India v/s Sri Lanka | 2nd Test Day 4: Hosts win by an innings and 239 runs in Nagpur

India beat Sri Lanka by an innings and 239 runs, equalling the national record,  in the second test in Nagpur on Monday.

Sri Lanka lost nine wickets on day four as they suffered another second innings collapse. Indian bowlers went through Sri Lanka's top and middle order to give the hosts an innings victory in the second test and a 1-0 lead in the three-match series on Monday.

India had declared their second innings on 610 for six on the third day for a commanding lead of 405. Virat Kohli smashed 213 while Rohit Sharma, Cheteshwar Pujara and Murali Vijay hit centuries a toothless Sri Lankan attack. 

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Sri Lanka has lost Sadeera Samarawickrama without scoring on the second ball from Ishant Sharma in their second innings to reach 21-1 at stumps. 

The tourists lost seven wickets in an extended morning session to be reeling on 145-8 at lunch, still 260 runs behind and staring at a morale-sapping defeat inside four days.

Captain Dinesh Chandimal was unbeaten on 53 after a defiant knock and had Suranga Lakmal on 19 for company, the duo ensuring India were not able to wrap up things by lunch in Nagpur.

India defeated the islanders by a 9-0 margin across formats earlier this year and after the draw in the rain-affected opening test in Kolkata, things were back to normal for the world's top-ranked test side.

After resuming on 21-1, Sri Lanka kept India's bowlers at bay for six overs before Dimuth Karunaratne was out on 18 to a freakish dismissal off left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja.

The left-handed batsman flicked Jadeja to Murali Vijay at short leg who somehow managed to cling to the ball after it hit his body.

Lahiru Thirimanne then played an irresponsible shot to a wide delivery from paceman Umesh Yadav to be caught at point for 23 in a further blow to Sri Lanka's chances of resisting India.

Angelo Mathews also did not last long, handing Jadeja his second wicket while wicketkeeper Niroshan Dickewell was out to paceman Ishant Sharma.

Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin then got in on the act, dismissing Niroshan Dickwella, Dasun Shanaka and Rangana Herath cheaply.

Dinesh Chandimal and Suranga Lakmal then added 58 runs for the ninth wicket to delay the inevitable. Umesh Yadav earned his second wicket to send back Chandimal (61).

Ashwin then unleashed another carrom ball to get Gamage and become the fastest bowler in Test history to 300 Test wickets.

Ashwin overtook former Australian fast bowler Dennis Lillee who took 56 matches to reach 300 wickets while the 31-year-old Ashwin was playing his 54th match.

Indian batsmen dominate

On Saturday, world's top-ranked test side did not lost a wicket in the first two sessions on Saturday with Murali Vijay and Cheteshwar Pujara both getting hundreds to put the bowlers to the sword. Kohli and Pujara extended Sri Lanka's misery on the third morning with their third-wicket stand of 183.

Sri Lanka barely managed to trouble Kohli and Pujara as the duo picked up singles and twos at will, mixing them with occasional boundaries after resuming the day on 312-2. India lost Pujara for 143 shortly before lunch when all-rounder Dasun Shanaka breached the right-hander's defence to rattle the stumps.

Sri Lanka would have hoped for a better second session after Perera dismissed Ajinkya Rahane for two shortly after lunch but Kohli and Rohit denied them with another partnership of 173. Kohli flicked Suranga Lakmal for a single to get back-to-back hundreds in the series after his unbeaten century in the second innings of the drawn first test in Kolkata.

It was the 10th hundred in 2017 across formats for India's batting mainstay who hit a six over the long-on fielder against off-spinner Dilruwan Perera to get past 150 and then got a single off the same bowler to reach his double hundred.

The 29-year-old hit 17 fours and two sixes in his knock before holing out in the deep while trying to attempt another six off Perera. Rohit, whose previous test was in October last year against New Zealand, used his opportunity well to compile his third test hundred and Kohli declared India's innings closed immediately after the right-hander got past three figures. Perera took three wickets for the touring side but also conceded 202 runs.