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India through to Asia Cup final after beating Sri Lanka by 41 runs

India recorded their second straight Super Four win

India is through to the Asia Cup final after beating Sri Lanka by 41 runs on Tuesday in a Super-4 match played at Colombo’s R Premadasa Stadium.

Sri Lanka bowled out India for 213 runs while batting first.

 spun his way to a 5-wicket haul, while Asalanka picked up 4 crucial wickets!

In the case of 214 runs target Sri Lanka was wiped out at 41 runs deficet.

Wellalage, who claimed his maiden ODI five-wicket haul, remained unbeaten.

Today was India’s third successive day of cricket after hammering Pakistan by 228 runs on Monday’s reserve day due to rain.

Score Card:

India (50 ovs maximum)
BATTING R B M 4s 6s SR
b Wellalage 53 48 73 7 2 110.41
b Wellalage 19 25 54 2 0 76.00
c Shanaka b Wellalage 3 12 12 0 0 25.00
c Wellalage b Asalanka 33 61 82 1 1 54.09
c & b Wellalage 39 44 56 2 0 88.63
c †Mendis b Wellalage 5 18 26 0 0 27.77
c †Mendis b Asalanka 4 19 18 0 0 21.05
c Samarawickrama b Theekshana 26 36 58 0 1 72.22
b Asalanka 5 12 13 0 0 41.66
c de Silva b Asalanka 0 1 2 0 0 0.00
not out 5 19 32 0 0 26.31
Extras (lb 1, w 20) 21
TOTAL 49.1 Ov (RR: 4.33) 213
Fall of wickets: 1-80 (Shubman Gill, 11.1 ov), 2-90 (Virat Kohli, 13.5 ov), 3-91 (Rohit Sharma, 15.1 ov), 4-154 (KL Rahul, 29.6 ov), 5-170 (Ishan Kishan, 34.2 ov), 6-172 (Hardik Pandya, 35.6 ov), 7-178 (Ravindra Jadeja, 38.5 ov), 8-186 (Jasprit Bumrah, 42.1 ov), 9-186 (Kuldeep Yadav, 42.2 ov), 10-213 (Axar Patel, 49.1 ov) • DRS
BOWLING O M R W ECON 0s 4s 6s WD NB
4 0 30 0 7.50 14 2 1 3 0
9.1 0 41 1 4.47 28 0 1 4 0
3 0 24 0 8.00 10 5 0 1 0
4 0 31 0 7.75 13 2 1 4 0
10 1 40 5 4.00 37 3 1 0 0
10 0 28 0 2.80 34 0 0 0 0
9 1 18 4 2.00 37 0 0 0 0
Sri Lanka (T: 214 runs from 50 ovs)
BATTING R B M 4s 6s SR
c Rahul b Bumrah 6 7 11 1 0 85.71
c Shubman Gill b Mohammed Siraj 2 18 37 0 0 11.11
c sub (SA Yadav) b Bumrah 15 16 23 3 0 93.75
st Rahul b Kuldeep Yadav 17 31 56 1 0 54.83
c Rahul b Kuldeep Yadav 22 35 59 2 0 62.85
c Shubman Gill b Jadeja 41 66 84 5 0 62.12
c Sharma b Jadeja 9 13 21 1 0 69.23
not out 42 46 81 3 1 91.30
c sub (SA Yadav) b Pandya 2 14 18 0 0 14.28
b Kuldeep Yadav 1 2 5 0 0 50.00
b Kuldeep Yadav 0 2 3 0 0 0.00
Extras (b 2, lb 4, nb 1, w 8) 15
TOTAL 41.3 Ov (RR: 4.14) 172
Fall of wickets: 1-7 (Pathum Nissanka, 2.1 ov), 2-25 (Kusal Mendis, 6.4 ov), 3-25 (Dimuth Karunaratne, 7.1 ov), 4-68 (Sadeera Samarawickrama, 17.3 ov), 5-73 (Charith Asalanka, 19.2 ov), 6-99 (Dasun Shanaka, 25.1 ov), 7-162 (Dhananjaya de Silva, 37.3 ov), 8-171 (Mahesh Theekshana, 40.5 ov), 9-172 (Kasun Rajitha, 41.1 ov), 10-172 (Matheesha Pathirana, 41.3 ov) • DRS
BOWLING O M R W ECON 0s 4s 6s WD NB
7 1 30 2 4.28 31 5 0 2 0
5 2 17 1 3.40 23 3 0 1 0
5 0 14 1 2.80 20 1 0 0 0
9.3 0 43 4 4.52 33 2 1 0 0
10 0 33 2 3.30 36 2 0 0 1
5 0 29 0 5.80 15 3 0 1 0
Saman Siddiqui

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