Dunith Wellalage stole the present in Sri Lanka’s 42-run loss in opposition to India on Tuesday, 12 September. The 20-year-old all-rounder not solely picked up 5 wickets in opposition to India, but in addition went down preventing within the second innings of the match in opposition to a powerful Indian bowling assault. The left-hander remained not out on 42 off 46 runs as Sri Lanka folded for 172 runs whereas chasing 214 in opposition to Rohit Sharma’s India.
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Wellalage’s spectacular outing meant that the obtained the participant of the match award regardless of Sri Lanka dropping the sport and making their remaining’s qualification tough within the Asia Cup 2023. Captain Dasun Shanaka spoke extremely of the participant and stated that he had a sense that Wellalage was going to do one thing particular in opposition to India.
“After the last game against Bangladesh, I sensed that Wellalage could do something special. He did that today and also got wickets of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma,” Shanaka stated after the conclusion of the sport.
Spinners dominated the proceedings all through the match. First it was Dunith Wellalage and Charith Asalanka who took 9 wickets between them to go away India reeling after which Ravindra Jadeja and Kuldeep Yadav returned the favour choosing up 6 wickets between them.
“See, at the start, we didn’t expect this kind of a wicket. We thought it was a batting wicket,” Shanaka stated concerning the Colombo wicket which began spinning profusely from the eleventh over of the primary innings.
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Wellalage was instrumental within the pitch for Sri Lanka and worn out the whole Indian prime order. Shubman Gill, Rohit Sharma, and Virat Kohli fell first and the spinner picked up the wickets of KL Rahul and Hardik Pandya as nicely to go away India reeling at one stage.
Sri Lanka will now play a digital semi-final in opposition to Pakistan for a spot within the remaining of Asia Cup 2023.
Edited By:
Kingshuk Kusari
Published On:
Sep 12, 2023
