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India defeated Sri Lanka by 317 runs in the third ODI played at the Greenfield International Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram. This is the biggest win in ODI history by a margin of runs. Earlier this record was in the name of New Zealand. They beat Ireland by 290 runs in 2008. At the same time, the previous record of the Indian team was a 257-run win, which they achieved against Bermuda in 2007. Virat Kohli, who scored a brilliant century, was declared the player of the match. In this series, he scored 283 runs in three matches with the help of two centuries. For this, he was also chosen as the Player of the Series.
Batting first, India scored 390 runs in 50 overs losing five wickets. Shubman Gill played 116 runs and Virat Kohli played an unbeaten inning of 166 runs. In reply, the Sri Lankan team scored 73 runs losing nine wickets in 22 overs. Ashen Bandara could not come on the field due to injury. In this way Team India won by 317 runs.
India clean sweep Sri Lanka for the fourth time
India also made a clean sweep of Sri Lanka 3-0. India won the first ODI by 67 runs and the second ODI by four wickets. For the fourth time, Team India has made a clean sweep of Sri Lanka in the ODI series. Earlier in 1982/83, the Indian team defeated Sri Lanka 3–0 in a three-match series. After this, Team India won 5-0 in the five-match ODI series on Sri Lanka’s tour of India in 2014/15. At the same time, in 2017 too, India won the five-match ODI series 5-0.
Shubman-Rohit gave a great start
Electing to bat first after winning the toss, the Indian team got off to a great start. Captain Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill added 95 runs in 92 balls for the first wicket. Rohit misses out on his half-century. He got out after scoring 42 runs in 49 balls. In his innings, the captain hit two fours and three sixes. After this, Shubman along with Kohli took India to a strong position. Both played a partnership of 131 runs in 110 balls for the second wicket.
Shubman scored second century of ODI career
Shubman Gill, playing an excellent inning, scored the second century of his ODI career in 89 balls. This was his first international century in India. Earlier, Shubman had scored a century against Zimbabwe at his home. Shubman-Kohli’s partnership was broken by Kasun Rajita. He clean bowled Shubman. The young opener played an innings of 116 off 97 balls. In his innings, Shubman hit 14 fours and two sixes.
Kohli scored a brilliant century
After this, Kohli took over the innings of Team India along with Shreyas Iyer. Both played a partnership of 108 runs in 71 balls for the third wicket. Meanwhile, Kohli scored a century in 85 balls. This was the 46th century of his ODI career. Kohli is now only three centuries behind Sachin Tendulkar in terms of most hundreds in ODIs. Sachin holds the record for most centuries in this format. He had scored 49 centuries. This was Kohli’s 74th international century. In this case also he is just behind Sachin.
Sachin has 100 international centuries to his name. At the same time, it was the second century of this series. Kohli scored 113 runs in the first ODI of the series. This was his third century in the last four ODI innings. Before this series, Kohli had also scored 113 runs in the last ODI against Bangladesh. After scoring the century, Kohli became more aggressive. He thrashed the Sri Lankan bowlers fiercely. Team India got a third blow in the form of Shreyas. He got out after scoring 38 runs in 32 balls. Shreyas is dismissed by Lahiru.
Rahul and Suryakumar could not do anything special
KL Rahul and Suryakumar Yadav could not do anything special. Rahul got out after scoring seven runs in six balls and Surya scored four runs in four balls. Kohli completed 150 runs in 106 balls. He missed out on breaking Ishan Kishan’s record for the fastest 150 in ODIs. Ishaan completed 150 runs in 103 balls. India added 18 runs in the last over.
Kohli remained unbeaten on 166 runs in 110 balls with the help of 13 fours and eight sixes. At the same time, Akshar Patel remained unbeaten after scoring two runs. Rajita and Lahiru took two wickets each for Sri Lanka. At the same time, Karunaratne got a wicket. In the last five overs, India scored 58 runs and lost three wickets.
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Siraj wreaked havoc
In response, the Sri Lankan team got off to a bad start. Siraj sent Avishka Fernando (1) and Kusal Mendis (4) to the pavilion while wreaking havoc. After this, Shami got Charith Aslanka caught by Akshar. Siraj then clean bowled Nuwanidu Fernando (19) and Wanindu Hasaranga (1).
After this Indian star fast bowler Chamik Karunaratne (1) was run out. Shami dismissed Dunith Velalge (3), while Kuldeep Yadav dismissed Dasun Shanaka (11) and Lahiru Kumara (9) to wrap up Sri Lanka’s innings.
Kuldeep-Shami took two wickets each
Jeffrey Vandersay and Ashen Bandara were injured during the Indian innings. Dunith Velalge came in as a concussion replacement for Vandersay, but Ashen Bandara could not come out to bat. In such a situation, India was declared the winner. Siraj took four wickets, while Shami and Kuldeep got two wickets each.
