India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, 2nd ODI: Get IND vs SL Live Updates from R. Premadasa International Cricket Stadium on Sunday
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, 2nd ODI Match Today: After the first match of the 3-match ODI series ended in a tie, both India and Sri Lanka will go back to the drawing board and find out solutions to their respective weaknesses.
In case of India, they will look to negate the impact of the sluggish pitch and the Sri Lankan spinners who helped the home side eke out a draw in the last match. India needed 1 run from 15 balls as the match raced towards its inevitable conclusion but SL skipper Charith Asalanka took out both Shivam Dube and Arshdeep Singh in back to back balls to ensure that the Men in Blue could not reach 231.
Sri Lanka will look for their batters to put up a better resistance in this match with Pathum Nissanka (56) and bowler Dunith Wellalage (67) the only ones with respectable scores with their middle order collapsing.
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India’s Mohammed Siraj and Arshdeep Singh walk back to pavilion after the the first ODI cricket match between Sri Lanka and India was tied in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, Aug. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
IND vs SL 1st ODI: On a throwback wicket, Indian batsmen find the going tough
The slow pitch at the Premadasa was a throwback to the 90s. The seamers found movement with the new ball, but quick runs were in the offering too. Once the spinners came on, batsmen were in for a grind, where they had to indulge in ones and twos. The conditions dictated batsmen to play a different brand of cricket, from the 90s, which posed a challenge for both sets of batsmen from Sri Lanka and India. After a seven-and-a-half hour slugfest, there was nothing to separate largely ordinary batting from both teams as the first ODI ended in a tie.
With 231 to chase on a pitch that was only going to slow further down under lights, if not for Rohit Sharma’s aggressive approach at the top where he mixed aggression with caution, India would have fallen way short of the target. At 71/0 at the end of 10 overs, India appeared to be cruising. But the Premadasa pitch comes to life under lights. It is a scene Indians have witnessed in the 90s as once the ball got soft, Sri Lanka’s spinners made a match out of this. Every time India surged ahead, the hosts hit back, a theme that repeated throughout the evening. When Shivam Dube smashed a boundary off Charith Asalanka over with 5 needed off 16 deliveries and two wickets in hand, it appeared over. But Asalanka dismissed Dube and Arshdeep Singh off successive deliveries to tie the match.
Playing the first ODI in over six months, the rustiness of Indian batsmen was evident. After Rohit gave them a head start in the chase, making a 47-ball 58 which included seven boundaries and three sixes, the required run-rate remained under control until the end. All that India needed was one big partnership if not two vital ones. But barring the 57-run stand between KL Rahul and Axar Patel for the sixth wicket, the India’s batting line-up lost the way as Sri Lanka’s spinners took 9 of the 10 wickets to fall. After Rohit’s 57, only Axar and Rahul managed to cross 30s as Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer and Dube all squandered starts. (READ MORE)
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First uploaded on: 04-08-2024 at 13:00 IST
