2nd Test: India pursue Sri Lanka sweep in pink ball Test

Rohit Sharma eyes a clean sweep of Sri Lanka in the second Test starting Saturday. The hosts thrashed Sri Lanka inside three days in Mohali to lead the two-match series 1-0 and the visitors need to quickly get their act together under the lights in Bengaluru. The world's top-ranked all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja hit an unbeaten 175 and took nine wickets to stand out in Rohit's first Test since replacing Virat Kohli as captain in all formats earlier this year.

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There is an air of excitement and expectancy at the M Chinnaswamy stadium. The venue is being decked up to host its maiden day-night Test match, starting this weekend. The second Test between India and Sri Lanka will be the third D/N Test in India since Kolkata hosted the maiden contest in November

"Rohit, we all know how tactically strong he is and how good he is. But I saw a lot of human elements in the way he led the side," off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin said this week. "He was looking out for anyone in the team, how everyone would feel, how everyone's confidence is important for the engine room to function." Rohit said the hosts put up a "near-perfect" performance. India were the last of the big Test teams to play a five-day game under lights, seeing off Bangladesh in 2019 in just over two days in Kolkata. But at the Adelaide Oval in December 2020 Australia skittled the Kohli-led side for 36, India's lowest Test total. The team got back to winning ways in a floodlit Test when they thrashed England in two days at the world's biggest cricket stadium in Ahmedabad in February last year India will be expected to beat Sri Lanka again but Ashwin warned that day-night Tests can be