India Vs Sri Lanka, India Moved Closer To Achieving Biggest Win Against Sri Lanka

India moved closer to achieving their biggest win against Sri Lanka by lunch on the fourth day of the second Test in Kanpur. India's previous best against their neighbors was a victory by an innings and 119 runs in 1994 and, by the look of things, that record will be broken today. Thilan Samaraweera hit an assured fifty but was in danger of being stranded by his team-mates. Sri Lanka looked to be more positive on the fourth morning, adding 149 runs in the session, but India kept picking up wickets at regular intervals. Zaheer Khan struck in his first over, dismissing Angelo Mathews with a bouncer. Mathews had crashed three fours in a row, which included a pull, and Zaheer placed a man at deep square-leg and tested Mathews with more bouncers. The first was fended off in an ungainly manner and the next was top-edged to backward point where Rahul Dravid took a lunging catch. Samaraweera proceeded to stitch together a 61-run partnership with Prasanna Jayawardene but Prasanna, much like in the first innings, flattered to deceive. He was looking good with his cuts and sweeps but was cleaned up by an off break from round the stumps from Harbhajan Singh. It drifted away and broke back in but Prasanna left a big bat-pad gap and was bowled. Muttiah Muralitharan indulged himself with a typical hit-and-giggle knock filled with slog sweeps but fell, going for yet another big hit. Samaraweera, who continued his golden run in 2009 with yet another Test fifty, was rarely troubled during his stay, the highlight of which was a whippy on-drive to a delivery on off and middle stump line from Sreesanth.