Team india after handsome batting performance by their batsmen. Comebacks are usually tough, more so for Indian opening batsmen Murali Vijay, whose career has been hampered in 2017 owing to a wrist injury and the uncertainty over his position in the side. In his absence, KL Rahul has done everything right to present his case as India's first-choice opener with eight half-centuries in his last ten innings. With the South Africa tour just a month away, Murli Vijay who scored 128 runs, in the absence of Shikhar Dhawan, needed all the assurance he could to reclaim the opening slot.

Murali Vijay returned to the national side after eight months and looked as at ease as one could if they were playing regularly. After finding plenty of luck in the first session of day 2 of the second Test in Nagpur, he settled down to work beautifully alongside Cheteshwar Pujara. Where Vijay erred once or twice, Pujara barely gave anything away to strike his 14th Test ton. The duo stitched a 209-run stand and took the game away from the visiting Sri Lanka. Once Vijay get out for well played 128 runs the only wicket of the day – Virat Kohli walked in and scored a fifty at brisk pace against an ambling Sri Lanka attack. India resume third day’s play from 312/2 and a lead of 107 runs.