As it happened: India vs Sri Lanka, 2nd Test, 1st day, Bengaluru

What a day for India. A day that showed, not for the first time, that there's nowhere to hide against this bowling attack. Sri Lanka may have expected the spin trio to hound them, given how much turn and uncertain bounce there was on offer, but it was Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami who shared five out of the six wickets that fell. Those two, and Shreyas Iyer, who scored 92 and took two sharp catches at third slip, have put India well out of reach of Sri Lanka, unless there's some sort of miracle tomorrow.

"I just decided I couldn't get out defending the ball because there was more chance getting out that way," is the key line from Iyer's interview with Star Sports at the end of the day's play. He put away some poor bowling from Sri Lanka's spinners, but his approach also ensured they were always under pressure, and never allowed to settle into their lengths.

That's all from me for tonight. Here's a little teaser of the full report, which will be up very soon:

A soft-ish end to what may have been the innings of the day. Yes, Shreyas Iyer made a superb 92, but Angelo Mathews faced by far the better bowling attack, and showed a method by which he could not only survive but also score runs. Having got to 43, however, Mathews gives it away with a loose shot. A slower offcutter from Bumrah, but not one of his best-directed ones. It's shortish, and fairly wide of off stump, and the lack of pace as much as anything else drew Mathews into a jab away from his body. A bit of extra bounce, and the top edge settles nicely in second slip's hands. Sri Lanka are 85 for 6.

Update: Bumrah could have had another with the fifth ball of his over. Speared in a full, fast ball from round the wicket that grazed Lasith Embuldeniya's front pad on the full, low down, on its way down the leg side. India didn't bother reviewing when their lbw appeal was turned down, but ball-tracking suggests the ball would have hit a good chunk of leg stump.

The bowler we've all been waiting to see. He comes on in the 16th over of Sri Lanka's innings, and he strikes in the 18th. You could say Charith Asalanka has thrown away his wicket here, stepping out and trying to hit Axar over the top, but he's used his feet a couple of times to Ravindra Jadeja before this without getting in trouble. Axar gets this ball to drop on him a little, and then to turn less than expected - or not at all. He wanted to hit over mid-on or midwicket, and he ended up slicing it high in the air to the fielder at mid-off. Sri Lanka are 50 for 5.

You could see why Nitin Menon adjudged it not out on the field. Dhananjaya de Silva was on his toes, and struck just above the back knee roll. But Shami is skiddy, and when people say that, they mean exactly this - the ball follows a shallow trajectory off the pitch, bouncing slightly lower than the batter might expect, and reaching the batter quicker than he might expect. He often gets bowleds and lbws from shorter lengths than most other fast bowlers. Dhananjaya is late on his defensive shot, and Shami and Rishabh Pant plead with Rohit Sharma to take the review. He didn't look entirely convinced, but he would have been relieved when the ball-tracking graphic came up, showing three reds.

Sri Lanka are 28 for 4.

Who needs spinners indeed. Seeing how well Bumrah's bowled from his end, Rohit Sharma has brought on Mohammed Shami from the other. And he's struck with his first ball. A trademark Shami wicket. On a length, angling into the corridor from around the wicket with the seam bolt upright. Dimuth Karunaratne stretches out to defend, and the ball seams in, sneaks into the gap between bat and pad, and rams into off and middle stumps.

Bumrah strikes again. His first wicket was the outswinger to the right-hander. His second is the outswinger to the left-hander. Angling in from around the wicket, swinging so late that you could mistake it for seam, and Thirimanne, stuck on the crease, pushes at it with hard hands and edges to Shreyas Iyer, who takes a second excellent low catch at third slip to go with his 92. Sri Lanka are 14 for 2.

India start with Bumrah from one end and Ashwin at the other, and Bumrah takes just seven balls to strike, putting on a display of two-way swing bowling under lights. First ball of his second over is a full outswinger inviting the drive, and Kusal Mendis obliges, only managing to nick it to third slip.

Interesting that Sri Lanka opened with Mendis. They may have wanted to split their two left-handed openers, but now Lahiru Thirimanne has joined Dimuth Karunaratne in the middle.

A clever tweet, but not the most accurate one, I would say. To score 92 on a pitch like this is a terrific effort, no doubt about that, but Sri Lanka's bowling was mediocre at best and at times truly awful. They provided India's batters a steady diet of long-hops and half-volleys, and wasted a massive opportunity to make good use of all the turn and variable bounce on offer.

According to our ball-by-ball data, Iyer only defended 11 of the 91 balls he faced from the spinners today. He's also played 26 shots marked as "push", which could either be defensive shots, or shots played looking for singles. Even so, it's a really low percentage, and it tells you all you need to know about the bowling.

Iyer falls eight short of a hundred, but he's hustled India to what certainly seems, at the moment, like a match-winning first-innings surface. Stepping out of his crease in pursuit of his fifth six, Iyer doesn't quite reach the pitch of a ball that's delivered by Jayawickrama from left-arm over. It pitches well outside leg stump, and Dickwella collects it outside off stump and completes the stumping.

They've taken the dinner break on the stroke of that wicket, and when Sri Lanka begin their innings, they'll either have to face spin straightaway with the new ball, or Bumrah and Shami with the pink ball under lights, or a combination of pace and spin. Whatever it is, it'll be a massive, massive challenge.

Let's hope it isn't serious. He's gone off the field for now. Shreyas Iyer, looking to hit Jayawickrama for a second straight six in two overs from the left-arm spinner, doesn't quite get to the pitch of the ball. Mendis sprints to his right from long-off and throws himself full-length to try and take the catch, but he can't hold on, and he appears to have injured himself in the process. He walks off, clutching his shoulder.

Either side of that, meanwhile, Sri Lanka have burned two reviews for lbw. On both occasions, Jasprit Bumrah stretched out to defend and got thick inside-edges into his pad. Kind of sums up the day they've had.

India are 243 for 9, and Iyer is batting on 83.

Jayawickrama begins a new spell with another long-hop, and Mohammed Shami pulls it for four. Four balls later, Jayawickrama bowls a similar-looking delivery, but it kicks up from the pitch, and Shami top-edges the attempted pull high in the air, and the man at gully settles under it to make it 229 for 9.

The farewell man gets one, coming back for a spell to try and stem the run flow. He starts his over poorly, with a ball down the leg side that Iyer puts away for four, but ends it well, getting one to keep slightly low while angling in from round the wicket, and Axar bottom-edges an attempted cut into his stumps. India are 215 for 8.

A sharp chance, diving to his right, at short midwicket, after Iyer pulls another short ball from Embuldeniya. The left-arm spinner sends down another long-hop soon afterwards, and Iyer hammers it over the midwicket fielder and picks up four. It's like the bowler is himself supplying the salt that's to be rubbed into his wounds.

After Ashwin's dismissal, Iyer has faced three balls from Dhananjaya, and hit them for 6, 1, 6 to bring up a half-century off just 54 balls. Terrific innings, given the conditions, and he's played some superb shots along the way, not least those two meaty sixes, the second of which has cleared the stadium roof.

Update: Embuldeniya begins the next over with a long-hop, and Axar Patel swivels and swats it over midwicket for another six, bringing up India's 200. Sri Lanka's bowling has been shockingly poor at times.

Dhananjaya gets another. Looking to late-cut the offspinner, R Ashwin edges to Dickwella. He's made 13, and India are 183 for 7.

Iyer, meanwhile, is batting on 37.

We've asked our experts, and this is what they have to say.

Andrew Fidel Fernando: So part of me thinks it is not as bonkers a pitch as is being made out. I mean, don’t get me wrong. It’s very dry. The ball is coming off the straight like a ballistic missile that’s been launched. But there are batters - across both teams - who can put away the appropriate shots, and find ways to survive. So far, it doesn’t seem to be the kind of apocalyptic minefield where you MUST put away your Test technique and play essentially in a T20 style. For someone like Rishabh Pant that kind of approach might be the best route to a score. But I think there are other ways of going about it too. We’ve seen these kinds of pitches in Sri Lanka often. And batters do find ways.

I guess there are two caveats to that. One is the kind of variable bounce that brought the end of Virat Kohli. But we’ve only seen a handful of balls misbehave like that, and only from that end. The other is that perhaps the pink ball makes these kinds of pitches more difficult than usual for batters.

Sidharth Monga: Sri Lanka’s bowling makes this pitch look better. I don’t think I have ever seen poorer bowling in helpful conditions ever. This is a really difficult pitch, more in the category of Nagpur 2015-16. It has variable turn, bounce and pace off the pitch. It is very very difficult for the batters to set up for any kind of response to a ball. You wait till Ashwin, Jadeja and Axar bowl on this, and it won’t be long before they do. Personally I don’t mind a turning track even from day one every now and then, but the uneven bounce in the first session tells me this is a bit too loaded. I wonder why this has happened because I would like to believe groundsmen don’t want this on purpose. It will be a nervous few days for them as they wait for the ICC rating of this pitch.

Nagraj Gollapudi: Even contest between bat and ball is essentially what determines a good pitch, and what eventually lets match referees decide on the rating pitches get. Uneven bounce is what has stood out already in the first two sessions of this day-night Test. The ball has spun square, and there has been more than one grubber, one even consuming Virat Kohli. The pitch so far has been massively skewed in the favour of the spinners. And if the pitch continues to deteriorate, this pitch will, and surely must, face tough questions from the match officials.

and sure enough...

(this one, of course, is from 2013)

Second one after tea, and second one of a left-hander trying to cut. This time there's turn and lots of bounce, and Jadeja, cramped for room, gloves the ball to slip. India are 148 for 6.

A missed switch-hit, a beautifully timed drive between mid-off and extra-cover, and a sliced drive wide of gully, after making a lot of room. Iyer is playing his shots off Embuldeniya, and he seems to be trying to ransack as many runs he can get before the unplayable one arrives.

One cute shot too many from Pant. He looks to make room and cut one off his stumps, and the ball turns past his inside edge. He's out for 39 off 26, and India are 126 for 5.

First over after tea, Pant hits Dhananjaya for two fours and then misses an attempted reverse-sweep. His intent is crystal-clear, and he's already hit five fours in moving to 26 off 14 balls, but two of those fours (including one in this over) have come off full-tosses, and one of them off a short ball. Sri Lanka cannot afford to give Pant of all people freebies.

Update: The next over, from Jayawickrama, brings three fours. Pant hits two of them, both from balls turning into his pads or down the leg side, and Iyer hits the other, crashing a short ball through the covers off the back foot. India are 117 for 4.

This is a square turner, folks, and there's some up-and-down bounce already on display. India have lost four wickets before tea, but they might be the happier team at the break, considering they have 93 on the board already, and considering the potency of their spin attack in these sorts of conditions. Still a lot to do for India's batters, of course, but if you wanted to stick your neck out, you'd say 250 might be a winning first-innings total on this pitch.

Rishabh Pant has come out looking to play his shots, and he's moved to 16 off 9, and with him is Shreyas Iyer. Sri Lanka's spinners have looked dangerous without always bowling the right lengths, and they'll want to send back these two as quickly as possible if they are to limit India to under 200, which should be their target here. Still quite a bit of batting to come too, with Jadeja, Ashwin and Axar waiting their turn.

Old-timers in the Chinnaswamy crowd, meanwhile, might be discussing this Test match as we speak.

Dhananjaya de Silva comes on with the left-handed Rishabh Pant at the crease, and he strikes third ball to take out the right-handed Virat Kohli. Absolutely nothing Kohli could have done about this ball. It pitched well outside off stump, on a shortish length, and he went back to try and work it into the leg side as pretty much every batter would have. But it scoots through low and hits his front pad low down, right in front of the stumps. He goes for 23, and India are 86 for 4.

Having produced that lbw shout and review, Jayawickrama had produced a little more natural variation over his next over-and-a-half, striking both halves of the bat when Vihari came forward to defend.

Then, in the 27th over, his eighth, Jayawickrama bowls one slightly slower, just outside off, and Vihari's bat is drawn away from his body while defending. If Jayawickrama hadn't bowled those balls that had skidded on with the angle, he might have left this ball, but now Vihari isn't so sure anymore. The ball grips, turns and bounces, and Dickwella takes a juggling catch, a good one given the deflection off the edge.

India are 76 for 3.

The ball has turned and bounced all morning at the Chinnaswamy, but natural variation hadn't shown up until the 23rd over, Jayawickrama's sixth. Vihari, who has looked in command against both spinners, goes on the back foot and the ball skids on with the angle from left-arm round. Vihari's head is well outside the line of the ball and he has to play all around his body to try and access the ball. He fails to, it thuds into his front pad, and umpire Nitin Menon gives it out, but Vihari reviews immediately, and it's a good review, because the angle is taking the ball down the leg side.

India are 69 for 2.

In the 16th over , Vihari plays the perfect inside-out drive off Embuldeniya, closing his front shoulder and sliding his back foot towards the leg side to help him with his alignment.

In the 18th, Kohli plays his trademark wristy drive off Embuldeniya, bringing his bottom hand into the shot and imparting plenty of topspin to ensure he plays it along the ground even though the ball isn't quite a half-volley.

Jayawickrama shows signs of settling down in his third over, and beats Kohli's defensive bat with another ripping turner from a good length. This prompts Karunaratne to move the short midwicket fielder to gully. Eyeing that gap, Kohli looks for a front-foot flick, but he isn't close enough to the pitch of the ball to play against the turn, and the leading edge pops in the air, but falls just short of Kusal Mendis diving to his left at short extra-cover.

He's conceded 15 off his first two overs, and there have been long-hops, half-volleys and balls angling down the leg side, but if he can settle into a length, he might cause India some bother. Penultimate ball of his second over turns absolutely square. Pitches middle and leg and turns across the face of Virat Kohli's bat to beat his defensive push by a distance.

Embuldeniya has struck in his second over. A similar ball to the one that produced the edge from Vihari in his previous over. Turn and bounce as Rohit presses forward to defend, and a thick edge falls into the lap of gully. Rohit is out for 15, and India are 29 for 2.

Definitely bounced too - the ball went off the edge of the bat sticker. Not the biggest stride forward from Rohit, you'd have to say.

A tribute to Shane Warne from last week, but look at the fifth name, and the first fingerspinner, on that list. Lasith Embuldeniya gives the ball a rip, and he's going to get something out of this Chinnaswamy pitch for sure. The last ball of his first over - the eighth of India's innings - raises a puff of dust and turns, and Hanuma Vihari, pressing forward to defend, gets a thick edge that falls just short of slip diving to his right.

In Mohali, Rohit pulled Lahiru Kumara for two fours and then pulled him straight into long leg's hands, all in the same over. It wasn't the first time he's been out to that shot in recent times, but he's not going to stop playing it.

It doesn't take him long in Bengaluru. Vishwa drops short in the sixth over, and Rohit deposits the ball in the stand beyond the boundary at deep midwicket.

Literally. There's been a bit of swing for both new-ball bowlers, and in the second over, Vishwa Fernando's left-arm inswing produces a big lbw shout against Mayank Agarwal, who's stuck well back in his crease. Not-out is the on-field decision, and while everyone's standing around, Agarwal decides to sprint out of his ground for a quick run into the vacant cover region. But the backward point fielder, Jayawickrama, is alert, and he sprints quickly to his right to pick up the ball. By this time, Agarwal is more than halfway down the pitch, disregarding Rohit Sharma's complete lack of interest in the run. He's run-out, and that's very lucky for Sri Lanka, because they were thinking of reviewing, and it turns out that a: Vishwa had overstepped, and b: Agarwal had got a bit of inside-edge into his pad.

Make sense of all that.

Agarwal is run-out for 4 in his first Test at his home ground, and India are 10 for 1.

India have won the toss, and they'll bat first. Rohit Sharma says the pitch looks dry too.

Axar, as expected, slots straight back in, in place of Jayant Yadav. That's the only change for India.

Dimuth Karunaratne says he would have batted as well. He expects turn in the latter part of the game. Kusal Mendis and Praveen Jayawickrama come in for the injured Nissanka and Kumara. Two left-arm spinners for Sri Lanka.

I'm particularly looking forward to seeing how Jayawickrama goes here. Last year, Axar demolished England in a pink-ball Test in Ahmedabad, using the extra lacquer on the ball to get it to skid on quick and straight and pick up a bunch of bowleds and lbws. Jayawickrama isn't as quick as Axar, but he bowls with a similarly low arm and creates that big angle from wide of the crease, and he uses the skiddy straighter one pretty well too. We'll see if the pink ball behaves in the same way off this Bengaluru surface, but if it's anything like the Ahmedabad one last year, both Axar and Jayawickrama could prove very, very handy.