Player of the Match
Player of the Match

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Best performances - Batsmen

SA Yadav
SA Yadav
50(34) 5x4 - 2x6
Control %67%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 8 runs
  • 1x4 - 0x6
1 4 5 7 6 1 16 10
S Dhawan
S Dhawan
46(36) 4x4 - 1x6
Control %75%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 8 runs
  • 0x4 - 0x6
0 0 1 12 15 2 7 9

Best performances - Bowlers

B Kumar
B Kumar
O3.3
M0
R22
W4
Eco6.28
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
1W1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
PVD Chameera
O4
M0
R24
W2
Eco6.00
RHB
OFFLEG
1W1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Match Details

Toss

Sri Lanka , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Series result

India led the 3-match series 1-0

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

20.00 start, First Session 20.00-21.30, Interval 21.30-21.50, Second Session 21.50-23.20

Match days

25 July 2021 - night match (20-over match)

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Scorer: @Thilak_Rama | Commentator: Hemant Brar

That's all from our side for this game. See you soon.

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. I think only 5% scope of improvement. 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. It's very hard to pick Varun, even I find it difficult when I am facing him in the nets.

Dasun Shanaka: I think 164 was chaseable on this wickets. 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 is the Player of the Match. "I played ODI after a couple of months, so you take some time get into the rhythm," he says. "It was a good batting wicket but there was some help for bowlers too."

Caradhras: "Should be Bhuvi, will be SKY."

Vinayak: "POTM: Chahal "

Nilesh Sinha: "SKY should be the MoM"

Who do you think should be the Player of the Match?

Vinay: "6 wickets for 15 runs. Sri Lanka's inexperience showing up.."

Arunabh : "The match was much closer than what scorecard suggests. "

"The last wicket was Bhuvneshwar Kumar's 200th T20 wicket," Sampath says. "He currently has 49 wickets from 49 T20I matches."

11.30pm So, a total that looked a bit under par at the halfway stage proved to be 38 too many for Sri Lanka. At 104 for 4 after 14 overs, they were in the game despite Bandara managing only 9 from 19 balls. But Chahal bowled a three-run 15th over and Chahar dismissed Asalanka and Hasaranga in the next to turn the game towards India. Incoming batters then couldn't nail the big hits and kept losing their wickets. In the end, Sri Lanka could last only 18.3 overs.

Bhuvneshwar finished with 4 for 22 from 3.3 overs, Chahar had 2 for 24 from his three and Chahal 1 for 19 from four.

18.3
W
Kumar to Chameera, OUT, another wicket for Bhuvneshwar as India go 1-0 up. Fuller outside off and Chameera goes for a big hit. He makes the connection alright but it's a big ground. An easy catch for Krunal at deep midwicket

PVD Chameera c KH Pandya b Kumar 1 (8m 3b 0x4 0x6) SR: 33.33

18.2
1
Kumar to Dananjaya, 1 run, length ball around off and middle, hits it towards long-on
18.1
W
Kumar to Udana, OUT, fuller outside off, Udana looks to go over long-on but doesn't get the distance. Was a slower one and away from him. Long-on takes an simple catch

I Udana c Yadav b Kumar 1 (8m 2b 0x4 0x6) SR: 50.00

40 required from two overs

END OF OVER:
18 | 3 Runs 1 Wkt | SL: 125/8 (40 runs required from 12 balls, RR: 6.94, RRR: 20.00)

  • Dushmantha Chameera1 (2b)
  • Isuru Udana1 (1b)
  • Varun Chakravarthy4-0-28-1
  • Bhuvneshwar Kumar3-0-21-2
17.6
0
Varun to Chameera, no run, length ball outside off, pushes at it and gets beaten

Rohit B: "I'd say that it was very brave to keep Varun for the 17th or 18th over. Would have been really difficult for him if Asalanka was still on the crease. It's worked though, Bhuvi and Chahar have got the wickets and now he can put pressure back on the batters. "

17.5
1
Varun to Chameera, 1 run, length ball around off, swiped towards deep square leg for a couple. Oh, Chameera ran one short there. So only one gets added to the total

Chameera with Sri Lanka needing 41 off 14

17.4
W
Varun to Shanaka, OUT, an appeal for stumping. A length ball outside off, Shanaka pushes at it and gets beaten by the carrom ball. Loses his balance and his front foot comes off the ground. Exactly at that moment, Kishan breaks the stumps. Don't think he actually waited for the foot to be in the air

MD Shanaka st †Ishan Kishan b Varun 16 (26m 14b 0x4 1x6) SR: 114.28

Sri Lanka 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st23M BhanukaWIA Fernando
2nd25DM de SilvaWIA Fernando
3rd2KIC AsalankaWIA Fernando
4th40KIC AsalankaKNA Bandara
5th21MD ShanakaKIC Asalanka
6th0MD ShanakaPW Hasaranga
7th11MD ShanakaC Karunaratne
8th2I UdanaMD Shanaka
9th1I UdanaPVD Chameera
10th1PVD ChameeraA Dananjaya