India vs Sri Lanka 2017: 1st Test, day 1 - 5 things we learnt from the day

#2 Suranga Lakmal's outstanding spell

Lakmal was all over India before bad light stopped play

6-6-0-3, read Suranga Lakmal's opening burst on a green Eden wicket after Sri Lanka won the toss and opted to bowl in the first Test. The visitors had vengeance in plentiful having succumbed to an embarrassing loss in the home series less than three months ago. But very few expected them to fight back so early in the game with such venom.

The first ball of the match was a ripper that Lokesh Rahul could just fiddle at with a hanging bat.

The outside edge was found and India were 0/1 after 0.1 overs. In walked Cheteshwar Pujara who was greeted by two rip-roaring deliveries by the Lankan seamer.

Pujara survived doggedly, but Dhawan chose to go extravagant, only to be bowled off an inside edge. The skipper was next, missing a delivery that seamed in, to be struck in front for nought, his fifth zilch in the year.