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00:00It's the Royal Stag Mega Cricket Cup, Sri Lanka up against India, three test series from
00:26Gaul International Stadium beautiful part of Sri Lanka for this first with ball in hand set to go
00:38and straight away it'll be a boundary just leaning forward
00:46Virat Kohli gets a full toss and he is off the mark with a boundary
00:56nicely driven and that will be a boundary beautiful timing just a push really didn't
01:06over hit it but he just maneuvered it so beautifully with that back face open
01:14a great illustration of how he clears that back leg gets the back leg a long way towards the leg
01:19stump accesses the offside
01:26that's lovely timing again the placement from virat Kohli brings about another boundary
01:40more runs oh my goodness that's gone for four for a moment i thought he had it covered
01:44the timing using the pace of the ball and the timing was exquisite
01:53lyra kumara moved quickly but the timing was brilliant
01:58just a very small flick of the wrists that too came very close to the middle of the bat
02:04for the moment though we just run across and complete his first half century in eight innings
02:15but he's uh he's planted the seeds for something much bigger
02:21thousand runs as captain for Kohli in matches outside india is the quickest
02:25to get there he's got there in 68 balls
02:39and i think uh rangana ira well he's injured his bowling hand trying to stop that drive from
02:47uh was really powerfully struck by virat Kohli
02:53you can pick it up here just bounced
02:58just short of him maybe bounced up into that left hand
03:03well that doesn't look good it's the bowling hand as well
03:06spinning finger
03:16it's gone fine it's gone fine enough as well a little bit of footwork not good enough
03:22under partnership comes up with another boundary to virat Kohli
03:26he played it very late he knew where the fielders were playing it very late quite deliberately opening
03:36the face of the bat and running it down to third man and nope there's no chance of a
03:43oh that six just a drop kick
03:46nicely played good use of the feet
04:00so well controlled
04:0717th test match 100 for virat Kohli and second against sri lanka and his 10th as skipper of india
04:16is
04:18244.3 and they are about to walk off jenky rahani and virat Kohli
04:26wandering off the ground the declaration has come at 549 so that means 550 exactly
04:33well sri lanka
04:35600 runs on the board for india first up
04:39shikha darwan is brilliant with his 190 sri lanka responding with 291
04:45never going to be enough india piled on the runs in that second innings with 240 for three
04:51sri lanka 245 in their second innings india take their biggest win in sri lanka by run margin
04:58they win by 304 runs
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