Player of the Match
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Best performances - Batsmen

E Lewis
E Lewis
102(61) 9x4 - 4x6
Control %72%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 23 runs
  • 3x4 - 1x6
8 2 0 5 21 14 37 15
BKG Mendis
BKG Mendis
56(22) 9x4 - 1x6
Control %95%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 27 runs
  • 4x4 - 1x6
0 4 10 1 0 11 7 23

Best performances - Bowlers

RL Chase
RL Chase
O2
M0
R20
W1
Eco10.00
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
SE Rutherford
SE Rutherford
O2
M0
R27
W1
Eco13.50
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W

Match Details

Toss

West Indies , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Player Of The Series

Series result

Sri Lanka won the 3-match series 2-1

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

14.30 start, First Session 14.30-18.00, Interval 18.00-18.30, Second Session 18.30-22.00

Match days

26 October 2024 - day/night match (50-over match)

ODI debut

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Scorer: Sudeep Poojar | Commentator: Abhimanyu Bose

END OF OVER:
22 | 16 Runs | WI: 196/2 | RR: 8.90

  • Evin Lewis102 (61b)
  • Sherfane Rutherford50 (26b)
  • Asitha Fernando5-0-39-1
  • Dilshan Madushanka5-0-50-1

11.50pm Sri Lanka players line up with the trophy, having won the series, but it will of course be the West Indies players who will be the happier bunch tonight. It's the end of a wet, rain-marred ODI series, and with that, West Indies' tour of Sri Lanka. West Indies win their first ODI of 2024, and they end an 11-match losing-streak in Sri Lanka. Madushka's report is in, and you can get a recap of today's action there. For now, on behalf of Sudeep, Thilak and Madushka, it's Abhimanyu saying good night!

11.40pm Time for the presentation ceremony, which begins with Roshan Abeysinghe thanking the groundstaff for their work to make sure we could have a game despite it raining for the better parts of five hours. Truly, they did do a commendable job.

Asalanka: "I am very pleased with my performance and I think the whole team performed really well. [Does captaincy affect his batting?] To me it doesn't matter, but I am the No. 5 batter in the team and I have a job to do. When I go into bat, I don't think that I am the captain. I just want to handle the situation, and I don't take [captaincy] pressure. I think the main thing is momentum is on our side. Few areas to improve in. I hope to do well in the next series as well. Hopefully we can stick to a similar [bowling] lineup going forward."

Today's winning captain, Shai Hope: "Very big job for us. Like I said at the toss, we had something to play for today. We didn't have the best game in the field, but I was very happy with the way that we batted. I think most teams don't come to Sri Lanka and beat them at their home, so we have to take positives. [On Evin Lewis] He's an amazing player. It's great to see him back. He picked up where he left off. I am happy he scored some runs and I hope he can take that form into the next series. [On the shortened game helping Lewis] Yeah I think West Indies play the shorter format the best but Lewis is a great striker of the ball and it was great to see him. We have been playing good cricket, we need to be more consistent."

Charith Asalanka is the player of the series!

Evin Lewis is the player of the match, but he is injured so Shai Hope comes out to receive the trophy on his behalf.

11.30pm A semi-injured Evin Lews and the in-form Sherfane Rutherford have helped West Indies end this tour with a moral victory. Lewis, playing his first ODI since 2021, scored his fifth ODI century, and was limping as he hit the winning shot. Rutherford continued his tremendous form with yet another half-century. They were given a revised target of 195 after rain interrupted Sri Lanka's innings 17 overs in. Sri Lanka did really well in the six odd overs they had to bat after the restart, with Nissanka hitting a fifty and Kusal Mendis also getting to one in just 19 balls. But the West Indies batters were better today against Sri Lanka's spinners, and Lewis' experience at the top of the order paid off as he batted through, despite rolling his ankle over while running, to make sure the five dropped catches in Sri Lanka's innings did not come back to haunt West Indies. Stick with us for the presentation ceremony.

Prashant: "Despite Sri Lanka taking the series 2-1, the player of the series must undoubtedly go to Sherfane Rutherford."

John : "Rutherford. Man of the series" He's definitely a contender, but so is Asalanka you can argue. But yeah, I'd also give it to Rutherford, really. Played some big knocks under a lot of pressure!

21.6
6
AM Fernando to Lewis, SIX, Lewis clears the ground for a century he'll remember so fondly! West Indies win in thrilling fashion and will leave this ODI series with a win after all!

Now can Lewis get to his century?

21.5
1
AM Fernando to Rutherford, 1 run, Full on leg, clipped away through midwicket and that's three fifties in three ODIs on this tour for Sherfane Rutherford. Great knock again from him. And he will hope this one comes in a winning cause!
21.4
6
AM Fernando to Rutherford, SIX, Muscled over long-on Low full toss outside leg and Rutherford is batting as well as he probably ever has in his career and he makes no mistake in putting that away down the ground

KATRavinath: "Charith's last over was the clutch for this chase, could be more nailbiting, if Kamindu held that catch."

21.3
2
AM Fernando to Rutherford, 2 runs, Full outside leg, and he drives it hard, but can't beat sweeper cover. Still picks up two there does Rutherford

Amogh: "Lewis needs 5 to complete his century. Rutherford needs 9 to complete his Fifty. West Indies needs 15 to win..can both batters complete their respective milestones? "

21.2
0
AM Fernando to Rutherford, no run, Nails the yorker on leg and Rutherford can only jam it back out to the bowler. Good stuff from Asitha!
21.1
1
AM Fernando to Lewis, 1 run, Yorker outside off at 138kph, dug out to long-off

This looks like West Indies' game now, doesn't it? Can Asitha Fernando stop that from happening though?

West Indies 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st36E LewisBA King
2nd72E LewisSD Hope
3rd88E LewisSE Rutherford