IND vs SL, Asia Cup 2023 weather updates: A heavy rain threat looms over the India vs Sri Lanka Super 4 match in Colombo on Tuesday.
India and Sri Lanka will meet in the Asia Cup 2023 Super Four institution at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Tuesday.
The winner of the match will move closer to a spot in the final to be held at the venue on September 17.
Dinuth Wellalage wiped out India’s Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul to register his demoiselle five- gate haul for Sri Lanka in ODIs at the Asia Cup 2023 Super Four match at the R Premadasa colosseum in Colombo on Tuesday.
The 20- time-old left- arm incentive put a stop to India’s fast launch by dismissing Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma in three overs. He added the lattices of KL Rahul and Hardik Pandya to complete his first ODI fifer.
India had sped to 80 for no loss in 11 overs before Wellalage came onto the attack. He dismissed Gill with his first ball, extracting his off refuse after pitching it on leg.
Virat Kohli was the coming to go, furnishing an easy catch to short midwicket. Rohit was dismissed the following over, with the ball not spinning and keeping veritably low to rattle the wholes.
In his alternate spell, he accepted a return catch off KL Rahul and nicked off Hardik to the gate keeper, which was verified after a Sri Lanka DRS review.
On a slow, turning pitch, the left- armer got the ball to turn square off the face, as apparent in the Gill redundancy. He also used his arm ball to perfection, dismissing Rohit off a straighter one that didn’t brio.
The pitch was dry. Dunith Wellalage, the allrounder, couldn’t put a bottom wrong. Charith Asalanka, a part- time offie, came to the party. So did India’s more accomplished tweakers. But in a low- scoring affair, it was India’s opening combination with the club and the ball that turned out to be the difference between the sides.
Riding on captain Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill’s 80- run stage and a fiery spell from Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj up front, India broke Sri Lanka’s 13- match unbeaten band with a satisfying 41- run palm. The palm meant it had one bottom in Sunday’s Asia Cup final, with two games remaining in the Super Fours stage.
With a dry face in futurity, conterminous to the one used for India’s clash versus Pakistan that turned out to be a two- day affair, both the brigades had packed their line- ups with baits. Shardul Thakur was therefore replaced with Axar Patel in India’s platoon. Axar did help India cross the 200- run mark with sensible fur towards the end but had it not been for Rohit’s charge in the Powerplay, India could have plodded to get anywhere near the total it entered. He went after his Sri Lanka counterpart Dasun Shanaka, drinking him into the attack with four fours and also swirled Matheesha Pathirana’s short ball over the ropes. But in the 12th over, Shanaka took himself off and brought on Wellalage.
The left- arm incentive struck formerly in each of his first three overs to bring Sri Lanka into the game. He got relieve of Shubman Gill (undone in flight), Virat Kohli (the ball stuck into the pitch, caught at midwicket) and Rohit( dived and kept low) and got Sri Lanka back in the game.
From also on, India plodded to accumulate runs. With Wellalage adding two further to come the youthful Sri Lankan to pick up a five- gate haul in ODIs and Asalanka running through the lower order, India was sailed out for 213.
Bumrah and Siraj also showed their class by striking thrice in the Powerplay. Both were nearly unplayable, with Bumrah picking two. Kuldeep also struck doubly in quick race, including the fluent Sadeera Samarawickrama.
When Ravindra Jadeja seduced an edge off Shanaka to Rohit in the slips, at 99 for six, the game was all but over. But Dhananjaya de Silva set up an suitable supporter in Wellalage to give the largest turnout a hint of stopgap.
But the 63- run cooperation was broken, thanks to Shubman Gill’s sharp catch at mid-on to see de Silva’s back. Kuldeep also ran through the tail to hand India a comfortable palm. Know More Latest Asia Cup News…
