India eye victory after Sangakkara falls for 18

India eye victory after Sangakkara falls for 18

COLOMBO: Kumar Sangakkara, the fifth-most elevated run-scorer in Test history, was rejected for 18 in his last worldwide innings Sunday to leave Sri Lanka in a bad position in the second Test against India. 

The hosts, set an extreme triumph focus of 413, drooped to 33-2 after Sangakkara's rejection before shutting the fourth day's play at 72-2 at Colombo's P. Sara Oval.

Opener Dimuth Karunaratne was on 25 and captain Angelo Mathews was on 23. Sri Lanka start the last day's play on Monday requiring 341 more to win with eight wickets close by.

India, hoping to level the three-match arrangement in the wake of losing the first Test in Galle, announced their second innings at 325-8 in the post-tea session after Ajinkya Rahane top-scored with 126.

It exited the hosts confronting a bit less that four sessions to accomplish the colossal target or bat out for a draw on a moderate, wearing pitch that ought to support India's spinners.

The most noteworthy fruitful fourth-innings run pursue at the venue is 352-9 by the hosts against South Africa in 2006.

Sangakkara did not need to hold up long to bat after Sri Lanka lost opener Kaushal Silva in the third over, tapping a full hurl from Ravichandran Ashwin to the short mid-wicket defender.

A full place of around 7,000 home fans cheered warmly as Sangakkara was invited to the wrinkle by two watchmen of honor - one shaped by youthful youngsters with raised bats close to the limit and another by Indian defenders.

He hit three limits yet tumbled to Ashwin for the fourth time in the same number of innings in the arrangement when he edged a catch to Murali Vijay off the eighteenth ball he confronted.

Sangakkara completed with 12,400 keeps running from 134 Tests at a normal of 57.40. He scored 38 centuries including a best of 319 against Bangladesh in Chittagong a year ago.

The Sri Lankan incredible takes after Sachin Tendulkar of India, Ricky Ponting of Australia, Jacques Kallis of South Africa and Rahul Dravid of India in the unequaled rundown of driving Test scorers.

Rahane tied down the Indian innings before being released in the blink of an eye before tea for 126, his fourth Test century that was studded with 10 limits.

Rahane put on 140 for the second wicket with Vijay (82) and 85 for the fourth with his Mumbai colleague Rohit Sharma (34).