Sri Lanka Beat Number.1 ODIs Team India in Three Years Right arm Legbreak Bowler Jeffrey Vandersay take six Wickets against Mighty India.
India vs Sri Lanka 2nd ODIs Scorecard match was being played in Colombo at R Premadassa Stadium. What happened on the pitch of this ground that ODI number 1 could not score 240 and Sri Lanka’s spinner Jeffrey Vandersay who is a right arm Legbreak took 6 wickets against India.
Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat first and while batting first, Sri Lanka made 240 runs in which their wickets fell early and the lower order batsman Kamindu Mendis and his partner Dunith Wellallage both made a partnership of 72 runs which helped Sri Lanka to put up a great total. You can see below India vs Sri Lanka 2nd ODIs Scorecard.
1st Innings Scorecards
Sri Lanka 240/9 (50)
- Pathum Nissanka – 0
- Avishka Fernando – 40
- Kusal Mendis – 30
- Samarawickrama – 14
- Charith Asalanka – 25
- Janith Liyanage – 12
- Dunith Wellalage – 39
- Kamindu Mendis – 40
- Dananjaya – 15
- Vandersay – 1
Sri Lanka reached a winning total thanks to excellent batting by Kamindu Mendis and Wellalage.
Washington Sundar took 3 wickets in which Sundar dismissed Avishka Fernando and Kusal Mendis along with Sri Lankan captain Aslanka. Kuldeep Yadav took 2 wickets in which he dismissed Janith Liyanage and Dunith Vellalaage. Apart from this, Muhammad Siraj took 1 wicket and Axar Patel took 1 wicket.
Rohit Sharma came in the 2nd innings and as soon as he came he started playing in his style, he started playing like he always plays and played a captaincy innings, scoring 64 runs in 44 balls and gave a good start to India. Shubman Gill was with him who was playing very slow but he also played a good innings, scoring 35 runs in 44 balls. Rohit Sharma gets out at 97 runs of Team India. Vandersay takes his first wicket in the form of Rohit Sharma, after that Shubman Gill gets out after scoring 35 runs, then Team India was at 116/2 overs 17.1.
After that Virat Kohli also got out after scoring 14 runs and the one who got everyone out was only one Sri Lankan bowler whose name was Vandersay. You can see below India vs Sri Lanka 2nd ODIs Scorecard.
2nd Innings Scorecards
- Rohit Sharma – 64
- Shubman Gill – 35
- Virat Kohli – 14
- Shivam Dube – 0
- Axar Patel – 44
- Shreyas Iyer – 7
- KL Rahul – 0
- W Sunder – 15
- Kuldeep Y – 7
- M Siraj – 4
- Arshdeep S – 3
Sri Lankan spinner Jeffrey Vandersay got the Player of the Match award who took 6 wickets and conceded 33 runs in 10 overs and this was the best performance of his life. He took 6 wickets against a team which is considered to be the strongest team in the world. Now it is expected that Team India will give a good performance in the next match and will level this ODI series 1-1.
Perhaps in the next match you may see changes in the Indian team. Rishabh Pant may replace KL Rahul and Riyan Parag may make his international ODI debut in place of Shivam Dubey. In bowling, you may see Khaleel Ahmed in place of Washington Sundar. This can be a possibility.
Sri Lanka defeated Team India, which is number 1 in the ODI rankings, by 32 runs in the ODI match in which Sir Lanka’s spinner named Vandersay took 6 wickets against Team India by giving 32 runs in his 10 overs, who made his international debut against Pakistan in 120 runs on June 30, 2015. He made his international debut in the same ground where the second ODI match between Team India and Sri Lanka was played, Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.