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India claims 100th Test win

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TROPHIES TO CHERISH: Sreesanth and Pragyan Ojha leave the field after India’s victory over Sri Lanka in Kanpur on Friday. The home team won the second Test by an innings and 144 runs.

Chennai: India earned its 100th Test victory, comprehensively beating Sri Lanka by an innings and 144 runs in the second Test at Kanpur on Friday.

The margin of victory was India’s third-biggest in 432 Tests. India has won 100, lost 136, drawn 195 and tied one.

Four down for 57 and trailing India by 356 runs at the start of day four, Sri Lanka’s second innings ended an hour after lunch when debutant left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha dismissed Chanaka Welegedara.

Middle-order batsman Thilan Samaraweera remained unbeaten on 78. Samaraweera and Ajantha Mendis provided stubborn but ultimately futile resistance with a ninth-wicket partnership of 73.

Sreesanth, making a comeback to international cricket after a 19-month hiatus, was declared Man of the Match. The Kerala seamer’s five-wicket haul in Sri Lanka’s first innings was pivotal, helping India dismiss the visitor for 229 and enforce the follow-on.

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