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IND vs SL: Second day's play ended, Devdutt Padikkal played an inning of 167 runs, Rahul-Jurel's fifty
Samira Vishwas | August 16, 2026 10:24 PM CST

IND vs SL: The first Test match between India and Sri Lanka is being played at the Galle International Stadium from 15th August. Team India is batting first after winning the toss. Today the play of the second day of the match has ended. Rain caused a lot of disruption in the play on the second day. By the end of the second day's play, the Indian team had scored 460 runs for 9 wickets in its first innings. Kuldeep Yadav and Prasidh Krishna are unbeaten. Batting at number 3 for Team India, Devdutt Padikkal played an excellent century innings of 167 runs. While KL Rahul scored 82 runs and Dhruv Jurel scored 51 runs.

There was a century partnership between Devdutt Padikkal and KL Rahul

In the Galle Test against Sri Lanka, Indian captain Shubman Gill won the toss and decided to bat first. Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul came to open for India. Both of them gave a good start to the team, but could not make a big partnership. Jaiswal was run out after scoring 32 runs. After this, a good partnership was going on between KL Rahul and Devdutt Padikkal, but due to cramps, Rahul retired hurt on the first day and returned to the pavilion.

After this Shubman Gill came out to bat. However, Gill could not do anything special and was out after scoring only 16 runs. By the end of the first day of the match, Team India had scored 288 runs for 2 wickets. Devdutt Padikkal had scored a brilliant century on the first day.

First and second session washed out due to rain

Rain caused a lot of disturbance on the second day of this match. The first and second sessions of the second day were almost completely washed out due to rain. The match started again after around 2:35 pm and Team India started playing with a lead of 288 runs on the second day of the match. Padikkal and Pant were present at the crease. However, some time after the start of the game, Rishabh Pant lost his wicket. Pant was out after scoring 39 runs. After this, KL Rahul came back to bat and was out after scoring 82 runs.

Devdutt Padikkal played an excellent inning of 167 runs.

After this Devdutt Padikkal was out after playing an excellent innings. He played an innings of 167 runs with the help of 15 fours and one six. After this, Jadeja also came out to bat after scoring 13 runs. Then Dhruv Jurel and Manav Suthar took over the innings of Team India and scored runs rapidly. There was a half-century partnership between the two for the sixth wicket, but then Jurel was out after scoring 51 runs.

Excellent bowling by Prabhat Jayasuriya and Keshara Nuvanta on the second day.

After this Mohammad Siraj was out after scoring 11 runs. While Manav Suthar scored 24 runs. By the end of the second day's play, India had scored 460 runs for 9 wickets. Kuldeep Yadav is unbeaten on 12 runs on 13 balls and fast bowler Prasidh Krishna is unbeaten on 1 run. For Sri Lanka, their star spinner Prabhat Jayasuriya has taken 4 wickets so far. While Keshara Nuvanta took 3 wickets.


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