The first Test between India and Sri Lanka at the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) IS Bindra Stadium in Mohali was lopsided. The hosts took a 1-0 lead in the two-Test series after winning by an innings and 222 runs. Ravindra Jadeja was named Player of the Match after hitting 175 runs and taking nine wickets in the game.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>All-rounder Axar Patel has returned to the group ahead of the final Test, which begins on Saturday at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru and will be a day-night affair.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Axar Patel has been recalled to India\u2019s team for the second Test against Sri Lanka . Kuldeep Yadav, a left-arm wristspinner, has been removed from the team and has been replaced by the left-arm orthodox spinner.<\/p>\n In the first Test, Kuldeep was not used because India choose Jayant Yadav as their third spinner. Jayant was bowled out in both innings, as his spin partners R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja took 15 wickets between them.<\/p>\n Kuldeep Yadav last played for India in a Test match in February 2021. The left-arm spinner has appeared in seven Test matches for India, taking 26 wickets at a strike rate of 23.85. In Test cricket, Kuldeep has had two five-wicket hauls.<\/p>\n In order to tie the two-match rubber, Sri Lanka must win the second Test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Axar had been rehabilitating from a shin ailment that had forced him to miss the South Africa trip and the West India T20 series. He has also lately tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":26633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1439,407],"class_list":["post-3563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-axar-patel","tag-indian-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}