Sri Lanka cut the World Cup ticket, clash with India in Wankhede

World Cup 2023: After 4 months, 12 years old memories will be fresh again at Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium. Once again, Team India will be seen in the World Cup at Wankhede Stadium and once again Sri Lanka will be in front of it. The same Sri Lanka, which won the title after 28 years by defeating Team India in the final on April 2 at Wankhede itself, 12 years ago. Sri Lanka beat Zimbabwe in the World Cup Qualifier to seal their ticket for the World Cup and also confirmed the India-Sri Lanka match.

Sri Lanka got the first entry in the World Cup 2023 through the qualifier tournament being played in Zimbabwe. The match between Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe in Bulawayo on Sunday was important for getting entry in the World Cup. The winning team in this match was to get an entry in the World Cup 2023 and Sri Lanka did this amazingly on the basis of a one-sided victory by 9 wickets.

Complete domination, one-sided victory

Sri Lankan bowlers have consistently prevented the opposition batsmen from scoring big in this tournament and it continued here as well. This time the Sri Lankan team, while bowling first, bundled out Zimbabwe for just 165 runs. For Sri Lanka, spinner Mahish Teekshana took 4 wickets in his name. Shaun Williams scored 56 runs for Zimbabwe, but apart from him, the rest of the batsmen could not contribute much.

Such a small score was not going to be much difficult for Sri Lanka and it happened. Opener Pathum Nissanka played an excellent century of 101 runs in just 102 balls and won the team by 9 wickets in just 33.1 overs. Apart from Nissanka, Dimuth Karunaratne shared 30 runs and Kusal Mendis shared 25 runs.

Special collision after 4597 days

This victory of Sri Lanka has made it so clear that the Indian team will once again play against them at Wankhede, just like the 2 April 2011 World Cup final. This is because Sri Lanka will reach the World Cup as Qualifier-2. The Indian team will face the Qualifier-2 team on 2 November. That is, after a total of 4597 days, India and Sri Lanka will clash at the Wankhede Stadium in the World Cup.

Zimbabwe-Who in Scotland?

As far as the second team in the World Cup is concerned, there will be a fight between Zimbabwe and Scotland for this. Zimbabwe has 6 points, while Scotland has 4 points. Although Scotland's run rate is more than Zimbabwe. There is a fight between the two on July 4. Whoever wins this match will go to the World Cup.