{"id":1166498,"date":"2026-08-24T11:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1166498\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T11:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:31:14","slug":"2nd-test-sri-lanka-vs-india-updates-india-declare-on-503-9-jurel-115-not-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1166498\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd Test Sri Lanka Vs India UPDATES: India declare on 503\/9; Jurel 115 not out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>India 367-6 (100 Ovs) vs Sri Lanka | <a href=\"https:\/\/imsports.rediff.com\/score\/in_asa_10859491.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SCORECARD<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Fernando continues the short ball tactics to Pant, who misses the pull shot this time as the bouncer goes down the leg side.<\/p>\n<p>However, he gets on top of the bounce to pull the next to deep fine leg for one.<\/p>\n<p>Jurel plays a cracking pull shot, smashing it square for a four to raise the 50-run stand for the seventh wicket from just 64 balls.<\/p>\n<p>The pacer tries the yorker as Jurel adjusts well, clipping it off his pads for one.<\/p>\n<p>India will be keen to get above 400, knowing the previous record at SSC, Colombo, with teams win all six games after posting 400-plus totals.<\/p>\n<p>Another short ball which doesn&#8217;t rise much as Pant easily taps it on the leg side.<\/p>\n<p>In the next over, Jurel uses his feet to flick Nuwantha over midwicket for a four, doing well to adjust to the spin. He shows some solid defence to block the rest of the over.<\/p>\n<p>Spin from both ends as Prabath Jayasuriya comes into the attack. Pant immediately targets the spinner, playing the reverse sweep for a single and Jurel hits the next ball over the covers for another run.<\/p>\n<p>Pant uses his feet to swing the spinner over midwicket for just a single and Jurel keeps out the rest of the over.<\/p>\n<p>India are 367\/6 in 100 overs with Pant on 33 and Jurel on 37, with the duo having added 64 runs for the seventh wicket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India 367-6 (100 Ovs) vs Sri Lanka | SCORECARD Fernando continues the short ball tactics to Pant, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1032823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,80829,1501,284344,121352,17128,284960,284343,79,16,15],"class_list":["post-1166498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-indian-cricket-news","tag-latest-news","tag-live-commentary","tag-live-cricket-scores","tag-live-updates","tag-match-scores","tag-rediff","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1032823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}