Live Report - India vs Sri Lanka, 1st Test, 2nd day

And how well have India bowled, to prise out a fifth of the 20 wickets they need to win this Test match. India seldom get the credit they deserve for building such a formidable record at home, and today was another example of the hard toil their bowlers often have to go through to earn their successes. Sri Lanka end the day 108 for 4, trailing by a massive 466 runs. They batted pretty well for most part, I thought, apart from that ill-judged sweep from Dhananjaya de Silva, but India's bowlers kept asking questions and wearing them down.

Before that, the day was all about Ravindra Jadeja, who made his second Test hundred and extended that to an unbeaten 175 before India declared. Here's what he said to the broadcasters at the end of the day's play:

"Today I just stayed calm and batted normally. Ashwin and I have enjoyed batting with each other. The pitch is beginning to turn and should turn more. Balls are keeping low too so we have to bowl at the wicket."

Both Ashwin and Jadeja had bowled from the same end so far, and both were getting a lot of turn from a wide-ish line outside the left-handers' off stump. Jadeja switches ends now, and continues to get big turn out of the rough. He rips one into Charith Asalanka to beat the inside edge of his forward defensive, and the big lbw appeal that follows is successful, but a review from the batter suggests the ball was turning too much and missing leg stump. Still, it shows the challenge ahead of Sri Lanka with the ball turning from both ends.

Sri Lanka are 108 for 4.

Batters are advised not to sweep from the line of the stumps, but Dhananjaya de Silva has done just that. Ashwin returns for a new spell, and his first ball is an offbreak that lands quite full and pitches just outside off stump. Apart from the line, the ball is also too full to sweep, and the ball sneaks under de Silva's bat to strike his pad right in front of off and middle stumps. It's one of the plumber lbws you'll see, and the batter doesn't bother reviewing. Sri Lanka are 103 for 4.

Angelo Mathews is a noted shuffler across his stumps, and Bumrah has exploited the vulnerability of that technique with a lovely delivery. Straightens from a superb length, and the shuffling Mathews ends up trapped in his crease and squared up, playing inside the line with the ball missing his outside edge and striking his back pad. It's a tight one, given out on the field, and returning two umpire's call verdicts - it's struck him just in line with off stump, and ball-tracking predicts it would have clipped the very top of off stump - after Mathews reviews.

Sri Lanka are 96 for 3 with another half hour to see out today.

An absolute peach from Bumrah to sneak through Pathum Nissanka's defences. A slower offcutter that draws Nissanka's bat a long way in front of his body to drive; the lack of pace creates the big gap between bat and pad, and the turn finds a way into that gap. It would have been a fine addition to Bumrah's list of batters made to look utterly foolish, except for one thing - he overstepped.

Sri Lanka are 81 for 2, shortly after the day's final drinks break.

Ashwin gives way to Jadeja after a 10-over spell, and what had been noticeable through those 10 overs was that he was getting a lot more turn when he was landing the ball quite a bit outside the left-handers' off stump. Jadeja comes on from the same end, and shows how dangerous his left-arm spin is from that sort of line, bringing the stumps into play. Two balls produce ripping turn and two massive lbw appeals, Karunaratne beaten while sweeping and then while looking to defend after shuffling across his stumps. India decide not to review the first not-out decision, imagining the impact to be outside the line of off stump, but it was actually just inside (though we don't know if the ball may have spun past leg stump). The next one is given out, and Karunaratne's only hope was for the impact to be outside off. Umpire's call was the verdict of DRS, and he has to walk back for 28. Sri Lanka 59 for 2.

A superb over from Shami, highlighting his quality on a pitch that doesn't have a whole lot of help in it for him. He goes round the wicket to Karunaratne with two short midwickets and a short leg, and he makes Karunaratne worry about his stumps, his pads and his inside edge with his skiddy pace and a bit of inward movement off the deck. In between there's a quick short ball as well, slightly misdirected down the leg side but giving Karunaratne something else to think about anyway. He survives the over, but this contest is only just heating up.

Ashwin had built a lot of pressure on Lahiru Thirimanne, who had faced 36 balls from him as compared to Dimuth Karunaratne's 7. He'd varied his pace beautifully, and gone past the edge with sharp turn on a couple of occasions. Then, ball 37 to Thirimanne is classic Ashwin vs left-hander. Angling in from around the wicket, bringing the batter forward to defend, and turning a little less than expected to slide past the inside edge and strike his pad in line with off stump. Thirimanne reviews, only for Hawkeye to show three reds, ball crashing into middle stump, and send him on his way. With that wicket, Sri Lanka are 48 for 1.

India have used four bowlers inside the first 10 overs, and they've tried quite a few things already, including Jasprit Bumrah bowling with two short midwickets to Dimuth Karunaratne, but so far, he and Lahiru Thirimanne have looked quite comfortable in the middle, and Sri Lanka are 24 for 0.

Two offspinners are on in tandem now, though, and R Ashwin is just beginning to settle into his spell, trying various speeds and trajectories to see what might work on this surface. This will be a fascinating to watch.

Well, well. Just when you might have wondered if Jadeja would add a Test double-ton to his two first-class triples, Rohit Sharma has declared. India finish on 574 for 8, and Jadeja walks off with an unbeaten 175. An innings of cool, controlled shifting of gears, and complete ease against Sri Lanka's bowling. Tea has been called on the stroke of the declaration.

Shami pushes a single into the off side to bring up his century stand with Jadeja, but he's hit on the back by the throw from the fielder just as he's completing his run. He gets a bit of attention from the physio, but he's okay to continue.

It's reached that stage of the innings where Sri Lanka have gone a little ragged on the field. There have been plenty of loose balls and misfields, and at one point Vishwa Fernando fumbled the ball and allowed Shami to escape when both batters were stranded at the same end.

A towering six over long-off off Dhananjaya de Silva brings up both Jadeja's 150 and his 50 partnership with Shami, who is yet to get off the mark. India are 525 for 8.

Jadeja has begun playing his shots after the dismissal of Jayant, and has scored 36 off 27 balls in that time. Now he's gone after Lasith Embuldeniya, stepping out to hit him for a straight six and then sweeping him for successive fours, along the way moving India's total past 500.

At the other end, Mohammed Shami is scoreless after facing 10 balls, having looked to do nothing but defend. The vast possibilities of this sport.

Jayant Yadav, looking to defend off the front foot, nicks to first slip, undone by the the left-arm-over angle. He becomes the first India batter to fall short of a double-digit score. India are 471 for 8.

Century No. 2 in Test cricket for arguably the world's best allrounder. Like so many of his innings over the last 3-4 years, this one has been characterised by the solidity of his defence, and by the complete trust he has shown in his own game. It's quite staggering that he's lifted both his white-ball hitting and his red-ball crease-occupying to new heights at the same time, and that he's been able to switch so seamlessly from one to the other.

Lunch arrives an over after Jadeja's milestone. India are 468 for 7, having lost just the one wicket in the morning while adding 111 runs to their total.

He had pulled the previous ball wide of mid-on for four. Then Suranga Lakmal went round the wicket and went short again, this time getting the ball to climb more steeply at Ashwin. He took on the pull again, and only managed a top-edge to the keeper. India are 462 for 7, and Jadeja is batting on 99.

It's just taken him 67 balls, and the innings may have taken you back to his early years in Test cricket, when he would begin timing the ball like a dream from the moment he walked in, and score his runs at a rapid clip. There have been plenty of gorgeous drives through the off side and down the ground, and he's looked entirely untroubled by any of Sri Lanka's bowlers. Most of India's batters have exhibited a great degree of comfort on this surface, and Ashwin has managed the best control percentage (92) of all of them.

Each batter in India's top eight has passed 25 in this innings. It's only the fourth time that's happened in Test cricket.

Is this an unimaginably flat road, then? Or has Sri Lanka's attack simply lacked the cutting edge to take wickets on this surface? We'll only really find out when India bowl, but from India's perspective, they'll want to keep batting for as long as possible so there's at least some wear and tear to work with before they begin bowling.

Ashwin has just driven Vishwa Fernando effortlessly to the long-off boundary, and India are 423 for 6.

Lower-order batting has been a widely discussed problem area for India when they go outside Asia, but at home, it's a massive strength because of the sheer number of spin-bowling allrounders they have. Since the start of 2016, India have the best average partnership of any team at home for the seventh wicket or lower.

Jadeja and R Ashwin have just brought up their half-century stand, and are moving India ever closer to 400. They still have Jayant Yadav, who has a Test century to his name, to come. And this is a team that is missing Washington Sundar and Axar Patel through injury.

India are now 382 for 6.

The man Warne called a rockstar 14 years ago has just brought up his 18th Test fifty. He was underappreciated and even derided for years and years, but now Ravindra Jadeja is an undisputedly world-class allrounder across formats. Warne clearly knew potential when he saw it. Jadeja began day two on 45, and got to the milestone with a lovely back-foot punch off Suranga Lakmal in the second over of the day.