IND vs SL / Team India recorded the biggest win in cricket history, beat Sri Lanka by 317 runs

Zoom News : Jan 15, 2023, 07:56 PM
IND vs SL: Team India has made the world record of the biggest win in the history of ODI cricket. India defeated Sri Lanka by 317 runs in the last match of the three-match series. India broke New Zealand's 15-year-old record in this matter. The Kiwi team defeated Ireland by 290 runs in 2008. Virat Kohli, Shubman Gill and Mohammad Siraj were the heroes of India's victory. Virat scored his 46th ODI century while playing an innings of 166*. At the same time, Shubman Gill scored 116 runs. India scored a mammoth score of 390 for 5 in 50 overs.

In reply Sri Lanka were restricted to 73 for 9 in 22 overs. Mohammad Siraj took maximum 4 wickets. 6 Sri Lankan batsmen could not even reach double figures.

The biggest defeat of the Indian team in ODI cricket was against Sri Lanka in the year 2000. Then Sri Lanka defeated Team India by 245 runs. Now India has given its biggest defeat to Sri Lanka. In the match played in Sharjah in the year 2000, Sri Lanka scored 299 runs thanks to the century of Sanath Jayasuriya (189 runs). In response, the Indian innings was reduced to 54 runs.

Now India made a huge score on the strength of Virat's strong angel and bundled Sri Lanka on a very modest score.

3 heroes of victory

Virat Kohli Virat has played an inning of 166 runs. Kohli hit 13 fours and 8 sixes in his 110-ball innings. This is the 46th century of Virat's career.

Shubman Gill Opener Shubman Gill scored the second century of his career. He scored 116 runs on 97 balls. In this innings, Shubman scored 14 fours and 2 sixes.

Mohammad Siraj bowled sharp. 4 Sri Lankan batsmen were dismissed. Also got a run out. Siraj took the wickets of Vanindu Hasaranga (one run), Nuvanidu Fernando (19 runs), Kusal Mendis 4 runs, Avishka Fernando (one run).

Sri Lankan wickets fell like this

First: On the 5th ball of the second over, Siraj got Avishka Fernando caught by Gill.

Second: Siraj got Mendis caught by wicketkeeper Rahul on the last ball of the fourth over.

Third: Shami got Charith Aslanka caught by Akshar on the third ball of the 7th over.

Fourth: Siraj bowled Fernando on the third ball of the 8th over.

Fifth: Siraj bowled Hasranga on the third ball of the 10th over.

Sixth: Siraj runs out Karunaratne.

Seventh: Kuldeep Yadav bowled captain Dasun Shanaka.

Eighth: Shami got Dunith Velage (Kankasan) caught by Yadav.

Virat's third century in the last four ODIs

Virat, who suffered a century drought for almost three years, is now raining centuries. He has scored his third century in the last four ODIs. After scoring a century in the last match of the series against Bangladesh, Virat scored triple digit scores in the first and third matches of the current series against Sri Lanka.

World record for most centuries against a team

Virat has scored his 10th ODI century against Sri Lanka. This is the world record for most centuries against any one team in this format. Earlier this record was jointly in the name of Virat and Sachin. Before this match, Virat had scored 9-9 centuries against Sri Lanka and West Indies. At the same time, Sachin scored 9 ODI centuries against Australia.

Team India's wickets fell like this

First: On the second ball of the 16th over, Karunaratne got Rohit caught by Avishka Fernando at deep backward square leg.

Second: Shubman Gill was bowled by Kasun Rajitha in the 34th over.

Third: In the 46th over, Lahiru Kumara got Shreyas Iyer caught by substitute fielder Dhananjay de Silva.

Fourth: KL Rahul was caught by Dunit Velage on the 5th ball of the 48th over. He was dismissed by Lahiru Kumara.

Strong partnership of Gill-Virat

Virat Kohli scored quick runs after the dismissal of captain Rohit Sharma (42 runs) on a team score of 95. He added 131 runs off 110 balls for the second wicket with opener Shubman Gill. In this partnership, Kohli contributed 58 and Gill contributed 71 runs. Gill was bowled by Kasun Rajitha's slower ball after scoring 116 runs in 97 balls.

95-run opening partnership between Rohit-Gil

Captain Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill made an opening partnership of 95 runs. Both faced 92 balls. In the partnership, Rohit scored 42 off 49 balls and Gill scored 45 off 43 balls. Here Rohit Sharma got out after scoring 42 runs.

Both the teams landed with two changes each.

For the last match of the series, both the countries have made two changes in their respective playing. Indian captain Rohit Sharma has rested Hardik Pandya and Umran Malik. While Sri Lankan captain Dasun Shanaka has replaced Dhananjay de Silva with Ashin Bandara and Geoffrey Vandersay in place of Dunith Velage.

See the playing-11 of both countries

India: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Washington Sundar, Akshar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj.

Sri Lanka: Dasun Shanaka (Captain), Avishka Fernando, Nuwanidu Fernando, Kusal Mendis, Ashin Bandara, Charith Aslanka, Vanindu Hasaranga, Geoffrey Wendersay, Chamika Karunaratne, Kasun Rajitha, Lahiru Kumara.

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