The confident Indian side is all set to take on Sri Lankans in the second Test match at the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo on August 3. Already having won the first Test match, Virat Kohli & Co. will be aiming to seal the three-Test series by winning the second Test match. Team India won the first Test match by 304-run played at Galle International Stadium. For India KL Rahul, who was left out from the first Test due to fever, will make a comeback in the playing XI. Abhinav Mukund, who scored a crafty 81 in India’s second innings, may be left out for the second Test. For Sri Lanka, skipper Dinesh Chandimal has recovered from pneumonia and will be available for this Test.
Match Timings
The second Test match between India and Sri Lanka will start at 10 am IST on August 3. The toss will takes place at 9.30 am IST.
Where to watch live telecast and streaming of India vs Sri Lanka 2nd Test?
India vs Sri Lanka, 2nd Test, will be broadcast live on Sony Six and other channels of Sony Ten network. The match will be streamed live on www.sonyliv.com
And…off we go #TeamIndia #SLvIND pic.twitter.com/ub0FOy0bCi
— BCCI (@BCCI) August 3, 2017
Key Players
Team India: Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara all are in fine form. In the first Test, Dhawan smashed a 168-ball 190 in the first innings to steer India to a mammoth total of 600. Cheteshwar Pujara too played a vital knock of 153 off 265 balls at Galle. He will be eager to repeat his performance in what will be his career’s 50th Test. Virat Kohli also completed its 17th Test century during India’s second innings. Both the pacers and the spinners also impressed Indian fans in the Galle Test.
Team Sri Lanka: Nuwan Pradeep was the only positive the island nation can take from the first Test as the pacer took six wickets in the first essay and bowled really well. The home side will also hope veteran left-arm spinner Rangana Herath, who looked pedestrian in the first match, will deliver against a strong Indian line-up.
Squads
India: Shikhar Dhawan, Abhinav Mukund, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli (c), Ajinkya Rahane, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami
I'm positive about the fact that the current Indian team can do things that probably no other Indian team has done before – @RaviShastriOfc pic.twitter.com/LUek9yJYav
— BCCI (@BCCI) August 1, 2017
Sri Lanka: Dinesh Chandimal, Angelo Mathews, Upul Tharanga, Dimuth Karunaratne, Niroshan Dickwella, Kusal Mendis, Dhananjaya de Silva, Danushka Gunathilaka, Lahiru Kumara, Vishwa Fernando, Nuwan Pradeep, Rangana Herath, Dilruwan Perera, Malinda Pushpakumara, Lakshan Sandakan, Lahiru Thirimanne
