Sunday , November 24 2024

27-year-old record broken, Sri Lanka beat India in the third ODI and won the series

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Sri Lanka created history by defeating India by 110 runs in the third ODI. Along with this, the team also achieved the feat of defeating India in an ODI series after 27 runs. The team last won an ODI series against India in 1997. The biggest reason for India's series loss was poor batting. Along with this, the team also lost due to Sri Lanka's excessive experiments and spin bowling. Team India has lost the first series under the leadership of coach Gautam Gambhir. Earlier, the team defeated Sri Lanka 3-0 in the T20 series.

India vs Sri Lanka 3rd ODI

After tying the first match, Sri Lanka won the second match by 32 runs. Sri Lanka won their first ODI series against India in 1997. Chasing a target of 249 runs on a spin-friendly pitch at the R Premadasa Stadium, India were bowled out for 138 in 26.1 overs thanks to the magic of Vellalaghe, Jeffrey Vandersay and Mahish Theekshan, who took five wickets each. Sri Lanka were bowled out for the first time in their careers.

Captain Rohit Sharma scored the highest 35 runs for India. Apart from him, Washington Sundar scored 30 and Virat Kohli scored 20 runs. On the other hand, Avishka Fernando played a brilliant innings of 96 runs in 102 balls for Sri Lanka. Apart from this, he shared a partnership of 89 runs for the first wicket with Pathum Nissanka and 82 runs for the second wicket with Kusal Mendis. With the help of which Sri Lanka scored a strong score of 248 runs for the loss of 7 wickets.

India vs Sri Lanka 3rd ODI

Let us tell you that Riyan Parag, who is making his ODI debut for India, took three wickets for 54 runs in 9 overs and tried to bring India back. Kuldeep Yadav got 1 wicket for 36 runs, Axar Patel got 1 wicket for 41 runs and Washington Sundar got 1 wicket for 29 runs.