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First ODI: Dhawan, Kohli beam India to 9-wicket win over Sri Lanka
- Updated: August 21, 2017
Indian cricketer Shikhar Dhawan celebrates after he scored a century (100 runs) during a initial One Day International (ODI) cricket compare between Sri Lanka and India during a Rangiri Dambulla International Cricket Stadium. Pic/AFP
Power-packed innings from Shikhar Dhawan and skipper Virat Kohli guided India to a gentle nine-wicket feat over Sri Lanka in their initial One Day International (ODI) during a Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium here on Sunday.
Dhawan slammed 132 runs in 90 balls while Kohli crushed 82 runs off 70 deliveries. Both players fake a 197-run partnership for a second wicket, a tip in Sri Lanka opposite Sri Lanka.
It all went good for India in this match. After a small bit of punishment initially, their bowlers bounced behind in character to shorten a hosts for 216 and afterwards Dhawan and Kohli practical themselves ideally to follow down a sum with 21.1 overs (127 balls) remaining. This also helped them to record their biggest win, in terms of overs to spare, for a aim of over 200.
Coming in to follow a comparatively low total, openers Rohit Sharma and Dhawan started a innings on a solid note though Rohit unsuccessful to support a Delhi batsman for prolonged as he was discharged in a fifth over with hardly 23 runs on a board.
Incoming batsman and skipper Kohli, along with Dhawan, afterwards paced adult a innings by thrashing a Sri Lankan bowlers all around a park. It was raining bounds in a belligerent and stopped usually after they reached a target. Dhawan slammed 20 bounds and 3 sixes while Kohli strike 10 bounds and one six.
Earlier, Sri Lanka squandered a good start to concede Indian spinners to rebound behind in character and shorten a hosts to 216.
For Sri Lanka, openers Niroshan Dickwella (64) and Anjelo Mathews (36 not out) were a vital contributors to a cause.
Unlike a Test series, that a hosts mislaid 0-3, Sri Lanka started a singular overs debate on a good note as their tip sequence stood adult to a occasion. The tip 3 batsmen confirmed a ideal run-rate compartment a halfway-mark of a allotted 50 overs.
India’s ploy to use pacer Jasprit Bumrah as a initial change also unsuccessful as all-rounder Hardik Pandya, who was brought in for Bumrah, was crushed by a Sri Lankan batman. Pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar also unsuccessful to click this time.
But soon, after 12 overs, when a spinners were introduced, it was India gaining a top corner as a Sri Lankan batsman found it formidable to tackle them.
After Indian skipper Virat Kohli won a toss and put Sri Lanka in to bat, Dickwella and Danushka Gunathilaka gave a ideal start to their group as both fake a 74-run partnership in 14 overs before a latter was sent behind to a pavilion by leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal (74/1).
Unperturbed by a tumble of Gunathilaka’s wicket, incoming batsman Kusal Mendis (36) along with Dickwella continued a gait and built adult a 65-run mount for a second wicket. But usually when things seemed good in a middle, Dickwella was adjudged leg before wicket off Kedar Jadhav in a 25th over (139/2).
It was usually after Dickwella’s wicket that a Sri Lankans mislaid a tract and started losing their wickets during unchanging intervals. Apart from a top-three batsmen, no other actor stood adult to a Indian vigour and went behind to a pavilion one by one.
Anjelo Mathews (36 not out) somehow managed to hang during a wicket though miss of support from a other finish resulted in a low sum for a hosts.
Mathews apart, other middle-order batsmen Upul Tharanga (13), Chamara Kapugedera (1) Wanidu Hasaranga (2) scored a sum of 16 runs only.
Lower-order players Thisara Perera (0), Lakshan Sandakan (5) and Lasith Malinga (8) attempted to make adult for a middle-order fall though unsuccessful and thus, after a ideal start, a Islanders were limited to 216.
For India, left-arm spinner Axar Patel scalped 3 wickets while Bumrah, Chahal and Jadhav took dual wickets each.
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