sri lanka vs india 2017:india beat sri lanka by nine wickets in dambulla ODI
New Delhi / Damambula: Team India’s victory in the Sri Lankan field is continuing with the help of the bowlers’ unrivaled bowling and Shikhar Dhawan’s impressive century. After cleansing 3-0 in the Test series, the Indian team has made a winning start in the five-match ODI series. The first ODI match being played at the Rangari International Stadium, India won by 9 wickets.
Shikhar Dhawan and captain Virat Kohli proved to be the dwarf and achieved the target in 28.5 overs with a modest total of 216 runs from Sri Lanka.Simultaneously, this is also the biggest win in terms of balls, following the Indian cricket team’s goal of more than 200 runs. Team India achieved this goal in just 173 balls and set the record.
Team India’s start to bat in response to 216 runs is not good. Rohit Sharma, who has been running from the last few innings, continued the series against the poor form of Sri Lanka. He returned to the pavilion after making 4 runs in the 5th over of the innings. But nothing went in favor of the Sri Lankan team before and after this only wicket.
Together with Shikhar Dhawan, Captain Virat Kohli played such a wonderful partnership that the Sri Lankan team did not break it. Both the batsmen shared a partnership of 197 runs in just 143 balls and gave the team a one-sided victory.
Shikhar Dhawan scored 128 runs in 89 balls playing a superb innings. During this, he also made 20 boundaries and three sixes. While captain Kohli scored 82 runs with his 44th half-century of his career. In his innings, 10 fours and one six came in.
Indian spinners also diluted the conditions of the Sri Lankan team to 216 runs before the Indian batsmen were rocking. They have learned from the Sri Lankan batsmen about how they get lost on the way of reaching the floor. After adding 139 runs for the first two wickets, the Sri Lankan team was scattered in such a way that the whole team was all-out by making 216 runs. In the Sri Lankan innings, Nirvana Dikewala scored the highest score of 64 runs.
The Indian bowlers have completely proved the right decision to bowl first by winning the toss of captain Virat Kohli.
The entire Sri Lankan team looked dashed in front of the Indian bowlers, in the end Mathews reached the team score of 200 runs. But on the other end, they could not reach the team due to lack of any support, and the whole team was all-out by making 216 runs. Mathews scored 36 not out.
For India, letters Patel took 3 wickets, Jadhav, Bumrah and Chahal took 2-2 wickets. While 1 player was run out.
By winning this match, the Indian team now has gone 1-0 in the ODI series.
