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Match Details
IND vs SL 3rd ODI, IND vs SL 2023
SL
73-1022.0
India won by 317 runs 🏆
IND
50.0390-5
Player of the Match
Virat Kohli
India166(110)
SL - 2nd Innings| Session | Open | PASS | 10 Over | 46 | 39 | 15 Over | 62 | 50 | 20 Over | 71 | 61 |
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IND - 1st Innings| Session | Open | PASS | 10 Over | 57 | 75 | 20 Over | 133 | 126 | 30 Over | 188 | 193 | 35 Over | 230 | 235 | 40 Over | 270 | 274 | 50 Over | 385 | 390 |
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Milestone
That's it from this game and the series. India won it comfortably 3-0. India will next play New Zealand in a 3-match ODI series starting on Wednesday in Hyderabad. Do join us for that game and for all other fixtures across the globe in our network in the coming days, For now, this is me Ayan Chatterjee signing off on behalf of my co-commentators Ninaad Dixit and Arijit Kundu alongside scorer/analyst Zeeshan Naiyer. Stay safe, happy, and cool. Goodnight and CHEERS!
So, Rohit Sharma collects the trophy and goes to his teammates and they deserve this win and time to celebrate for them. They have been head and shoulders above Sri Lanka in this series.
Rohit Sharma (India Captain): "Yes, pretty much. It was a great series for us. Loads of positives. Bowled well and got the breakthroughs and the batters piled it on. Good to see Siraj and how he was bowling and swinging the ball. He is a rare talent and we have seen him grow from strength to strength and it's great to see. Yes, we tried, but not to be. The fifer will come soon I am sure. He is getting the reward.
Honestly, not thinking about New Zealand. But we will be back to the drawing board and see the conditions out there and there will be a different combination out there. I think they are a quality side having come off a series win over Pakistan. So, it's going to be a good series for all of us and we are looking forward to it."
Honestly, not thinking about New Zealand. But we will be back to the drawing board and see the conditions out there and there will be a different combination out there. I think they are a quality side having come off a series win over Pakistan. So, it's going to be a good series for all of us and we are looking forward to it."
Virat Kohli: "For me its just byproduct of the intent I have, the mindset that I play with which is to help the team as much as I can and to bat for as long as possible. Put the team in a strong positions and eventually when you play with the situation of the game and the pace of the game, the demands of the game basically then you end up making the difference. I have always played for the right reasons, help the team as much as possible and then eventually that's ended up as the difference a lot of the time and its just intent, its just playing for the right reasons.
Ever since I took a long break, I came back and have been feeling very good about my game so I don't have that desperation anymore to get to a milestone. For me its just to enjoy my batting and making sure as I said, help the team as much as I can and I am happy that I am just able to do that. Continue being in the space where I am relaxed, I am contend with how am I playing and that for me is the most important thing. Today as well, I was happy to be out there batting, batting to be as long as possible. In that space, I play my best cricket and that's the case in the past. When I've got a bit desperate, things were running away from me as I mentioned last time as well. So I am in a nice space right now and I just want to continue with the same, just be organic everyday however I feel, I just follow that feeling and I don't fight anything.
Its phenomenal. Shami has always been there for us with the new ball but I think the way Siraj has come up and he's bowled with the new ball, he's been outstanding. I think he's got the maximum number of wickets in the powerplay if I am not wrong and that was one of the issues that we had in the past. So he has come in and rectified that and you can see it in his body language, with his will to take wickets. He wants to make a breakthrough whenever possible always making the batters think which is a great sign for us heading into the World Cup year. If he can be in form and bowl the way he does, then we have Shami and then Bumrah will come back as well so its a great fast bowling unit."
Ever since I took a long break, I came back and have been feeling very good about my game so I don't have that desperation anymore to get to a milestone. For me its just to enjoy my batting and making sure as I said, help the team as much as I can and I am happy that I am just able to do that. Continue being in the space where I am relaxed, I am contend with how am I playing and that for me is the most important thing. Today as well, I was happy to be out there batting, batting to be as long as possible. In that space, I play my best cricket and that's the case in the past. When I've got a bit desperate, things were running away from me as I mentioned last time as well. So I am in a nice space right now and I just want to continue with the same, just be organic everyday however I feel, I just follow that feeling and I don't fight anything.
Its phenomenal. Shami has always been there for us with the new ball but I think the way Siraj has come up and he's bowled with the new ball, he's been outstanding. I think he's got the maximum number of wickets in the powerplay if I am not wrong and that was one of the issues that we had in the past. So he has come in and rectified that and you can see it in his body language, with his will to take wickets. He wants to make a breakthrough whenever possible always making the batters think which is a great sign for us heading into the World Cup year. If he can be in form and bowl the way he does, then we have Shami and then Bumrah will come back as well so its a great fast bowling unit."
Virat Kohli is the player of the series as well!
Virat Kohli is the player of the match.
Dasun Shanaka (Sri Lanka Captain): "Yes, it's disappointing. A game to forget. We were bad from the start. We failed with both and bat. We need to know how to bat and bowl in these conditions. I don't know about them, need to go back and find out. I think we need to be positive in our intent and approach and that's the only way to succeed here in India. I want to congratulate Rohit and his boys for winning the series."
Time for the post-match presentation ceremony.
Mohammad Siraj: " I wanted to try and get my first fifer. Tried very hard, but you get only as much as you deserve. The out-swing was coming out nicely, but the wicket-taking over was the scrambled seam. I just try to generate some doubt in the batter’s mind with those out-swing deliveries. Captain tried hard to get me that fifer, but what can we do?"
7:43 PM IST | So, the players shake hands with each other and that will be the end of the match. India have won by 317 runs which is actually the largest margin of victory in ODIs now.
And the question at the end of the match will be who should be the player of the match! A headache for the nominators but it’s a good headache for India to have with nine months away from the World Cup.
Arriving to chase a humongous 391 runs total. Sri Lanka kept on losing wickets in the innings. One might say the pressure of the scoreboard or the other thing could be the lack of capability to negotiate a good bowling attack. Sri Lanka lost their first wicket in the second over and it was Mohammad Siraj with the breakthrough. Nuwanidu Fernando was the only batter who looked in good touch but was undone by the brilliance of Siraj. He rattled the top order of Sri Lanka with assistance from Mohammad Shami who shared the new ball.
Siraj and Shami attacked the probing line outside the off stump and got a couple of batters nicked. The former was offered an extended spell and he ensured that none of the batters get settled.
Siraj enforced a bizarre dismissal of Chamika Karunaratne who was posing after a defense and the bowler hit the stumps while Karunaratne’s limb was just outside the crease.
The last wicket partnership tried to hang around for a while but eventually tailed out. Siraj was the pick of the bowlers and became the highest wicket-taker in the series. He had four wickets under his name today. Kuldeep Yadav and Mohammad Shami bagged two wickets each.
India had won the toss and opted to bat first. The decision turned out gold for them as the batters could cash on a hefty total on the board. Two centuries to the tally in the batting order and India could register 390 runs at the end of 50 overs.
Shubman Gill and Rohit Sharma got off to a flyer, scoring 75 runs inside the first powerplay. Soon, the Sri Lanka bowlers were torn apart by the duo of Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli. They glued a 131 runs stand together after 95 runs opening stand.
Gill was elegant throughout his stay and notched up a century. As soon as he was dismissed, it was Shreyas Iyer who assisted the former Indian skipper to reach his 74th international century. Virat Kohli smashed three tons in quick time. He smashed 13 fours and 8 sixes in his magnificent innings of 166* of 110 balls. It compelled the scoreboard to touch 390 at the end of 50 overs.
OVER 22
Sri Lanka
73/9
Kasun Rajitha
13(19)
Kuldeep Yadav
2-16(5.0)
21.6 K Yadav to L Kumara
W WICKET! That's the end of the game. Flights it up here, Kumara goes for the slog and all he does is drag it back onto the stumps. Kumara departs as the 9th one goes down and as Ashen Bandara cannot bat, it will mean this is the end of the match. 73/9 and a win by 317 runs for India. They whitewash the Lankans 3-0.
21.5 K Yadav to L Kumara
0 Short and wide, Kumara steers it to the point fielder.
21.4 K Yadav to L Kumara
0 Back of a length spinning away outside off, Kumara lets it go through to the keeper.
21.3 K Yadav to L Kumara
0 Tosses it up here, Kumara goes for the big hoick and inside edges it to the pads.
21.2 K Yadav to L Kumara
4 FOUR! Tosses it up here, Kumara takes it on and lofts it straight down the ground over the bowler's head as he collects a boundary here.
21.1 K Yadav to L Kumara
0 Fuller length spinning away, Kumara lets it go to the keeper.
OVER 21
Sri Lanka
69/8
Kasun Rajitha
13(19)
Lahiru Kumara
5(13)
Mohammed Siraj
4-32(10.0)
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