Second test match since day one was in the hand of team India as there bowler all out Sri Lanka in the first day. Indian skipper Virat who score magnificent knock of 213 runs. In the Indian innings their was three centurion and one Double century which help team India to post 610 runs for loss of six wickets. All it took in the end for India was little over three hours including the lunch break to break the monkey’s back of Sri Lankan batsmen. R Ashwin played the crucial role in taking four wickets on the fourth day of the second Test to reach 300 Test wickets as Sri Lanka threw things away.

Just a little after the lunch break, India had equalled their highest winning margin in Test cricket by beating Sri Lanka by an innings and 239 runs in Nagpur. Ashwin played the main role with other bowlers – Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav and Ravindra Jadeja all picking up two wickets each. Dinesh Chandimal was the only batsman to offer any challenge or stood up to the Indian bowling and was rewarded with a personal milestone (fifty) 57. However, others faltered and threw away their wickets to help India to a simple victory and registered huge victory by an innings and 239 runs in the second test match.