Shami leads rout of Sri Lanka as India advance unbeaten into semi-finals

India 357 for 8 (Gill 92, Kohli 88, Shreyas 82, Madushanka 5-80) beat Sri Lanka 55 (Shami 5-18, Siraj 3-16) by 302 runs

The very first ball from Bumrah was a portent for the carnage that was to comply with. He went huge of the crease, obtained a full ball to angle in after which swing away late to thump the again pad. Siraj additionally struck together with his first ball, pinning Dimuth Karunaratne lbw. Four balls later, with a bolstered cordon, Siraj had the in-form Sadeera Samarawickrama caught at third slip.

But it was the dismissal of captain Kusal Mendis that stood out. Coaches typically instruct bowlers to hit that bail-trimming size – too brief to drive nor brief sufficient to drag or reduce. Siraj not solely hit that bail-trimming size to beat Mendis’ outdoors edge, he additionally broke the bails. At 3 for 4, with simply a kind of runs off the bat, Sri Lanka’s batting line-up was additionally damaged.

Madushanka had hushed the Wankhede together with his second ball – a Mustafizur Rahman-esque cutter that despatched Rohit Sharma’s off stump cartwheeling. Four of Madushanka’s 5 wickets have been all the way down to his potential to roll his fingers throughout the ball. But the remainder of Sri Lanka’s assault continued to leak runs, as has been the case all through this event.

Kohli obtained cracking together with his trademark cover-drives whereas Gill typically stepped out of his crease to fabricate scoring alternatives. Then, when Sri Lanka’s quick bowlers shortened their lengths to Gill, he put them away together with his rasping short-arm pulls. Legspin-bowling allrounder Dushan Hemantha, who is basically a like-for-like alternative for the injured Wanindu Hasaranga, could not stem the movement of runs both.

When Kohli and Gill matched one another shot for shot and moved shut to 3 figures, India’s followers have been most likely entertaining ideas of double-hundreds from each batters. But Madushanka returned to the assault and did not even let the batters attain triple figures. The left-arm seamer then confirmed that he is no one-trick pony. He bounced Suryakumar Yadav out with an on-pace bouncer.

Iyer’s assault was central to India racking up 93 off their final ten overs. Ravindra Jadeja additionally did his bit with the bat in these slog overs, however he was barely wanted with the ball on an evening that belonged to India’s quicks.