Red-hot Siraj scorches Sri Lanka in lopsided Asia Cup ultimate

India 51 for 0 (Gill 27*, Kishan 23*) beat Sri Lanka 50 (Siraj 6-21, Pandya 3-3) by 10 wickets

In response, Shubman Gill and Ishan Kishan, opening the innings instead of Rohit Sharma, took simply 6.1 overs to finish the formalities. The two India openers hit 9 fours between them; all Sri Lanka batters mixed hit 5.

After shedding the toss, Rohit Sharma stated that he too had needed to bat first on what he known as “a dry wicket”. But ten minutes earlier than the scheduled begin, it began raining. Perhaps that modified the entire state of affairs.

When the match lastly began after a delay of 40 minutes, Jasprit Bumrah obtained the ball to maneuver in each instructions. With his third supply, he had Kusal Perera caught behind. Sri Lanka have been in for a good ruder shock from the opposite finish.

Siraj began with a maiden, beating Kusal Mendis’ outdoors edge 4 instances within the over. In his subsequent, he had 4 wickets. Pathum Nissanka was the primary to depart, pushing a size supply uppishly in the direction of backward level, the place Ravindra Jadeja dived low to his proper to pouch it with each fingers.

Two balls later, Siraj trapped Sadeera Samarawickrama lbw after which instantly after that had Charith Asalanka chipping one to cowl. Dhananjaya de Silva survived the hat-trick ball. In reality, he pushed it by the vacant mid-on area for 4. Such was Siraj’s adrenaline that he chased all of it the best way to the long-on boundary, leaving the Indian fielders splitting their sides with laughter.