Player of the Match
Player of the Match

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Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

RG Sharma
RG Sharma
53(48) 7x4 - 2x6
Control %82%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 13 runs
  • 2x4 - 0x6
1 0 7 5 12 0 15 13
DN Wellalage
DN Wellalage
42(46) 3x4 - 1x6
Control %71%
  • Productive Shot
  • off drive
  • 9 runs
  • 2x4 - 0x6
4 8 4 3 8 5 5 5

Best performances - Bowlers

DN Wellalage
DN Wellalage
O10
M1
R40
W5
Eco4.00
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W3W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
KIC Asalanka
KIC Asalanka
O9
M1
R18
W4
Eco2.00
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
1W1W

Scorer: Chandan Duorah | Commentator: Madushka Balasuriya

And with that, it's a wrap from us. Join us again on Thursday for Pakistan v Sri Lanka, which will be a virtual semi-final. But for now, on behalf of Karthik and the team, this is Madushka saying goodnight!

Indian_Pus: "Why did the other Sri Lankan batters get out so easily? Because they thought they had Dunith (done it)" --- Great pun to end the night on.

Adi: "Wellalage => He is definitely captain material in the future. Amazing maturity he is showing. Congratulating India when asked a question about his performance. "

Mukesh : "Wellalage, such a composer during his interview. Salute from Indians!!"

Player of the Match goes to Dunith Wellalage for figures of 5 for 40 with the ball and an unbeaten 46-ball 42: "First of all I want to congratulate the Indian team. Unfortunately we lost the match today, but we have one more game to make it to the final. Kuldeep Yadav is a great bowler, but I tried to play my normal game and stay positive. [How were you feeling?] Since a small age I worked hard, had a positive mindset. Want to thank my teammates and supporting staff."

Indian skipper Rohit Sharma gets an award for the most sixes: "It was a good game. For us also to play a game like that under pressure. Challenged a lot of aspects of our game. We definitely want to play on pitches like to see what we can achieve. [Hardik] He's worked hard on his bowling over the last couple of years, and it's pleasing to see how he bowled that spell. Not an easy target to defend. Pitch got slightly better towards the end so we had to hold our nerve and bowl consistently. [Kuldeep?] Again for the past year or so bowling really well. He's worked hard on his rhythm and you can see the results in the last 15 ODIs he's played. He gives us a lot of options. So going forward it's a pretty good sign."

Surya Kumar Yadav takes the award for Catch of the Match

11.15pm Time for the post-match presentation

This is the points table as things stand. Sri Lanka still has a superior net run rate than Pakistan, what that means is that only a win will do for Pakistan on Thursday. A washout means Sri Lanka will make the final.

Stay tuned, we'll have the post-match presentation in a bit

Azweer : "Kuldeep completes 150 ODI wickets..." --- This went under the radar, but a great spell well capped off.

Saksham: "Like common sense prevailed with the shortened innings break, hopefully they maintain consistency by giving Dunith the POTM award even though he ended up on the losing side."

Prashantha: "Dunith Wellalage a Star is born!!"

Dasun Shanaka: "We didn't expect this kind of a wicket, but after the first 10 overs we came into the match brilliantly with the spinners. The luxury of the two genuine batters bowling is great, they've done well in the nets but it was great how they performed. [Wellalage?] After the last game with Bangladesh I sensed he would do something special."

But despite the result, this was a day that belonged to Dunith Wellalage. With the ball he grabbed a five-for, and with the bat he nearly stole the win for his side. He also took an excellent catch to complete a tremendous all-round performance.

10.56pm So India too good for Sri Lanka in the end, in what turned out to be quite the low-scoring thriller. The margin of victory doesn't tell the whole story, not by a long shot, as Sri Lanka had India genuinely worried when Wellalage and Dhananjaya were going strong in their 63-run 7th wicket stand. But once the latter fell, the tail just couldn't hang on, on what was a difficult surface at the Premadasa and Kuldeep came in to clean house.

41.3
W
Kuldeep Yadav to Pathirana, OUT, And that's that! Wellalage is stranded at the other end as India win by 41 runs! This was tossed up as Pathirana looks to sweep. Ends up going between his legs and crashing into the stumps

M Pathirana b Kuldeep Yadav 0 (3m 2b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00

41.2
0
Kuldeep Yadav to Pathirana, no run, Keeps low, turns in from outside off. Does well to keep this out

Pathirana in as last man, can he get Wellalage on strike?

41.1
W
Kuldeep Yadav to Rajitha, OUT, And another one bites the dust! This was just too good, for most batters, let alone a no.9. Googly pitching on middle and leg, and then turning sharply past the back foot defence to clip the top of off. Quality

CAK Rajitha b Kuldeep Yadav 1 (5m 2b 0x4 0x6) SR: 50.00

INDfan: "I can hear only Hindi movie songs in the background at the stadium. Are Hindi and Bollywood so popular in SL?" --- Yes, quite.

END OF OVER:
41 | 2 Runs 1 Wkt | SL: 172/8 (42 runs required from 54 balls, RR: 4.19, RRR: 4.66)

  • Kasun Rajitha1 (1b)
  • Dunith Wellalage42 (46b)
  • Hardik Pandya5-0-14-1
  • Ravindra Jadeja10-0-33-2
40.6
1
Pandya to Rajitha, 1 run, full on the pads, worked towards midwicket for one. India happy to allow that single as it keeps Rajitha on strike

Waqas: "Catching "dun" is not only difficult its impossible. Dun ko pakarna mushkil hi nahi na-mumkin hai"

40.5
W
Pandya to Theekshana, OUT, Fantastic take at mid-on! And Theekshana is gone! Theekshana looks to work this onside and ends up chipping it in the air to the right of mid-on, where SKY goes full stretch to his right and grabs it with his right hand. They go upstairs to check, but it's clean. Fantastic work!

M Theekshana c sub (SA Yadav) b Pandya 2 (18m 14b 0x4 0x6) SR: 14.28

40.4
0
Pandya to Theekshana, no run, again gets nicely behind the line, and defends

Chiru: "We are missing an off spinner especially against a team packed with lefties. Ashwin would have ran through them. " --- Ashwin would've been a nightmare on this track.

Sri Lanka 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st7FDM KarunaratneP Nissanka
2nd18FDM KarunaratneBKG Mendis
3rd0FDM KarunaratneS Samarawickrama
4th43S SamarawickramaKIC Asalanka
5th5DM de SilvaKIC Asalanka
6th26MD ShanakaDM de Silva
7th63DM de SilvaDN Wellalage
8th9M TheekshanaDN Wellalage
9th1CAK RajithaDN Wellalage
10th0DN WellalageM Pathirana

Asia Cup (ODI)

Super Four
TeamMWLPTNRR
IND32141.753
SL3214-0.134
BAN3122-0.463
PAK3122-1.283
Group A
TeamMWLPTNRR
PAK21034.76
IND21031.028
NEP2020-3.572
Group B
TeamMWLPTNRR
SL22040.594
BAN21120.373
AFG2020-0.91