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Sehwag 284 not out

AFP, Mumbai
Virender Sehwag smashed a scintillating unbeaten double century as India turned the tables on Sri Lanka in the third and final cricket Test on Thursday.
Sehwag made 284 not out to lift the hosts to 443-1 by stumps on the second day at the Brabourne Stadium in reply to Sri Lanka's first innings total of393.
The Delhi opener has so far hit 40 boundaries and seven
sixes in his 239-ball innings, his sixth knock of 200 or more, two of which were converted into triple hundreds.
If he makes 16 more runs on Friday to reach 300, Sehwag will become the first batsman in history to score three triplecenturies. Australian legend Don Bradman and West Indian great Brian I^ra have two each.
Sehwag made light of the bounce and turn on the Brabourne stadium to share two double-century partnerships during the run-riot, cheered by 15,000 boisterous home fans.
He put on 221 for the first wicket with Murali Vijay (87) and 222 for the unbroken second with Rahul Dravid, whose share in the partnership was 62.
Vijay, playing the Test only because Gautam Gambhir was unavailable due to his sister's wedding, matched his partner's audacious strokeplay with 10 boundaries and a six.
Vijay became Sri Lanka’s lone success of the day when he was trapped leg-before by left-arm spinner Rangana Herath before tea when he FROM PAGE 17
missed an attempted sweep.
India scored 168 runs from 27 overs in the post-lunch session and 183 more in 34 overs in the final two hours to increase Sri Lanka's misery.
Off-spinner Muttiah Muralidaran, the world's leading bowler with 788 wickets, conceded 119 nins in 20 wicketless overs, while Herath went for 112 runs in his 22 overs.
Sehwag appeared to carry on from his 131 in the second Test in Kanpur last week, which India won by an innings and 144 runs to take a 1 -0 lead in the series.
When he reached 48 by lofting Herath for a six over long-off, Sehwag went past the 6,000-run mark in his 72ndTest.
Sehwag reached his double century with four boundaries in one over from seamer Nuwan Kulasekara after tea.
Earlier, Sri Lanka were dismissed 25 minutes after the start w’hen they resumed their first innings at the overnight total of366-8.
All-rounder Angelo Mathews was run out on 99 as he attempted a second run to
reach his maiden Test century after playing a shot to deep square-leg.
Sachin Tendulkar swooped on the ball and rifled in a return to wicket-keeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who broke the stumps a split second before Mathews made his ground.
Mathews, who was on 86 overnight, hit two boundaries and a two in Shanthakumaran Sreesanth's first over to race to 96, but fell in trying to reach his century in a hurry.
Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh was India's most successful bowler with 4-112, while left-arm slow bowler Pragyan Ojha took 3 -101.
SCOREBOARD
Scoreboard at stumps on the second day of the third and final Test between India and Sri Lanka at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai on Thursday:
SRI LANKA: First innings (overnight 366-8) Paranavitana c Dravid
. b Harbhajan 53
Dilshan c Vijay b Harbhajan 109
Sangakkara c Dhoni b Ojha 18 M Jayawardene c Sehwag b Sreesanth 29
Samaraweera c Vijay b Harbhajan 1 Mathews run out 99 P Jayawardene c
Harbhajan b Ojha 43 Kulasekara c Dhoni b Zaheer 12 Herath c Dravid b Harbhajan 1 Muralidaran not out 4 Welegedara lbw b Ojha 8 Extras: (b-4. lb-6, nb-4, w-2) 16 Total: (All out in 94 4 overs) 393 Fall of wickets: 1-93, 2-128, 3-187, 4-188, 5-262, 6-329, 7-359,8-362,9-379.
Bowler O M R W Zaheer 19 2 70 1 Sreesanth 16 1 82 1 Harbhajan 32 3 112 4 Ojha 23.4 1 101 3 Yuvraj 4 0 18 0 INDIA: First innings
Vijay lbw b Herath 87 Sehwag not out 284 Dravid not out 62 Extras: (lb-3, nb-7) 10 Total: (Foronewkt in 79 overs) 443 To bat: Tendulkar, Laxman, Yuvraj, Dhoni, Harbhajan, Ojha, Zaheer, Sreesanth.
Fall of wicket: 1-221.
Bowler O M R W
Welegedara 16 2 73 0 Kulasekara 12 0 84 0
Herath 22 2 112 1 Muralidaran20 0 119 0 Mathews 6 0 36 0 Dilshan 3 0 16 0