00:12This is where we are then for the start of day three, Sri Lanka versus India.
00:17A mountain to climb for Sri Lanka, but mountains have been climbed before.
00:24Yeah, it was the overnight not-out batsman just a couple of hours ago.
00:34Can't give it out, not saying it was a bad one at all.
00:37You couldn't give it out because it was a long way down, but...
00:42Oh! Has he put it down?
00:47It seemed to go straight to him.
00:52Catch it! Catch it!
00:54Right, they decided that is the approach against Ravinder Jadeja.
00:58They got a few runs with that in the first innings.
01:0152 for 1 after 12 overs.
01:03It's from nondescripts as well.
01:06Right, it was close enough to be able to play that shot.
01:08And I think that's the way they've decided.
01:11If it's close enough, if you can reach close enough to the pitch of the ball, let's go and play
01:14it.
01:17But he's brave, isn't he?
01:19A couple of miss-hits, not going exactly where he wanted, but he's got a plan and he's going to
01:24stick with it.
01:27Sometimes, I think on a ground like this, you've just got to assume that being beaten is almost par.
01:33So you never...
01:34He's a man very square at point.
01:39Excellent shot! Excellent shot!
01:41What a response!
01:43That will get Jadeja thinking differently.
01:46Pitched up on the leg stump.
01:47And the sweep shot comes out.
01:51Yes.
01:53Pitched on the leg stump.
01:55Jadeja trying to overcompensate for the deliverance which Mendes has been playing and missing around the off stump.
02:00Going on to the leg stump.
02:02And this is Mendes' response.
02:05Rolling the wrist.
02:08As you say, overcompensate.
02:10No runs.
02:11Should be a boundary again.
02:13Runs leaking in this over, not that it matters too much.
02:18They've got 16 runs.
02:22Of course, Jadeja's mindset is he's getting turned from around the off stump.
02:26So it's searching for turn from around the leg stump.
02:30Once again, I think, going on the leg stump and getting a...
02:33And it was attack.
02:34It was always attack.
02:37Oh wow, there's a top edge there.
02:40Straight over the keep.
02:41It'll bring about a half century.
02:42Not in his best fashion, but it's a half century that comes up nonetheless.
02:51100 up for the Sri Lankans for the loss of one wicket.
02:55He prefers, he likes that sweep shotting.
02:58It's a go-to shot even though...
03:01The ball is turning square and he's hitting against the spin.
03:0544 runs in boundaries.
03:14Nice to be driven.
03:16Yes, it will beat the fielder.
03:19Hitting it with the turn.
03:20And somewhat on the out.
03:23Jadeja tends to push it a little bit quicker.
03:25So I loved him to play that shot.
03:31It's a lovely extension.
03:37Extension of the hands.
03:39Right out through the ball.
03:42Machadov, great chase for a guy.
03:44It's just bowled a good spell.
03:47Then the sweep shot would have been fraught even more with danger.
03:52Oh, he's played that through mid-wicket.
03:53He likes that shot.
03:55Gee, how many times he's played it.
03:591-6-6 for one.
04:02That was fired in.
04:04And almost yoked himself.
04:05But Cus Almendis, he's seeing that ball really, really well.
04:09Because he was able to get down to it.
04:11And also get it into the gap.
04:18Sweeps it away.
04:19And that will be test match century number three for Cus Almendis.
04:24A very important one in the context of this game.
04:28Brilliantly played.
04:30Absolutely brilliant innings, this from Cus Almendis.
04:34He was waiting for that.
04:36He saw that the fielder was more towards wide mid-on.
04:39Not towards square leg.
04:41This time, he played it squareer.
04:45What a shot.
04:47That has been the shot that has dominated his innings.
04:52And you can see, this time he's hit it squareer.
04:54He hit it very, very well.
04:57Magnificent innings, this from Cus Almendis.
04:59Thank you guys.
05:00Good on.
05:00Good on.
05:02Good on.
05:02Good on.
05:03Good on.
05:18You
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