Sri Lanka beat India by 7 wickets to Sri Lanka win the T20I Series by 2-1.
The third and last match of the T20 series was played yesterday between Sri Lanka and India at R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, in which Sri Lanka beat India by 7 wickets to win the T20 Series by 2-1.
India batted first after winning the toss, scored just 81 runs for losing 8 wickets in the prescribed 20 overs, India started the inning very badly from beginning to end, Kuldeep Yadav scored 23 runs in 28 balls, Bhuvneshwar Kumar 16 runs in 32 balls, Rituraj Gaikwad 14 runs in 10 balls, Devdutt Patikal 9 runs, Nitish Rana 6 runs, Rahul Chahar 5 runs, Chetan Sakaria 5 runs, Shikhar Dhawan, Sanju Samson, and Varun Chakraborty dismissed without scoring. In this way, India batted first after winning the toss, wickets keep falling one after another, end of the result, the entire team could score just 81 runs in prescribed 20 overs, and set a very easy target of 82 runs for Sri Lanka.
Sri Lankan bowlers performed brilliant bowling, Wanindu Hasaranga took 4 wickets for just 9 runs in his spell, Dasun Shanaka took 2 wickets for 20 runs, Dushmantha Chameera, and Ramesh Mendis got 1-1 wicket.
Sri Lanka chasing 82 runs in the second inning, they achieved the target very easily by losing just 3 wickets in the third ball of the 15th over and won the match by 7 wickets. Sri Lanka started well, Avishka Fernando and Minod Bhanuka came to start the inning and given a good start, the first wicket of the inning fall in 23 runs, Avishka Fernando was dismissed for 12 runs in 18 balls, the next batsman Sadeera Samarawickrama came to bat, and played well with Minod Bhanuka, the second wicket was fall in 35 runs, Minod Bhanuka dismissed for 18 runs in 27 balls, followed by Dhananjaya de Silva came to bat, and played well with Sadeera Samarawickrama, the third wicket dismissed in 56b runs, Sadeera Samarawickrama dismissed just for 6 runs in 13 balls, the next batsman Wanindu Hasaranga come to bat, and handled the inning with Dhananjay de Silva and took the match to the victory, Wanindu Hasaranga played a very quick unbeaten inning of 14 runs in 9 balls, and Dhananjaya de Silva also played a brilliant unbeaten victory inning of 23 runs in 20 balls. In this way, Sri Lanka chasing 82 runs in the second inning, achieved the target very easily after losing just 3 wickets in the third ball of the 15th over and won the match by 7 wickets, and with this victory, Sri Lanka also won the series by 2-1.
Indian bowler Rahul Chahar took 3 wickets for 15 runs.
Sri Lankan all-rounder Wanindu Hasaranga was elected Best Player of the Match, he took 4 wickets for just 9 runs in his spell, and also played a very quick unbeaten inning of 14 runs in just 9 balls.
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