India takes control

Indian cricket\'s prodigal son Sreesanth returned to international cricket in style with a five-for, and six wickets overall, to leave Sri Lanka staring at defeat in the second Test in Kanpur.



Sri Lanka, who were forced to follow on after tea, were tottering in the second innings still 356 runs adrift with six wickets standing.



Most of the work was done by Sreesanth, playing his first international game in 19 months.



For nine successive overs in the first session, and for seven in the second, he ran in hard and found life in a slow pitch.



Sreesanth led the way in the second innings too, removing Tillakaratne Dilshan with a leg cutter, before Sri Lanka started to disintegrate against spin.



Mahela Jayawardene and Prasanna Jayawardene offered some resistance with a 60-run partnership in the first innings but Sri Lanka threatened to implode without much fight in the second.



Tharanga Paranavitana was trapped by an arm-ball from Virender Sehwag and Kumar Sangakkara chopped a top spinner from Harbhajan on to the stumps.



However, the decisive moment of the collapse was the run-out of Mahela, the first-innings top scorer.



Scores: Sri Lanka 229 and 57 for four, replying to India’s 642.