{"id":869225,"date":"2026-08-26T16:24:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/869225\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T16:24:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:24:28","slug":"india-vs-sri-lanka-2nd-test-updates-play-called-off-due-to-rain-sl-229-6-at-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/869225\/","title":{"rendered":"India vs Sri Lanka 2nd Test UPDATES: Play called off due to rain; SL 229\/6 at close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SL 229-6 (72.4 ovs) f\/o &amp; 290 vs India 503-9 | <a href=\"https:\/\/imsports.rediff.com\/score\/in_asa_10859493.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SCORECARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rain has become quite heavy, forcing the umpires to call off play early on the fourth day.<\/p>\n<p>Following on, Sri Lanka recovered to 229\/6 in 72.4 overs, leading by 16 runs as the match goes into the fifth and final day in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Sri Lanka were bowled out for 290 in reply to India&#8217;s 503\/9 declared.<\/p>\n<p>India will be hoping that the weather improves on Day 5 on Wednesday as they push for victory and also a 2-0 series triumph.<\/p>\n<p>Suthar was the top wicket-taker for India in the second innings, with 2\/81 while the other four bowlers bagged one wicket each.<\/p>\n<p>Pasindu Sooriyabandara lead Sri Lanka&#8217;s superb fightback with the bat, hitting a fluent 92 from 173 balls with 10 fours and a six.<\/p>\n<p>He missed out on a century for the second time in the match, stumped off Suthar after recklessly stepping down the track.<\/p>\n<p>Mendis, who stroked 55, also failed to carry on throwing his wicket attempting a rash pull shot off Prasidh.<\/p>\n<p>The two batters were instrumental in Sri Lanka&#8217;s recovery courtesy of their 115-run partnership for the third wicket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SL 229-6 (72.4 ovs) f\/o &amp; 290 vs India 503-9 | SCORECARD The rain has become quite heavy,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,62466,1347,356931,283947,6462,357800,356930,85],"class_list":["post-869225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}