty came off just 25. 48 of them in the second half of his innings came through boundaries.&nbsp;With this performance, the Indians can now breathe a sigh of relief to find a genuine seaming all rounder along the standards of Mitchell Marsh, Ben Stokes and <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/jamaican-anti-doping-commission-takes-down-its-appeal-to-extend-andre-russells-ban/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Andre Russell.</strong></a></p>
<h3>3. Sri Lanka providing the upper hand to India with the ball</h3>
<figure id="attachment_168066" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-168066" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"><a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/08/Sri-Lanka-1.jpg"><amp-img class="size-large wp-image-168066" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Sri-Lanka-1-600x375.jpg" alt="Sri Lanka" width="600" height="375" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-168066" class="wp-caption-text">Sri Lankan cricketer Dimuth Karunaratne reacts after been hit. (Photo by LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
<p>After reducing the Indians to 339-7 and India losing Saha, Chandimal should have hoped to dismiss the tail of the Indians within 360-370. Sri Lanka would believe that they gave 110 runs too many to the visitors looking at the India score in the first innings.</p>
<p>It was the partnership between Kuldeep and Pandya which started the stretch of the Indian score. The duo added important 61 runs down the order to frustrate the Lankan bowlers. Pandya followed it up by stitching a vital last wicket partnership of 66 off just 8.1 overs with <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/first-held-leather-ball-age-20-says-umesh-yadav/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Umesh Yadav.</strong></a>&nbsp;</p>
<h3>4. Dismal batting from the hosts</h3>
<figure id="attachment_168003" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-168003" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"><a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/08/Angelo-Mathews.jpg"><amp-img class="size-large wp-image-168003" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Angelo-Mathews-600x375.jpg" alt="Angelo Mathews" width="600" height="375" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-168003" class="wp-caption-text">Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli celebrates after dismissing Sri Lankan batsman Angelo Mathews.<br>(Photo by ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
<p>After letting the visitors get away with far too many runs for their liking, the Lankans followed it up with a couple of dismal performance with the bat. In reply to India’s first innings score, Sri Lanka lasted only 37 overs in the first innings to score 135 runs. Indian captain <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/michael-hussey-compares-virat-kohlis-leadership-ricky-ponting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Virat Kohli</strong></a> asked the hosts to bat again, enforcing the follow on for the second successive occasion in the series.</p>
<p>The Lankan Lions offered a better resistance in their second innings and but eventually were bundled out for 181. None of the batsmen could even manage a score of above 50 in both the innings. This was the third occasion in the three match series where Kohli was in a position to decide whether to enforce the follow on or bat again.</p>
<h3>5. Superior bowling lineup of India</h3>
<figure id="attachment_168094" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-168094" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"><a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/08/Virat-Kohli-India-1.jpg"><amp-img class="size-large wp-image-168094" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Virat-Kohli-India-1-600x375.jpg" alt="Virat Kohli India" width="600" height="375" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-168094" class="wp-caption-text">Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli celebrates with his teammates. (Photo by LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
<p>Apart from the batting, India’s bowling was far superior in the Test match as they were able to dismiss the Sri Lankans twice in just four sessions of the Test match. <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/kuldeep-yadav-shows-tremendous-situational-awareness-dismiss-kusal-mendis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Kuldeep Yadav</strong></a> was the star in the first innings as he picked up four wickets. After enforcing the follow on, Lankans gave away four wickets to India’s ace spinner Ravichandran Ashwin. Mohammad Shami was almost unplayable in both the innings as he ended up with five wickets in the match.</p>
<p>After remaining wicketless in the first innings, Umesh Yadav came back to pick up a couple of wickets in the second innings of Lanka. Kohli had so many options in hand that he did not require the services of Pandya who bowled just the solitary over in the second innings after picking up a wicket in the first innings.</p>

<p>After reducing the Lankans to 19-1 enforcing the follow on on Day 2, India completed the formalities before tea on the third day of Pallekele Test. India completed the whitewash on the Lankan soil and it was the first occasion where the men in blue managed a whitewash on an away tour. The Lankans could manage to survive only four sessions in two attempts as India won the match by a whopping margin of an innings and 171 runs.</p>
<p>Shikhar Dhawan was adjudged as the man of the series for his couple of centuries and Hardik Pandya received the man of the match award for his all round performance. Let us look at the five talking points in the recently concluded Test match Pallekele.</p>
<h3>1. Dominance of Indian openers</h3>
<figure id="attachment_167673" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-167673" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/04/Shikhar-Dhawan-and-KL-Rahul.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-167673" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Shikhar-Dhawan-and-KL-Rahul-600x375.jpg" alt="Shikhar Dhawan and KL Rahul" width="600" height="375" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-167673" class="wp-caption-text">Indian cricketer Shikhar Dhawan and teammate Lokesh Rahul run between the wickets. (Photo by LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
<p>The number one Test side in the world presently have three genuine options to deal with, by the names of Shikhar Dhawan, Murali Vijay and KL Rahul.<a href="https://www.crictracker.com/play-like-king-get-way-shikhar-dhawan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong> Shikhar Dhawan</strong> </a>brought up his second century in the series following his mammoth knock of 190 in the Colombo Test. He scored a breezy inning of 119 off just 123 deliveries at a strike rate of almost 97. The Sunrisers opener scored 17 boundaries in the process.</p>
<p>Kl Rahul also continued his rich form with the bat, as he brought up his second consecutive half century in the series. Rahul scored his seventh consecutive half century in Tests to join the likes Andy Flower, Kumar Sangakkara, Chris Rogers, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Everton Weekes who have the same number of consecutive half centuries in the longest format of the game. The duo also forged a monumental partnership of 188 runs at a run rate of almost 5, taking the game away early from the Lankans.</p>
<h3>2. Pandya- India&#8217;s answer to Ben Stokes</h3>
<figure id="attachment_167825" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-167825" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/08/Hardik-Pandya-2.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-167825" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Hardik-Pandya-2-600x375.jpg" alt="Hardik Pandya" width="600" height="375" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-167825" class="wp-caption-text">India&#8217;s Hardik Pandya celebrates after scoring a century. (Photo by LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
<p>Hardik Pandya had a game to remember as he struck his maiden ton in the whites for India. He also picked up a wicket to go with it. After losing Yadav, all hell broke loose for Pandya as he attacked the Sri Lankans with his power hitting. He scored 26 off a single over from Malinda Pushpakumara. Pandya first scored a couple of boundaries off the first two balls of the over and then followed it up with three successive maximums in the next three deliveries.</p>
<p>The Baroda all-rounder scored the fastest century in Test Cricket (in 86 balls), coming in at number 8, as he scored 106 off just 96 deliveries, at a strike rate of 112.5, smashing eight boundaries and seven sixes. The first fifty of his innings came off 61 deliveries, while the second fifty came off just 25. 48 of them in the second half of his innings came through boundaries. With this performance, the Indians can now breathe a sigh of relief to find a genuine seaming all rounder along the standards of Mitchell Marsh, Ben Stokes and <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/jamaican-anti-doping-commission-takes-down-its-appeal-to-extend-andre-russells-ban/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Andre Russell.</strong></a></p>
<h3>3. Sri Lanka providing the upper hand to India with the ball</h3>
<figure id="attachment_168066" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-168066" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/08/Sri-Lanka-1.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-168066" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Sri-Lanka-1-600x375.jpg" alt="Sri Lanka" width="600" height="375" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-168066" class="wp-caption-text">Sri Lankan cricketer Dimuth Karunaratne reacts after been hit. (Photo by LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
<p>After reducing the Indians to 339-7 and India losing Saha, Chandimal should have hoped to dismiss the tail of the Indians within 360-370. Sri Lanka would believe that they gave 110 runs too many to the visitors looking at the India score in the first innings.</p>
<p>It was the partnership between Kuldeep and Pandya which started the stretch of the Indian score. The duo added important 61 runs down the order to frustrate the Lankan bowlers. Pandya followed it up by stitching a vital last wicket partnership of 66 off just 8.1 overs with <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/first-held-leather-ball-age-20-says-umesh-yadav/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Umesh Yadav.</strong></a> </p>
<h3>4. Dismal batting from the hosts</h3>
<figure id="attachment_168003" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-168003" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/08/Angelo-Mathews.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-168003" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Angelo-Mathews-600x375.jpg" alt="Angelo Mathews" width="600" height="375" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-168003" class="wp-caption-text">Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli celebrates after dismissing Sri Lankan batsman Angelo Mathews.<br>(Photo by ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
<p>After letting the visitors get away with far too many runs for their liking, the Lankans followed it up with a couple of dismal performance with the bat. In reply to India&#8217;s first innings score, Sri Lanka lasted only 37 overs in the first innings to score 135 runs. Indian captain <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/michael-hussey-compares-virat-kohlis-leadership-ricky-ponting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Virat Kohli</strong></a> asked the hosts to bat again, enforcing the follow on for the second successive occasion in the series.</p>
<p>The Lankan Lions offered a better resistance in their second innings and but eventually were bundled out for 181. None of the batsmen could even manage a score of above 50 in both the innings. This was the third occasion in the three match series where Kohli was in a position to decide whether to enforce the follow on or bat again.</p>
<h3>5. Superior bowling lineup of India</h3>
<figure id="attachment_168094" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-168094" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/08/Virat-Kohli-India-1.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-168094" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Virat-Kohli-India-1-600x375.jpg" alt="Virat Kohli India" width="600" height="375" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-168094" class="wp-caption-text">Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli celebrates with his teammates. (Photo by LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
<p>Apart from the batting, India&#8217;s bowling was far superior in the Test match as they were able to dismiss the Sri Lankans twice in just four sessions of the Test match. <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/kuldeep-yadav-shows-tremendous-situational-awareness-dismiss-kusal-mendis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Kuldeep Yadav</strong></a> was the star in the first innings as he picked up four wickets. After enforcing the follow on, Lankans gave away four wickets to India&#8217;s ace spinner Ravichandran Ashwin. Mohammad Shami was almost unplayable in both the innings as he ended up with five wickets in the match.</p>
<p>After remaining wicketless in the first innings, Umesh Yadav came back to pick up a couple of wickets in the second innings of Lanka. Kohli had so many options in hand that he did not require the services of Pandya who bowled just the solitary over in the second innings after picking up a wicket in the first innings.</p>

India complete the formalites before Tea and whitewashed the 3-match series

Sri Lanka vs India, 3rd Test Match: 5 Talking Points

After reducing the Lankans to 19-1 enforcing the follow on on Day 2, India completed the formalities before tea on the third day of Pallekele Test. India