Excellent performance by Sri Lankan spinners, the entire Indian team piled on 213 runs

In the Super Four stage of the Asia Cup, Sri Lankan spinners controlled the Indian batsmen, India set a target of 214 runs to Sri Lanka for victory in the important match.

The Indian team was bowled out for 213 runs in the 50th over, captain Rohit Sharma was outstanding with 53 runs.

India won the toss and decided to bat first once morest Sri Lanka which apparently did not prove correct, the Indian batsmen were trapped by the Sri Lankan spinners, all 10 wickets remained in the name of the spinners.

Opener Shibman Gill was dismissed for 19 runs, Virat Kohli for 3, captain Rohit Sharma for 53 and KL Rahul for 39. Apart from Ishan who scored 33 runs, no Indian batsman might score more runs once morest the Sri Lankan spinners.

After 47 overs, the match was stopped for a short time due to rain, but following some time the game was restarted, but the entire Indian team was out in 49.1 overs.

This is the first time in the history of Asia Cup that a team’s spinners have taken all the wickets of the opposing team.

On behalf of Sri Lanka, young spinner Donath Villalaj dismissed 5 players, spinner Isa Lanka took 4 wickets while spinner Mahesh Thakshana got one wicket.

Also, this is the first time that the entire Indian team was dismissed by the spinners in an ODI match.

Speaking following the toss, Indian cricket team captain Rohit Sharma said that playing on the third consecutive day is a challenge.

On this occasion, Sri Lankan cricket team captain Dasan Shanaka said that we would have batted first on this pitch, the young players of the team have now become seniors.

This match being played in Colombo is very important, in the points table at the moment India is first, Sri Lanka is second while Pakistan is at third place.

India will qualify for the Asia Cup final following winning today’s match, while if Sri Lanka win this match, they will only have to beat Pakistan to reach the final as their run rate will be better than Pakistan’s. .

If Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by a big margin, the decision to reach the final will be based on the net run rate.