2
1
wd
W
0
W
2
= 6
Match Details
IND vs SL 1st T20, IND vs SL 2021
SL
126-1018.3
India won by 38 runs
IND
20.0164-5
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Player of the Match
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
India4/22
SL - 2nd Innings| Session | Open | PASS | 6 Over | 47 | 46 | 10 Over | 75 | 64 | 15 Over | 100 | 107 |
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IND - 1st Innings| Session | Open | PASS | 6 Over | 52 | 51 | 10 Over | 85 | 78 | 15 Over | 123 | 121 | 20 Over | 178 | 164 |
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So that's goodbye from me, Anurag, and my partners DG and Akshay from the comm box. Do join us tomorrow for TNPL and The Hundred fixtures in the evening. Good night and take care!!
Shikhar Dhawan: I thought we were 10-15 runs short but we felt it was still a good total. We played quite well after losing a wicket on the first ball. Getting to 50 in the powerplay was good. Surya is a great player and we enjoy watching him bat. He was taking pressure off me as well. Sri Lanka were playing well but we knew our spinners will get some turn. Yuzi and KP bowled really well. And even Varun, playing his first match. Prithvi is playing really well and I am sure he will bounce back in the next game.
Dasun Shanaka: I think 164 was chaseable on this wicket. I think their bowlers upfront started really well. And then there were not enough middle-order batters to finish the game. I think our bowlers did an amazing job. I hope we come out and do better than this in the next game.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar: I played ODI after a couple of months, so you take some time to get into the rhythm. It was a good batting wicket but there was some help for bowlers too. The wicket was difficult to bat against the spinners.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar bags in the Man of the Match award.
Time for Post-match presentation.
Bhuvi started with the new ball for India but was extremely unlucky not to get a wicket in the powerplay. After the swing bowlers failed to fetch any wicket in the first two, Krunal came into the attack and scalped Bhanuka in his first over. The plan was simple and effective, get ahead of the run chase in the powerplay and that’s what Sri Lanka did. The spinners came on and rattled the top and middle order of Sri Lanka and Chahar, Bhuvi did the rest in the death. After the fall of Asalanka, a flurry of wickets in the end completely dismantled Sri Lanka and they even fail to play their quota of 20 overs.
Decent work from Sri Lanka to start off, restricting the heavy batting lineup of India to 164 that doesn’t look anywhere close to par here. The Men in Blue lost a wicket first ball, then recovered well with Dhawan, Samson, and Suryakumar all firing today. Sri Lanka found joy with the change of pace and Hasaranga rattled the batters with his variations as well. Ishan Kishan threw his bat at everything but had little to show for it. With the pitch slowing up and keeping the dew factor in play, this chase was always gonna be tricky.
And with that India defeat Sri Lanka by 38 runs and take a lead in the three-match T20I series by 1-0. A valiant effort by Asalanka almost took the game away from India but Deepak Chahar with two wickets in an over brought India right back into the game.
18.3 B Kumar to D Chameera
W Gone! That's the end of the match and India have beaten Sri Lanka pretty comfortably here. Bhuvneshwar Kumar has bagged a 4-fer. Full delivery, angled into the batter. Chameera goes for the big heave on the leg side, but he fails to get the required connection and finds the fielder at deep mid wicket.
18.2 B Kumar to A Dananjaya
1 Length on the stumps, Dananjaya clips it to long on for a single..
Singh: India wrapping this early, just one wicket away from victory. Was perhaps a knuckle ball. Udana fails to get the desired connection on his attempted slog and ends up lobbying it towards SKY at long off who takes a regulation catch to dismiss the batter..
18.1 B Kumar to I Udana
W In the air and taken!!! Bhuvi has yet another wicket under his kitty. India wrapping this one pretty quickly. Knuckle ball on the stumps. Udana fails to get the connection on his attempted slog and miscues the ball to SKY at long off who swallows a simple catch in the end.
OVER 18
Sri Lanka
125/8
Dushmantha Chameera
1(2)
Isuru Udana
1(1)
Varun Chakravarthy
1-28(4.0)
17.6 V Chakravarthy to D Chameera
0 Really well bowled again!! Another quicker one just outside the off. Chameera prods forward and goes for the drive. The ball fizzes past the bat-pad gap and beats the inside-edge..
17.5 V Chakravarthy to D Chameera
1 Brings out the sweep shot and places it wide of the deep backward square fielder for a single. There's a short run taken on that occasion..
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