LIVE: That's it from Kolkata

Will India push for a result on Day 5?

India vs Sri Lanka, 1st Test, Day 5, live scorecard

Kolkata Test ends in draw.

Bad light rescues Sri Lanka. India will be disappointed after dominating the the last two days and to be specific, the final session of the Test match. 

Bhuvi sends Perera's off stump for a spin

RANGANA HERATH is seen walking out to the middle. Sri Lanka's dressing room looks concerned as the visibility seems to be a concern for them.

India need four more

OUT! LBW! The umpire's call stays! The Indians are pumped up as they have finally seen the back of Dickwella. Kumar comes round the wicket and bowls it on a length around off. Dickwella looks to flick but misses and wears it on the front pad. The Indians put in a celebratory appeal which is agreed by the umpire. Dickwella chooses for the DRS. It shows that the ball would have clipped the top of off stump. The on-field call stays though the Lankans retain their review. Sri Lanka 6 down.

Shami sends Chandimal packing

Timber! The Eden Garden erupts. Shami is ecstatic and why not! It is a peach of a delivery to end the 47-run stand that came in 53 balls. Shami hurls a fuller delivery around off, it swings in even before pitching and then goes on with the angle. Chandimal looks to flick it away but gets a faint inside edge owing to the movement. Ends up shattering the stumps. If I'm good at reading expressions, the Lankan skipper's look suggests as if his new car has been banged by another from nowhere. Half the Lankan side back in the hut.

OUT! LBW! Surprise, Surprise! Hard to say how that has been reversed. But Hawk Eye is showing it is plumb. It was a length ball, around off and Mathews was in the air, when he was trying to play the flick shot. One could see the middle and off stumps and to the naked eye, it seemed like it will miss leg stump. Accordingly the umpire shook his head and Kohli asked his keeper before signalling for the review. And lo! Hawk Eye shows it to be hitting leg! Kohli is pumped up while the Indian dressing room is all smiles! 6 wickets needed, 35.2 overs remaining!

HOWZZAT? Is Mathews a goner? India want a review. Height could be the factor.

NOTE: The Indian fielders are sprinting in between overs to make sure minimal time is lost which will enable them to bowl maximum overs. Smart move, particularly when the Shadows have already to started to set in Eden Gardens.

Karunaratne plays on

What are the Sri Lankan batsmen doing? After Sadeera, now Karunaratne chops onto his stumps. Shami the man and India are on top, is there a possibility of victory? SL: 2/2

Bhuvi strikes in the first over

BOWLED! What a start for India, this Test is match still alive. Bhuvneshwar knocks over Sadeera Samarawickrama for a duck. That was a nothing short really, he drags a delivery which was well outside the off stump. The Indians are ecstatic. SL: 0/1 

The Sri Lankan openers need to bat out the new ball in order to deny India a foot in the door of victory.

India decalre with a 230-run

India have declared with a lead of 230! That was quite obvious, they were waiting for the captain to get to his century and now Sri Lanka need 231 runs to win, more importantly they have to bat out 46 overs but with the fading light there is a possibility of only 30 overs being bowled. 

Test century No. 18, international century No. 50

Most international centuries for India
Sachin Tendulkar: 100 (51 in Tests + 49 in ODIs)
VIRAT KOHLI*: 5⃣0⃣ (18 in Tests + 32 in ODIs)
Rahul Dravid: 48 (36 in Tests + 12 in ODIs) pic.twitter.com/3gUDCboM0K

— Wah Cricket (@ABPCricketHindi) November 20, 2017

 

What a man, what a player! The Eden crowd rises for Virat Kohli. The Indian captain has raced to his 18th Test ton and in what style. He dances down the track to Sri Lanka's best bowler - Lakmal and thrashes him over covers for a six and jumps in joy.

Gamage strikes

Bhuvneshwar perishes in quest of quick runs, Gamage gets him with a short delivery. India's approach suggests the declaration is just around corner. A 200-run lead should be enough to put them in safety. 

Thank heavens for DRS

The huge cheers reverberating on the ground signals the decision - NOT OUT! Yes, Kohli survives. Yes, an inside edge is the savior. Lakmal spears this full around off and middle, Kohli looks to flick but misses and gets rapped on the pads. Looks plumb to the naked eye but the replays reveal the inside edge.

Saha is out!

The third umpire had a long and hard look at it and in the end he was convinced that Shanaka had something behind the line. That was marginal but Saha has to go for 5. Saha plays the cover drive uppishly and it's a good diving catch from Sadeera. Well, is a there possibilty of a result in this Test match? India are now seven down with a lead of 159 with a session and a half to go.

BOWLED!

Right through the gate! It's a fast bowler's dream to uproot the middle stump of a batsman and Dasun Shanaka has done exactly that. Fuller length delivery,comes in slightly to expose the gap between bat and pad of Ashwin and crashes onto the the middle stump. Sri Lanka contunue to chip away with wickets to strangle India. IND: 269/6

50 for Kohli

15th Test half century for the Indian captain and he gets there with a nice flick shot for four. It has been a controlled innings, mixed with caution and aggression. Will he get to his 50th interantional hundred? We'll have to wait and watch.

That's lunch on Day 5

Lakmal bowls a maiden and that will be lunch on the final day of the first Test. The session belonged to Sri Lanka again and it was Suranga Lakmal who bagged a six-wicket haul in a Test match for the first time in his career. His three wickets in the morning included KL Rahul (79), Cheteshwar Pujara (22) and Ajinkya Rahane (0). For India, captain Virat Kohli stood tall, battling his way to 41. India have taken a lead of 129 runs, far less then what they would have liked to force a result. The match is fast approaching a draw but the first hour after lunch will give a clearer picture.

Perera gets Jadeja

Well the Jadeja experiment did not go according to plan. The way Jadeja batted for his 41 ball 9, makes you wonder whether there was any plan behind his promotion in the first place itself. Perera's flatter one kicks off good length and the Indian all-rounder fails to control it. He went for the cut but ended up getting an outside edge to first slip, Thirimanne holds on. IND: 249/5

NOTE: No Ashiwn, it's Jadeja who has walked out to bat at No.4, a clear indication that India wants to force a result. An exciting hour of play may follow if Jadeja sticks around.

Rahane out for duck!

The decision stays as it is! Umpire's call it is. A length ball outside off, comes back in a long way, Rahane looks to work it to the leg side but misses and is hit on the pads. Lakmal appeals, it looks good enough and umpire Wilson raises his finger! Rahane walks over to Kohli and has a long chat. Eventually he decides to review and Hawk Eye shows it to be clipping the top of the stumps, which means umpire's call. India do not lose a review but they do lose Rahane for a blob. The match is opening up. India are effectively 91/4!

Pujara departs

That was a snorter from Lakmal. It just took off from good length, Pujara fends, the ball lobs up in the air and Perera takes a good diving catch behind the stumps. Pujara has to go for 22. IND: 213/2

Kohli is off the mark

A little streaky but four runs none the less and more importantly Virat Kohli is off the mark. He was on a pair. Lakmal slides down the leg side and Kohli gloves it, it's baffling that Dickwella did not go for the catch, the ball races away to the fine leg boundary for a four. 

Rahul falls

Gap between bat and pad and that's enough for Lakmal to knock down Rahul's middle stump. The talented Karnataka batsman misses out on yet another hundred after looking so good for his 79. But Sri Lanka won't complain, they have struck early on all 4 days in which they have bowled to India. IND: 192/2

Highest individual scores in 2nd innings after being dismissed "first ball of the match" in the first!
Roy Fredericks 80
L Rahul 79#IndvSL

— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) November 20, 2017

Day 5 begins

KL Rahul and (73*) and Cheteshwar Pujara (2*) are out in the middle. Rahul will look to break his half-cenutry deadlock and convert this into a hundred while Cheteshwar Pujara has a record of his own to deal with. He willl become only the third Indian to bat on all five days of a Test match.

Cheteshwar Pujara becomes the third Indian cricketer, after Ravi Shastri and ML Jaisimha to have batted on all 5 days of a Test match. pic.twitter.com/1ERgsi6p9r

— BCCI (@BCCI) November 20, 2017

Welcome to the live coverage of Day 5, still a lot to play for in this Test match even though odds are in favour of a draw. If India can manage to score quick runs and give Sri Lanka 40 overs to bat then who knows, anything can happen. But as of now, draw looks the lightly outcome of what has been a very good Test match despite rain playing the vilain's role.

Day 4 recap

If the first three days of the Test match belonged to the bowlers then the batsmen made a roaring comeback on Day 4 with Indian openers Shikhar Dhawan (94) and KL Rahul (73*) exposing the loopholes in the Sri Lankan bowling attack after the Eden track eased out under the baking sun. 

India covered Sri Lanka's  122-run lead first innings in no time and took a 49-run when they went to stumps at 171 for 1, brushing aside all jitters of the first innings.

Earlier, it was Sri Lanka's No. 7 Rangana Herath, who stretched not stretched the vistors' first innings to a healthy 122 by slamming a fluent 67. 

Indian seamers Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mohammed Shami picked up four wickets a piece giving good account of their ability to pick up wickets even when the pitch had stopped assisting seam bowlers.