Rohit-led India beat SL again

India made a couple of changes to their playing eleven – Jasprit Bumrah and Yuzvendra Chahal made way for Twenty20 International debutant Washington Sundar and Mohammed Siraj.

Sri Lanka made a couple of Cha(turanga)nges to the eleven that last played the Indians – de Silva and Angelo Mathews made way for Danushka Gunathilaka and Dasun Shanaka.

On winning the toss, Rohit Sharma, India’s skipper, inserted the visitors.

The first Powerplay of Sri Lanka’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the sixth over. They scored 37, and lost three wickets.

Niroshan Dickwella, who faced half-a-dozen balls, scored a run. Eleven balls into the match, he was caught by Siraj. Jaydev Unadkat, the player of the match and the player of the series, broke the eight-run stand.

Kusal Perera, who faced four balls, scored as many. His runs came by way of a boundary. Seven balls later, he was caught by Sundar, who broke the six-run stand.

Tharanga, whose run-a-ball innings included a coUp(u)le of boundaries, scored 11. Three balls later, he was caught by Hardik Pandya. Unadkat broke the four-run stand.

Sri Lanka scored 50 off 7.3 overs (45 balls). India had conceded four extras at that point.

Sadeera Samarawickrama, whose 17-ball innings included three boundaries, scored 21. Thirty balls after Tharanga’s dismissal, he was caught by Dinesh Karthik. Pandya broke the 38-run stand.

Gunathilaka, who faced eight balls, scored just three. Nineteen balls later, he was caught by Pandya. Kuldeep Yadav broke the 16-run stand.

Thisara Perera, Sri Lanka’s skipper, scored 11. His six-ball innings included a couple of boundaries. Eight balls later, he was caught by Sharma. Siraj broke the 13-run stand.

Eighty-three balls into the match, India sought a bowling review. Asela Gunaratne was the batsman. Using the umpire’s call, it was struck down by umpire Anil Chaudhary.

Sri Lanka scored 100 off 15.4 overs (94 balls). India had conceded eight extras at that point. That was, incidentally, the number of extras they eventually conceded.

Gunaratne, whose 37-ball innings included three boundaries, eventually scored 36. Twenty-seven balls after Perera’s dismissal, he was caught by Yadav. Pandya broke the 26-run stand.

Shanaka, whose 24-ball innings included a couple of sixes, scored 29. He was unbeaten, as was Akila Dananjaya, who scored 11. His seven-ball innings included a couple of boundaries.

Sri Lanka scored 135 for the loss of seven wickets off 20 overs.

Each of the four bowlers bowled four overs apiece.

Siraj, Yadav and Sundar picked up a wicket apiece. They conceded 45, 26, and 22, respectively. Pandya and Unadkat picked up a couple of scalps apiece. They conceded 25 and 15, respectively.

The first Powerplay of India’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the sixth over. They scored 37, and lost a wicket.

Twenty balls into the match, India sought a batting review. Lokesh Rahul, the batsman, faced nine balls. He was trapped leg be‘four’ wicket by Dushmantha Chameera, who broke the 17-run stand. Using the umpire’s call, it was struck down by Chaudhary.

Sharma, whose 20-ball innings included four boundaries and a six, scored 27. Twenty-two balls later, he was caught by Kusal. Shanaka broke the run-a-ball innings.

India scored 50 off nine overs (54 balls). Sri Lanka had conceded half-a-dozen extras at that point.

The third-wicket pair put on 42. Shreyas Iyer, whose 32-ball innings included a boundary and a six, scored 30. Thirty-eight balls after Sharma’s dismissal, Dananjaya ran him out.

Pandya, who faced four balls, scored as many. Ten balls later, he was caught by Dickwella. Shanaka broke the 18-run stand.

India scored 100 off 15.1 overs (91 balls). Sri Lanka had conceded eight extras at that point. That was, incidentally, the number of extras they eventually conceded.

Manish Pandey, whose 29-ball innings included four boundaries, scored 32. Seven balls later, Chameera broke the nine-run stand.

A hundred and two balls into the match, Sri Lanka sought a bowling review. Mahendra Singh Dhoni was the batsman, Using the umpire’s call, it was struck down by Nitin Menon.

Karthik, whose 12-ball innings included a six, scored 18. He was unbeaten.

Dhoni, whose innings included a couple of sixes, scored 16. He was unbea‘ten’.

India, who scored 139 for the loss of five wickets off 19.2 overs, won by five wickets with four balls to spare.

Thisara bowled 3.2 overs, conceding 22. He was wicketless, as were Nuwan Pradeep and Dananjaya, who bowled four overs apiece. While the former conceded 36, the latter conceded 27.

Shanaka and Chameera bowled four overs apiece, picking up a couple of scalps apiece. While the former conceded 27, the latter conceded 22.

India won the three-match series 2-0.