#3 Collective fielding effort

The Indian team has, over the years, improved their ground fielding by leaps and bounds (literally!). The team has some super safe pair of hands in the middle, who are dependable in pouching the white ball under lights without breaking a sweat.
Suresh Raina has been India's torch-bearer in fielding for years, and at 31, still looks just as sharp as he did a decade back. Manning the field on the leg-side, he kickstarted India's wicket-taking exercise by diving to his right and gobbling Danushka Gunathilaka mid-air off Shardul Thakur inside the 30-yard-circle, with the rest of the team following him thereafter and keeping the screws tight on the run-flow.
He almost took another blinder later in the innings, and was assisted by the rest of the unit as six of the nine victims went to catches, including commendable efforts from the likes of Yuzvendra Chahal, who helped himself to a tricky skier in the outfield to dismiss Thisara Perera, taking the steam out of the Lankan innings.
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