For the third match in a row, the Sri Lankan spinners spun an internet across the mighty Indian batting to bowl their aspect to a sensational 2-0 collection triumph after beating the Males in Blue by a mammoth 110 runs within the third and last one-day worldwide on the R. Premadasa Worldwide Cricket Stadium on Wednesday.
The win additionally marked Sri Lanka’s first one-day bilateral collection win in opposition to their neighbours in 27 years, arrange by its spinners who aptly took 27 out of the 30 wickets (9 in every match). Chasing 249 for victory, India succumbed to left-arm spinner Dunith Wellalage’s methods, who scalped an excellent five-wicket haul (5.1-0-27-5).
The customer’s chase adopted an identical sample to the primary two video games, the place skipper Rohit Sharma (35) obtained the crew off to a flyer but once more. However as soon as he was again within the dugout, the opposite batters have been like deer caught within the headlights in opposition to Lanka’s tweakers.
Wellalage struck 4 instances in his first 4 overs as India went from 53 for one to 82 for six in underneath six overs. The left-arm spinner claimed his first wicket of the day when Rohit edged to the keeper and later trapped Virat Kohli leg-before as he missed an arm ball making an attempt to play the spin.
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Within the thirteenth over, Wellalage castled Axar Patel and had Shreyas Iyer trapped in entrance — each batters caught on the again foot. Regardless of taking part in 9 batters, Rohit’s males surrendered meekly in simply two hours and have been shot out for 138.
Fittingly, Welllage, whose cameos with the bat within the first two matches proved important for the hosts, took the ultimate wicket.
Earlier, Avishka Fernando slammed an excellent 96 (102b, 9×4, 2×6) and located ready assist from Pathum Nissanka (45) and Kusal Mendis (59) to assist the house crew submit 248 for seven.
After profitable an important toss for the third time, Sri Lanka made good use of the circumstances in what seemed to be the very best strip of the collection, at the least for the primary half of the innings.
Avishka and his opening accomplice Nissanka obtained their crew off to a stable begin, taking aside Mohammed Siraj, India’s lone frontline pacer. Siraj was wavered, both drifting onto the pads or giving width, and Nissanka was fast to pounce on the alternatives, accumulating 4 boundaries.
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As soon as Nissanka was dismissed, Avishka and Mendis solid an 82-run alliance for the second wicket. The previous reached his half-century in type, driving Axar sq. by means of the off-side fence.
Sri Lanka’s Avishka Fernando, proper, and Kusal Mendis cheer throughout their partneship in opposition to India in Colombo.
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Sri Lanka’s Avishka Fernando, proper, and Kusal Mendis cheer throughout their partneship in opposition to India in Colombo.
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Within the twenty ninth over, Avishka punished Siraj by working him down third-man for a boundary earlier than authoritatively pulling the pacer over square-leg for back-to-back maximums.
Riyan Parag (three for 54), making his ODI debut, obtained the breakthrough by catching Avishka in entrance together with his leg-spin, 4 in need of what would have been a well-deserved century. Regardless of the Lions’ mini-collapse, going from 171 for one to 199 for six as soon as the pitch began taking flip, Kusal held fort at one finish to assist his aspect end strongly. In the long run, it proved greater than sufficient.