If Sri Lanka squandered video games from successful positions within the three-match T20 collection, on Friday, it was India’s flip to make a large number of a comparatively easy chase as the 2 sides performed out a sensational tied encounter within the first one-day worldwide on the R. Premadasa Stadium.
Chasing 231, the guests wanted simply 5 runs off the final three overs with two wickets in hand. And when Shivam Dube (25) punched Charith Asalanka (three for 30) to the duvet boundary off the third ball of the forty eighth, the sport appeared executed and dusted. However the Lankan skipper didn’t throw within the towel and managed to entice Dube and Arshdeep Singh leg-before off consecutive deliveries to salvage delight for his workforce.
On a tough pitch that provided appreciable help to the spinners, the Males in Blue received off to a flyer however misplaced their approach through the center because the Sri Lankan spinners saved their facet within the hunt, selecting wickets at common intervals.
Skipper Rohit Sharma (58, 47b, 7×4, 3×6) set the tone for the chase when he belted out a few of his classics – easy pulls, flicks and cuts – and despatched the Sri Lankan pacers on a leather-based hunt within the PowerPlay. He didn’t maintain again towards the spinners both, chopping Dunith Wellalage for 2 boundaries and sweeping off-spinner Akila Dananjaya for a 4 and 6 over square-leg to carry up his half-century in model off simply 33 balls.
Nevertheless, left-arm spinner Wellalage (two for 39) gave his facet a gap when he eliminated openers Shubman Gill and Rohit in successive overs. From 75 for no loss, India slumped to 87 for 3 when Dananjaya had Washington Sundar leg-before.
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Wanindu Hasaranga (three for 58) then received the massive scalp of Virat Kohli, trapped plumb in entrance, making an attempt to play off the again foot. Within the subsequent over, Asitha castled Shreyas to depart India, tottering at 132 for 5.
Ok.L. Rahul (31) and Axar Patel (33) stitched a 57-run partnership for the sixth wicket to get the innings again on monitor. Simply when issues seemed in management, Hasaranga eliminated Rahul when he skied to brief midwicket, making an attempt to comb, whereas Asalanka had Axar caught behind. Dube nearly noticed India dwelling, hitting two sixes, however failed to complete the job.
Earlier, half-centuries from opener Pathum Nissanka (56) and later Wellalage (67 n.o) helped the hosts publish 230 for eight after opting to bat. Nissanka, who topped the run charts within the T20 collection, carried his good kind and seemed constructive in his strategy. The 26-year-old performed eye-catching photographs off the back and front foot towards the quicks, peppered with punches and drives.
As was the case through the T20Is, Nissanka lacked assist from the center order as soon as the spinners got here on and the house workforce seemed in bother at 101 for 5. Fortuitously for Sri Lanka, Wellalage rose to the event and performed a composed knock, stitching three very important partnerships with the decrease order to assist his facet attain a preventing whole. It was not sufficient to win, nevertheless it helped keep away from an eleventh straight defeat to India throughout codecs.