1st test match between India A and Sri Lanka A ends in favor of team India as they win by an innings and 205 runs at Belagavi.
After winning the toss Indian captain Priyank Panchal opted to bat first. Both openers started of well, Captain Priyank Panchal scored 160 runs while other opener Abhimanyu Easwaran hits a double ton, he scored 233 runs in 321 balls, later Anmolpreet Singh(116) and Siddhesh Lad’s(76) innings powered India to a huge total of 622 with the loss of only 5 wickets.
No one did well with the ball for Sri Lanka as Vishwa Fernando is the highest wicket taker for Sri Lanka who took only 2 wickets.
Sri Lanka came to bat towards the end of day 2 but they were unable to settle as after the end of day 2 they 83 with the loss of 4 wickets. On Day 3 Niroshan Dickwella scored 103 runs but that was enough to save them from follow on as Sri Lanka got all out for 232. In the 2nd inning they had a lots of works to do but they were unable to do that Sri Lanka all out for only 185 runs, no one did well with the bat except for Samarawickrama and captain Priyanjan who scored a decent 48 and 39 runs respectively.
If Abhimanyu Easwaran is a superstar with the bat then Rahul Chahar is a superstar with the ball as he took a total of 8 wickets in the match, 4 in first inning and another 4 in the 2nd inning.
These 2 teams will meet once again on 31st of May for the 2nd test and the last 4 day test match in Hubli.