Hospice. Shreyas Iyer’s brilliant innings of 74 not out in 44 balls, India defeated Sri Lanka by seven wickets in the second T20 International match (2nd T20 International Match) on Saturday in three matches. took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series. With this victory, the Indian team also avenged the defeat in the T20 series in Sri Lanka last year. This is the 11th consecutive win for the Indian team in T20 Internationals. The team defeated New Zealand and West Indies 3-0 in the three-match series at home during this period.
Batting first, Sri Lanka scored 183 for five but despite the cheap dismissals of openers Rohit Sharma (1 run) and Ishan Kishan (16 runs), the Indian team easily chased down the target in 17.1 overs for the loss of three wickets. have done. Man of the match Shreyas got good support from Sanju Samson and Ravindra Jadeja. He shared an 84-run partnership with Samson for the third wicket.
India beat Sri Lanka by 7 wickets in the 2nd T20I in Dharamsala to seal the three-match series by 2-0.
— ANI (@ANI) February 26, 2022
Samson scored 39 runs in his 25-ball innings with the help of two fours and three sixes. Iyer and Jadeja forged an unbroken partnership of 58 runs in which Jadeja scored an unbeaten 45 off 18 balls. He hit seven fours and a six during this. Chasing a big target, the Indian team was given a big blow by Dushmanta Chamira (one wicket for 39 runs) by dismissing captain Rohit Sharma in the very first over.
Ishan Kishan, who scored an aggressive half-century in the last match, did not look comfortable at the crease. In the fourth over of the match, a bouncer from Lahiru Kumara (2 for 31) hit Ishan on the head, after which the physio had to come to the ground. In Lahiru’s next over, Ishan was given a simple catch at mid-on to Shanaka. Meanwhile, Shreyas continued his innings from where he left off in the last match by hitting three consecutive fours in the fifth over against Binura Fernando.
India’s score in the power play was 46 runs for two wickets. Sanju Samson was present to support Shreyas, who scored an unbeaten half-century in the last match. While Samson was batting with care, Shreyas hit two consecutive sixes in the ninth over against left-arm bowler Praveen Jayawickrama.
He completed his second half-century in the 11th over by hitting a six against Chamika Karunaratne, while in the 12th over his six against Shanaka completed the team’s century of runs. This is Shreyas’s third half-century in the last four innings. Samson, who has been batting so far, opened his hands against Lahiru for a four in the 13th over and then hit three superb sixes, but on the last ball of the over, Binura Fernando took a brilliant catch in Slim and ended his innings of 39 runs in 25 balls. did.
Samson made India’s comeback in the match with Shreyas for the third wicket partnership. Jadeja then took a very aggressive stance against the Sri Lankan bowlers as soon as he stepped on the crease and made the match comfortably for India.
Earlier, Sri Lanka scored a big total on the back of a brilliant innings of 75 runs in 53 balls by opener Pathum Nisanka. Nisanka hit 11 fours during his innings, 67 with Dhanushka Guntilaka (38) for the first wicket and an aggressive 58 for the fifth wicket with captain Shanaka.
Shanaka made an unbeaten 47 runs in the last over with the help of two fours and five sixes in just 19 balls. Sri Lanka’s batsmen scored 72 runs in the last four overs. After winning the toss and electing to bowl, India’s fast bowlers did not give much opportunity to the Sri Lankan batsmen to score runs in the first four overs.
Openers Nisanka and Guntilka tried to speed up the run by hitting fours against Harshal Patel (1 for 52), who came to bowl in the fifth over. But after six overs of the power play, the team could only score 32 runs without any loss.
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Gunatilka showed his aggressive attitude in the ninth over by hitting two sixes and a four in the first three balls of Jadeja (1 for 37) but on the fourth ball of the over, Jadeja caught him and Venkatesh Iyer dived at long on. Caught. Gunatilaka scored 38 runs in 29 balls. After this, in the next two overs, Yuzvendra Chahal (1 for 27) took the wickets of Charith Aslanka (two) and Harshal took the wickets of Kamil Mishara (one) to reduce Sri Lanka’s score to 76 for three in 11 overs. The fall of wickets from one end had no effect on Nisanka and he hit two fours in the 13th over against Bhuvneshwar Kumar (1 for 36).
Veteran Dinesh Chandimal (nine) hit a four with a brilliant straight drive against Jasprit Bumrah (1 for 24) but was caught by captain Rohit Sharma at extra cover on the very next ball. Nisanka completed his fifth fifty in T20 Internationals by hitting a four against Chahal in the 16th over.
After this, Dasoon Shanaka started playing big shots as soon as he stepped on the crease. Taking an aggressive approach against Harshal, he hit two sixes each in his 17th and 20th overs. Earlier, Bhuvneshwar ended his scintillating innings by hitting Nisanka leg before in the last ball of the 19th over. (agency)