India hammered Sri Lanka within the ultimate of the Asia Cup on the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo to say their record-eighth title within the historical past of the event as Mohammed Siraj dazzled with the ball for the Males in Blue. Siraj turned out to be the distinction within the sport because the Hyderabad-born ripped the Sri Lankan batting order to shreds. Siraj was awarded the Participant of the Match for his match-winning spell of 6 for 13.
Electing to bat first after profitable the toss within the essential ultimate, the island nation was instantly placed on the again foot as Jasprit Bumrah dismissed opener Kusal Perera for a duck. Siraj then took centre-stage and dismantled your entire Lankan batting order. He claimed the wickets of Pathum Nissanka, Sadeera Samarawickrama, Charith Asalanka, Dhananjaya de Silva, Dasun Shanaka and Kusal Mendis. His phenomenal spell noticed him end with the fourth-best bowling spell (6/21) for India in ODI historical past.
Sri Lanka’s batting order fell like a home of playing cards as barring Kusal Mendis and Dushan Hemantha not one of the different batters might even attain the double digits. Kusal Mendis confirmed some ressitance and scored 17 off 34 balls, together with three fours whereas Hemantha who got here in to the enjoying XI on the place of Maheesh Theekshana remained unbeaten on 13. The Dasun Shanaka-led facet obtained bundled out for simply 50 and have become the crew to attain the tenth-lowest whole in ODI cricket historical past.
Chasing 51 to win the event, the Indian crew administration determined to ship Ishan Kishan to open the innings for India alongside Shubman Gill. The opening pair of Ishan and Gill helped India scale the full with out dropping a single wicket as they knocked the goal down in simply 6.1 overs. Kuldeep Yadav was adjudged the Participant of the Event.
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