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New Delhi: Team India defeated Sri Lanka by 6 wickets in the last T20 match. With this, the Indian team captured the series 3-0. In the third T20, Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat first. Sri Lanka had a poor start in the match and the Indian bowlers bowled well. Sri Lanka scored 146 runs in 20 overs for the loss of 5 wickets. Indian batsmen comfortably achieved the target of 147 runs.
Shreyas Iyer shines again
Sri Lanka had set a target of 147 runs in front of India in the third and last T20 match. In response, Team India achieved the target by losing 4 wickets. The hero of this victory of India was also Shreyas Iyer. Shreyas Iyer played an unbeaten innings of 73 runs. Earlier, chasing the target, India had a poor start and in the second over, Dushmanta Chamira dismissed Rohit Sharma for 5 runs. Sanju Samson and Shreyas Iyer added 45 runs in 28 balls for the second wicket. After this Samson was dismissed after scoring 18 runs. Deepak Hooda also contributed 21 runs in the victory.
Good performance by Indian bowlers
In the third and final match of the series, Indian bowlers performed brilliantly. In the last match, Mohammad Siraj and Avesh Khan got a chance, which both players took full advantage of. Siraj took 1 wicket for 22 runs in 4 overs. Avesh gave 23 runs in 4 overs and took 2 wickets in his name. Harshal Patel and Ravi Bishnoi took 1-1 wickets. Sri Lanka’s captain Dasun Shanaka was the top scorer. Shanaka played an innings of 74.
Indian team won the series
India defeated Sri Lanka by 7 wickets to capture the three-match T20I series. India had won the toss and decided to bowl first. Sri Lanka gave India a target of 184 runs to win, India won the match on the basis of the lethal batting of Shreyas Iyer and Ravindra Jadeja. Shreyas Iyer, playing in place of Virat Kohli, scored 74 runs in 44 balls. In the end, Jadeja batted, seeing his batting, the opposition bowlers pressed their fingers under their teeth.
Ishaan Kishan out
Just before the third T20, Indian team’s young deadly opener Ishan Kishan has been out of this entire series. Ishaan was injured during the second T20 and was also taken to the hospital. Let us inform that in the second T20 match, a 146 Kmph speed bouncer of Sri Lankan bowler Lahiru Kumara hit Ishan Kishan’s head. The ball hit so hard that Ishaan sat on the ground for some time. Ishan Kishan was admitted to a hospital in Kangra at this time. Ishaan has come from the hospital but he has to be out of the last T20.
Playing 11 of both the teams
Sri Lanka: Pathum Nisanka, Danushka Gunathilaka, Charit Aslanka, Dinesh Chandimal (wk), Zenith Lianage, Dasun Shanaka (c), Chamika Karunaratne, Dushmantha Chamira, Jeffrey Vandersay, Binura Fernando, Lahiru Kumara
India: Rohit Sharma (capt), Sanju Samson (wk), Shreyas Iyer, Ravindra Jadeja, Venkatesh Iyer, Deepak Hooda, Harshal Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohammad Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Avesh Khan
