IND vs SL / Team India devastated by Sri Lankan spin tsunami, suffered a crushing defeat in the second ODI

Sri Lanka defeated India by 32 runs in the second ODI. Leg spinner Jeffrey Vandersay, who took 6 wickets, was the player of the match. He sent India's top-6 batsmen to the pavilion within 50 runs and became a major reason for the victory. Sri Lanka has taken a 1-0 lead in the series. The first ODI was tied, the third match will be played on August 7. On Sunday in Colombo, Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat

Vikrant Shekhawat : Aug 04, 2024, 10:21 PM

IND vs SL: Sri Lanka defeated India by 32 runs in the second ODI. Leg spinner Jeffrey Vandersay, who took 6 wickets, was the player of the match. He sent India's top-6 batsmen to the pavilion within 50 runs and became a major reason for the victory. Sri Lanka has taken a 1-0 lead in the series. The first ODI was tied, the third match will be played on August 7. On Sunday in Colombo, Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat first. The team scored 240 runs for the loss of 9 wickets. The team had a partnership of 70+ runs twice, which brought the score close to 250. Washington Sundar took 3 wickets and Kuldeep Yadav took 2 wickets from India.

Captain Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill made an opening partnership of 97 runs from India. Rohit Sharma scored 64 runs. From here, leg spinner Jeffrey Vandersay pushed India on the backfoot. Captain Charith Aslanka took the last 3 wickets and India was all out for 208 in 42.2 overs.

India scattered in run chase

Chasing the target of 241 runs, India made an opening partnership of 97 runs. Then came leg spinner Jeffrey Vandersay and pushed India on the backfoot. He sent the top-6 batsmen of the team to the pavilion and the score became 147/6. India could not recover from here, in the end Sri Lankan captain Charith Aslanka took 3 wickets. One batsman was run out and the team was all out after scoring 208 runs.

Rohit Sharma scored 64 runs from India. Axar Patel scored 44, Shubman Gill scored 35, Washington Sundar scored 15 and Virat Kohli scored 14 runs. 2 batsmen got out on zero, the rest could not even cross the 10 run mark.

Sri Lanka won the second ODI

The second match of the ongoing three-match ODI series between India and Sri Lanka was played in Colombo on Sunday. In this match, Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat first and scored 240 runs for nine wickets in 50 overs. In reply, the Indian team could score only 208 runs in 42.2 overs and got all out. Sri Lanka won this match by 32 runs and took a 0-1 lead in the series. Earlier, the first match played on August 2 was tied. Now India will be eyeing to draw the series. The third match will be played on August 7 in which Team India will want to win at all costs.

India got a target of 241 runs

Sri Lanka, batting first, has given India a target of 241 runs. Sri Lanka scored 240 runs for nine wickets in 50 overs on the basis of brilliant innings of Avishka Fernando and Kamindu Mendis. For India, Washington Sundar took the maximum three wickets for 30 runs in 10 overs, while wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav took two wickets. At the same time, Mohammad Siraj and Axar Patel got one wicket each. Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat first, but Mohammad Siraj gave India early success by dismissing Pathum Nissanka on the very first ball. Sri Lanka, however, was handled by Avishka Fernando and Kusal Mendis who shared a 74-run partnership for the second wicket. However, Indian bowlers were successful in taking wickets in the middle overs. In the end, Dunith Welalage and Kamindu Mendis played good innings and took Sri Lanka to a challenging score.