India vs Sri Lanka Live Score Asia Cup Super 4: IND’s top three shredded to pieces by Wellalage
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score Asia Cup Super 4 : Dunith Wellalage has dented IND’s good start with the big wickets of Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli.
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score Asia Cup Super 4: India won the toss and chose to bat first as the weather remained nice and sunny in the minutes leading up to the start of the match. Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill have opened for India, Rohit eventually became the second fastest batter to 10,000 ODI runs in typical fashion, hitting a six over the bowler’s head with a sumptuous shot. He also surpassed Shahid Afridi’s record for most sixes in the Asia Cup. India lost their first wicket in the 12th over with Dunith Wellalage dismissing Shubman Gill with his first ball of the match. He then dismissed Virat Kohli, thus denying the former India captain a fifth consecutive century at the R Premadasa Stadium.
India have been immersed in non-stop cricket action since Sunday. Their match against Pakistan, which commenced at 3pm IST on Sunday, finally concluded at 10.55pm on Monday, thanks to persistent rain interruptions. Less than 16 hours later, they find themselves gearing up for their next Asia Cup Super 4 match against Sri Lanka, with hopes pinned on favourable weather conditions in Colombo and the tireless efforts of the ground staff. This unique sequence of events is without precedent in many ways but India have decided to retain KL Rahul and Jasprit Bumrah, who have both come back from long term injuries and played a major role in India’s record win against Pakistan on Monday.
Meanwhile, Sri Lanka face a significant challenge. A victory against India would all but secure their place in the final. However, a loss would catapult India into the final, compelling Sri Lanka to confront a virtual knockout clash against Pakistan.
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- Sep 12, 2023 04:14 PM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score: GONE! NOW ROHIT FALLS TO WELLALAGE!
Dunith Wellalage has shredded the Indian top three to pieces.
Rohit Sharma b Wellalage 53 (48), India 91/3 in 15.1 overs
- Sep 12, 2023 04:11 PM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score Asia Cup Super 4: Ishan Kishan comes in at No.4
India are 90/2 in 14 overs. A wicket maiden from Wellalage. Dhananjaya de Silva comes in and so spin from both ends now. This game has suddenly turned on its head.
- Sep 12, 2023 04:06 PM IST
IND vs SL Live score: GONE! WELLALAGE NOW GETS KOHLI!
No fifth consecutive century on this ground for Kohli today. Wellalage is having a ball in his early overs. Kohli hits it straight to the man at shord midwicket.
Kohli c Shanaka b Wellalage 3 (12), India 90/2 in 13.5 overs
- Sep 12, 2023 04:03 PM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score: 13 overs done, India 90/1
Rohit looking regal on 52 off 46, Kohli has made three in seven balls. Pathirana has conceded 27 runs in his three overs.
- Sep 12, 2023 04:00 PM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score Asia Cup Super 4: FOUR! 50 for Rohit
Another day, another half century for Rohit. He reaches 51 in 44 balls. Shortish from Pathirana and Rohit eats it up, pulls it in the air and it goes over midwicket, one bounce and over the boundary.
- Sep 12, 2023 03:59 PM IST
IND vs SL Live score: 5000 runs between Rohit and Kohli
Kohli comes in, just under 12 hours after he hit his fourth consecutive century on this ground. He joins Rohit Sharma and the two have scored a few runs together over the years to say the least.
- Sep 12, 2023 03:54 PM IST
Asia Cup 2023 Super 4 Live Score: BOWLED HIM! Gill is cleaned up!
Dunith Wellalage with his first ball! Angling into middle stump and flighted, it dips just as it reaches the batter. Gill seems to play for the turn but it doesn’t, it goes past him as he falls over and knocks the off stump. What a delivery that is, Gill completely deceived by it.
Gill b Wellalage 19 (25), India 80/1 in 11 overs
- Sep 12, 2023 03:49 PM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score Asia Cup Super 4: SIX! ROHIT IN THE GROOVE
Pathirana with a fairly good short ball but Rohit Sharma is seeing them as big as a basketball. Gets into position early and swats it away with his trademark pull shot.
- Sep 12, 2023 03:47 PM IST
IND vs SL Live score: India 65/0 in 10 overs
India started off slower than they did in the game against Pakistan but Rohit Sharma has negated that. He is on 39 off 37, Gill on 18 off 23.
- Sep 12, 2023 03:46 PM IST
Asia Cup 2023 Super 4 Live Score: BACK TO BACK FOURS AGAIN!
Rohit has laid into Shanaka in this over. The fourth ball is sent in at a length, Rohit smashes it straight back and past mid-on. The fifth ball was too full outside off and Rohit sends it away with a square drive.
- Sep 12, 2023 03:45 PM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score: BACK TO BACK FOURS!
Rohit giving his Sri Lanka counterpart something to think about. Shanaka sends the first ball wide and then it is chipped just over extra cover. He then goes fuller on the pads and Rohit puts it between mid-on and midwicket. Meanwhile, the opening stand has gone past 50, again!
- Sep 12, 2023 03:41 PM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score Asia Cup Super 4: FOUR! India 48/0 in 9 overs
Pathirana strays on the pads for the last ball of that over and Gill punishes him. Gill sends it in front of square leg.
- Sep 12, 2023 03:37 PM IST
IND vs SL Live score: Pathirana comes in
The baby Malinga, who is now fairly experienced himself, comes in to bowl his first over in the ninth. Shubman Gill facing him. India are 44.0 in 8 overs, Rohit on 23 off 31, Gill on 14 off 17.
- Sep 12, 2023 03:31 PM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score: SIX! MAKE A PAINTING OF THAT ONE
Rohit Sharma gets to 10,000 ODI runs with the most sumptuous of shots! He has also gone past Shahid Afridi’s record for most sixes in the Asia Cup, with this one being his 27th. Good length delivery for the fifth of the seventh from Rajitha. Rohit meets it with a lofted straight drive. Just the most perfect timing on it and the ball sails over the sight screen.
- Sep 12, 2023 03:29 PM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score Asia Cup Super 4: Five Wides and then another wide
Well India have effectively got six runs off the third ball of the seventh over. Rajitha goes down the leg side and the keeper stands no chance first up, it goes to the boundary. The second time the keeper does get it but it is wide down the leg side nonetheless.
- Sep 12, 2023 03:25 PM IST
Asia Cup 2023 Super 4 Live Score: FOUR! Great timing and a misfield
Shanaka strays on Rohit’s pads for the second last ball of the 6th over and the Indian captain nails the timing on his flick. Charith Asalanka seems to have got to it at the boundary but the ball pops out of his hands as he rolls after diving and darts over the boundary.
- Sep 12, 2023 03:22 PM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score Asia Cup Super 4: India 25/0 in 5 overs
Both players on 12, Rohit has got there in 20 balls, Gill off 10. Dasun Shanaka now replaces Theekshana for the sixth over.
- Sep 12, 2023 03:19 PM IST
IND vs SL Live score: FOUR! Gill gets one away
Second ball of the fifth from Rajitha, Gill comes down the track and sends it over mid-off to the boundary. Fantastic shot from the Indian opener.
- Sep 12, 2023 03:15 PM IST
Asia Cup 2023 Super 4 Live Score: Steady start for India
Just the one boundary thus far in the first three overs, which is quite different from what was the case against Pakistan. However, it has to be noted singles and doubles have come easily for the two batters because of which Rohit is on 9 off 13 while Gill is on four off five.
- Sep 12, 2023 03:09 PM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score: 2 overs done, India 10/0
Just three runs from that second over from Theekshana. Two for Gill and one for Rohit.
- Sep 12, 2023 03:05 PM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score Asia Cup Super 4: India 7/0 in 1 over
Rohit took a single after that four after which Gill ran two runs. Both openers off the mark for India. Mahesh Theekshana comes in for the second over and so spin straightaway from Sri Lanka.
- Sep 12, 2023 03:04 PM IST
IND vs SL Live score: FOUR! Rohit is off the mark
Rohit started off with three consecutive leaves, then sends the fourth crashing through covers.
- Sep 12, 2023 02:59 PM IST
Asia Cup 2023 Super 4 Live Score: The players are out!
Right, Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill are out there with the Indian captain taking guard as usual. These two have two century stands in this tournament. Rohit 22 runs away from 10,000 ODI runs remember. Kasun Rajitha to bowl the first over for Sri Lanka.
- Sep 12, 2023 02:56 PM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score: National Anthems
The two sets of players have lined up adjacent to each other. First comes Sri Lanka’s national anthem, and then India’s.
Sep 12, 2023 02:49 PM ISTIndia vs Sri Lanka Live Score Asia Cup Super 4: What Dasun Shanaka said
“We would have batted first as well. They are pretty strong side compared to us but we have to play a good game, we will somehow try to win the game. We are going with the same team.”
- Sep 12, 2023 02:42 PM IST
IND vs SL Live score: India’s lineup
So, India have chosen to keep Rahul and Bumrah in the XI while they are hot. They also have a deeper batting lineup, Axar Patel is a far more sure bet with the bat than Shardul Thakur, despite the latter’s tendency to do utterly, ridiculously, extraordinary things right when you think that all is lost. On top of all that, Sri Lanka will have to deal with potentially 30 overs of high class spin bowling. At least on paper, there are going to be no honeymoon phases for them in their innings.
- Sep 12, 2023 02:40 PM IST
Asia Cup 2023 Super 4 Live Score: What Rohit Sharma said
“We are going to have a bat. That’s the challenge you come across as a sportsman, different challenges thrown at you as a player and as a team. We ensured everyone got into the pool after the game last night. They are fresh as we had five days off before these two games. Last game was good for us, we batted well and then came out to defend the total with some good bowling. But again this is a new day and a fresh game. The pitch looks different, looks a lot drier and there’s no grass and hence we bring in Axar for Shardul. It might assist the spinners but we also have three quality pacers.”
- Sep 12, 2023 02:38 PM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score: India XI
Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Ishan Kishan(w), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj
- Sep 12, 2023 02:36 PM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score Asia Cup Super 4: Sri Lanka XI
Pathum Nissanka, Dimuth Karunaratne, Kusal Mendis(w), Sadeera Samarawickrama, Charith Asalanka, Dhananjaya de Silva, Dasun Shanaka(c), Dunith Wellalage, Maheesh Theekshana, Kasun Rajitha, Matheesha Pathirana
- Sep 12, 2023 02:31 PM IST
IND vs SL Live score: TOSS ALERT!
India win toss and choose to bat first. Rohit says Axar Patel will play as the third spinner.
- Sep 12, 2023 02:27 PM IST
Asia Cup 2023 Super 4 Live Score: “Doesn’t matter who wins the toss”
Sanjay Manjrekar and Matthew Hayden point out that there is no grass on the pitch at all today, as opposed to what was the case yesterday. Manjrekar says that today will be all about batting well, doesn’t matter if you do that first or second.
- Sep 12, 2023 02:23 PM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Pathirana and Theekshana
MS Dhoni’s legacy is obviously has largely been to the benefit of Indian cricket but such is his impact on players that foreign players in CSK have also improved under him. Today, India will come up against that part of Dhoni’s legacy that would hurt them. Matheesha Pathirana and Mahesh Theekshana have been players transformed after their two-year stint with CSK and they have been the driving force of Sri Lanka’s unbeaten run in this tournament.
- Sep 12, 2023 02:18 PM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score Asia Cup Super 4: Sunny days in Colombo!
Rain? What is that? At least that is what you would think when you see the R Premadasa right now. It is absolutely bathed in sunlight. But that is how it was day before yesterday as well at the start of the match between India and Pakistan, before everything became wet and mucky.
- Sep 12, 2023 02:10 PM IST
IND vs SL Live score: No Hasaranga no problem for Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka were unbeaten since the World Cup qualifiers but they came into this Asia Cup as a rather depleted side. For one, their biggest star Wanindu Hasaranga was ruled out with injury. As were Dushmantha Chameera (pectoral tear), Dilshan Madushanka (oblique tear), and Lahiru Kumara (side strain). And yet, they have gone about their business almost as if they are missing no one, with a different player putting their hand up in each match.
- Sep 12, 2023 02:01 PM IST
Asia Cup 2023 Super 4 Live Score: Preserving Hardik Pandya
The three matches India have played in the Asia Cup have also been a demonstration of just how important Hardik Pandya is for their cause in the World Cup. He bailed India out with the bat in the first match against Pakistan. Then he bowled seven overs against Nepal and broke a good partnership by dismissing Dipendra Singh Airee and yesterday, he bowled five intense overs and took the all-important wicket of Babar Azam. There is a chance that India might choose to rest him and maybe let Axar Patel or Shardul Thakur get some overs and runs today.
- Sep 12, 2023 01:56 PM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Could SKY be given a go again?
KL Rahul had a busy day yesterday. Apart from that whirlwind partnership with Kohli in which the pair ran the Pakistan fielders to the ground in addition to hitting boundaries, Rahul also kept wickets for all but the first few overs of the Pakistan innings. It isn’t too far-fetched to think that he might be rested after all that considering that was only his first match on returning from a long-term injury. Conversely, one could also imagine the Indian management thinking that Rahul is hot right now and should not be rested. Instead he can be given more game time as a wicketkeeper and so Ishan Kishan could be dropped. Either way, if India feel tempted to give Suryakumar Yadav another go, either Rahul or Kishan will have to be excluded from the team.
- Sep 12, 2023 01:52 PM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Gambhir on Kohli winning player of the match vs Pakistan
Virat Kohli had won the player of the match for his century against Pakistan but Gautam Gambhir disagreed with that. “For me, it’s Kuldeep Yadav. Can’t look beyond him. I know Virat got a hundred KL (Rahul) got a hundred. Rohit (Sharma), Shubman Gill got fifties but on a wicket like this where it was seaming swinging, if someone get five wickets in 8 overs, especially against Pakistan batters, who play spin really well, is a game-changing moment. I can understand if it was Australia, South Africa or New Zealand because they don’t play spin that well. This just shows the quality of the bowler. He beat batters in the air and he beat batters off the wicket as well. Going into the World Cup, that is great for Indian cricket because now you have two attacking pacers upfront and Kuldeep… Three bowlers who can take wickets at any stage of the game,” Gambhir said.
- Sep 12, 2023 01:48 PM IST
IND vs SL Live score: An update on Shreyas Iyer
This is just in from the BCCI, folks: “UPDATE – Shreyas Iyer is feeling better but is yet to fully recover from back spasm. He has been adviced rest by the BCCI Medical Team and has not travelled with the team to the stadium today for India’s Super 4 match against Sri Lanka.”
- Sep 12, 2023 01:29 PM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Kohli’s love story with Colombo
With his century yeterday, Kohli became just the second batter after South Africa great Hashim Amla to have scored tons in four consecutive ODIs at the same venue. Remember that India are playing at the same venue today and if Kohli does play in this, Sri Lanka would be quite weary of letting him have second or third chances the way Pakistan did. Kohli’s stats at the R Premadasa are just mind boggling – in nine ODIs that he has played at the stadium, Kohli has scored 641 at a mind-boggling average of 128.20 and strike rate of 99.84. He holds the record for most centuries at the venue jointly with Sanath Jayasuriya and Sachin Tendulkar.
- Sep 12, 2023 01:19 PM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score Asia Cup Super 4: Kuldeep Yadav – the real deal
There was a point in Star Sports’ broadcast show yesterday where Waqar Younis pointed out that no one in the studio is talking about Kuldeep Yadav as far as India’s most potent weapons go. Sure enough, Kuldeep went on to take five wickets and decimated Pakistan, allowing India to run off to a 228-run win. Kuldeep is named in the World Cup squad and he has been in sensational form in recent months in both ODIs and T20Is.
- Sep 12, 2023 01:02 PM IST
IND vs SL Live score: Could India rest players?
India have never been a team to shy away from resting their big players. Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have had multiple “rest” periods over the course of the last three years. The pair have been “rested” from T20Is since the last T20 World Cup. Jasprit Bumrah has been rested multiple times in the past as well. With the World Cup later this year being the real priority for the team, they might just consider resting Bumrah at least and perhaps even someone like Kohli or Rahul considering all of these players had fairly heavy workloads yesterday. The fact that today’s play could be heavily interrupted by rain, is another factor that could lead to that decision.
- Sep 12, 2023 12:50 PM IST
Asia Cup 2023 Super 4 Live Score: Bumrah’s blockbuster opening spell
Among the features of India’s runaway win over Pakistan yesterday was Jasprit Bumrah spitting fire in his opening salvo. He had openers Fakhar Zaman and Imam-ul-Haq dancing to his tunes, eventually providing India with the breakthrough by dismissing the latter in the fifth over which ended up being a wicket-maiden. Bumrah had made his comeback from a year-long spell on the sidelines due to injury in the T20I series against Ireland last month but this was the first time he had taken up an ODI workload and he excelled. It remains to be seen how he has held up after that though.
- Sep 12, 2023 12:34 PM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Rohit on the SL groundsmen
The groundsmen at the R Premadasa Stadium were extraordinary in the way they covered nearly every inch of the ground almost every time it rained. It was their intuition that ensured that the outfield remained dry yesterday as they covered up the ground well before the heavy rains came around. Rohit Sharma acknowledged their contribution. “We just wanted to get out on the park to get some game time. A lot of guys haven’t had that. That could happen only thanks to a great effort from the groundsmen. I know how tough it is to cover and remove covers from the whole ground. On behalf of the entire team, I would like to thank them,” he said.
- Sep 12, 2023 12:24 PM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score Asia Cup Super 4: The 10k club awaits Rohit
Rohit Sharma was 22 runs away from reaching 10,000 career runs in ODI when he was dismissed by Shadab Khan on Sunday. If he gets there today, Rohit would become the second fastest to that mark. He will be playing his 241st innings today and his teammate Virat Kohli, obviously, had got to 10,000 ODI runs in just 205 innings. He would be jumping past the likes of Sachin Tendulkar (259 innings), Sourav Ganguly (263), Ricky Ponting (266), Jacques Kallis (272), MS Dhoni (273) and Brian Lara (278).
- Sep 12, 2023 12:21 PM IST
Asia Cup 2023 Super 4 Live Score: Rohit one behind Shahid Afridi’s sixes record
There are quite a few records that the Indian captain could upend today, starting with Shahid Afridi’s record for most sixes in the history of the Asia Cup. Afridi had hit 26 maximums and Rohit equalled that during his innings against Pakistan on Sunday. He is also 10 sixes away from equalling Chris Gayle’s record for most sixes by a player in the history of international cricket.
- Sep 12, 2023 12:13 PM IST
Asia Cup 2023 Super 4 Live Score: Rahul on how Kohli helped him
“13,000 runs, I can’t say anything about that man, he is just phenomenal. Words are short to describe what a great cricketer he is. I have always felt comfortable playing with him. He runs really hard for his and his partner’s runs. Communication is good with him, we have both been in these situations before. Initially he gave me some time for the quick singles, I had asked for it because I needed to feel comfortable with my own body. He was doing what he does best which gave me time to get into the game and I started playing my shot.,” said Rahul after the match yesterday
- Sep 12, 2023 12:09 PM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Rohit all praise for Rahul
Rohit emphasised the significance of Rahul’s century in the team’s triumph against Pakistan. “Virat’s innings was brilliantly paced. And then KL, last minute to get back from injury and play 5 minutes before the toss. We told him to get ready. Shows the mindset of the player. Looking at how we batted, there were lots of positives with the openers and then Virat and KL. Fantastic performance, right from yesterday. When we started, we knew the wicket was good and we had to adjust with the rain, The two experienced (Kohli and Rahul) guys we knew they’d take time to get their eye in and then we could get going,” India captain said in a post-match presentation.
- Sep 12, 2023 11:54 AM IST
IND vs SL Live score: ‘Manager had to run to the hotel and get my stuff’
Ishan Kishan had made it utterly impossible for the Indian team to drop him based on his brilliant form in ODIs this year. Shreyas Iyer had made the No.4 spot his own before his long injury layoff. And so, it is difficult to blame Rahul when he says that he had not expected to play at all. Moreover, had he been ready for that, it wouldn’t have given us the comedy of imagining the Indian team manager out of breath in the dressing room with Rahul’s kit and gear, probably holding back a few choice curse words for the star batter as well. How do we know all this happened? Well, Rahul said it himself after the match.
“Five minutes before the toss, Rahul bhai came and told me that I might have to play because Shreyas got a back spasm. And I had not brought any batting gear, did not get my batting t-shirts, or skins. I had come only knowing that I would be carrying water and had brought only one full-sleeved t-shirt, so, at the last minute, the manager had to run to the hotel and get my stuff. But this has not happened for the first time so mentally, I know what to do when I am thrown in the ring,” he said.
- Sep 12, 2023 11:48 AM IST
Asia Cup 2023 Super 4 Live Score: Rahul and Kohli’s better halves
There are very few who really understand what a player goes through when enduring an injury or poor form. Foremost among them, would be their partner and both Rahul and Kohli’s wives expressed their happiness on social media for what the two players achieved against Pakistan yesterday. Anushka Sharma posted a photo of her TV screen featuring Kohli from the match, and wrote “Super knock, super guy (clapping and red heart emojis)!!”
Athiya Shetty, meanwhile, had a note of appreciation for her husband KL Rahul. “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise… You are everything, I love you. #1,” she said.
- Sep 12, 2023 11:37 AM IST
AIndia vs Sri Lanka Live Score: India’s recent record against Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka may have won 13 matches on the trot but today, they are up against an opposition who have beaten them eight times in the last 10 matches between them. The last match between these two is especially one that Dasun Shanaka’s men would love to delete from their collective memories. India scored a whopping 390/5 with Virat Kohli scoring an unbeaten 166 off 110 and Shubman Gill scoring 116 off 97. In response, Sri Lanka were all out for 73 with Mohammed Siraj taking four wickets. India won the match by an eye-watering margin of 317 runs. Talk about a decimation.
- Sep 12, 2023 11:30 AM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score Asia Cup Super 4: Chances of rain
According to AccuWeather, chances of precipitation is 84 percent and there could be intermittent showers throughout the day time. Could be a case of patters all day long or it could be a case of all the rain coming in sheets after a dry spell. Whatever it is, we can expect disruptions.
- Sep 12, 2023 11:20 AM IST
Asia Cup 2023 Super 4 Live Score: If all of India’s matches get washed away…
India beat Pakistan by 228 runs, their highest margin of victory against their arch-rivals and that has gone a long way in ensuring that India will be playing in the title clash. If hypothetically all of India’s matches get washed out from here on, they will be playing Sri Lanka in the final unless there is a shock thrashing in the games involving Pakistan and Sri Lanka. A victory for India today, though, will confirm their qualification to the final.
- Sep 12, 2023 11:12 AM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Only Tedulkar ahead of Kohli… for now
Kohli has now matched Hashim Amla to score the most consecutive centuries at the same venue in ODIs. Amla had four consecutive centuries in Centurion while Kohli has scored as many at the R Premadasa Stadium now. He is the fastest to 13,000 ODI runs. He was already the fastest to 8000, 9000, 10,000, 11,000 and 12,000 ODI runs as well. He is also now just two centuries away from equalling Sachin Tendulkar’s record of 49 ODI centuries. That last one was a stat that most fans and commentators would have thought is untouchable back when Tendulkar got there. Well, Virat Kohli had other plans.
- Sep 12, 2023 11:01 AM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score Asia Cup Super 4: Virat Kohli’s epic vs Pakistan
When India resumed their innings in the reserve day, Kohli was still in single digits. Rahul hit the boundaries early on in their partnership but Kohli never let go of an opportunity to run. It meant that while he had hardly taken any risks, he reached his half century at a strike rate of nearly 90. As he does most of the time, Kohli accelerated after that and soon, he scored his 47th ODI century in just 84 balls. If all that wasn’t enough, he ended the Indian innings with a four off a no ball, a four off the free hit and then a six off the last ball. Kohli finished off unbeaten on 122 off 94 having hit nine fours and three sixes.
- Sep 12, 2023 10:56 AM IST
IND vs SL Live score: KL Rahul’s comeback
KL Rahul’s waning form in T20s and Tests had led to a number of questions on why he should be given an automatic spot in the ODIs, which basically stated that people had forgotten just how many times he had bailed India out in the No.5 position. On Sunday, he walked in at No.4 and paired up with Virat Kohli just when it looked like Pakistan were on the rise. Rahul paced his innings expertly, aggressive enough in the beginning on the reserve day to throw Pakistan off their lines and then slowing or hastening his strike rate when required. He ended up scoring unbeaten 111 off 106 deliveries, his innings laced with 12 fours and two sixes.
- Sep 12, 2023 10:48 AM IST
Asia Cup 2023 Super 4 Live Score: Question mark over Iyer
Rohit had said that Shreyas Iyer has suffered a back spasm because of which he was not available for selection against Pakistan. It is highly unlikely that he will return for this match, especially considering KL Rahul came in and scored a century in that position. There are no details on the injury that Iyer is suffering apart from what Rohit said at the toss, which is that he suffered from back spasms just before the game. It was Iyer’s back that forced him to sit out in a long injury break for all these months and so the fact that it has acted up again might be a cause of worry for the Indians.
- Sep 12, 2023 10:41 AM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Back to back cricket days for India
India have played cricket on Sunday and Monday and if they have a full match today, Tuesday will make it three consecutive days of cricket for them. It has to be noted, though, that their bowlers actively played only yesterday as their batters were out there for the first day of their match against Pakistan and effectively much of the reserve day as well.
Sep 12, 2023 10:23 AM ISTIndia vs Sri Lanka Live Score Asia Cup Super 4: Sri Lanka’s winning streak
Sri Lanka are currently on 13 consecutive ODI wins. This is now the second longest winning streak in the history of ODI cricket, only behind the all-conquering Australia’s 21 between January and May 2003. That run back then had included the entire 2003 World Cup tournament which they had won.
- Sep 12, 2023 10:17 AM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score Asia Cup Super 4: Sri Lanka full squad
Pathum Nissanka, Dimuth Karunaratne, Kusal Mendis(w), Sadeera Samarawickrama, Charith Asalanka, Dhananjaya de Silva, Dasun Shanaka(c), Dunith Wellalage, Maheesh Theekshana, Kasun Rajitha, Matheesha Pathirana, Kusal Perera, Binura Fernando, Pramod Madushan, Dushan Hemantha
- Sep 12, 2023 10:11 AM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score Asia Cup Super 4: India full squad
Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul(w), Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Mohammed Shami, Suryakumar Yadav, Axar Patel, Shreyas Iyer, Prasidh Krishna, Tilak Varma
- Sep 12, 2023 10:07 AM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score Asia Cup Super 4: Colombo weather update
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score: First things first, what’s the weather gonna be like in Colombo today? The predictions are nothing different from the match against Pakistan. In fact, if anything, there is a high chance that the start of today’s India vs Sri Lanka might be a delayed one as there is a storm predicted at around 3 pm (the scheduled start of the match). The forecast does get a little better between 4 and 6 pm but dark clouds are again expected to hover post that taking the chances of rain to 85%. If luck is on our side then we might just be able to get a curtailed game in. Finger Crossed!
- Sep 12, 2023 10:00 AM IST
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score Asia Cup Super 4
India vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Hello and welcome to the live coverage of India vs Sri Lanka Asia Cup Super 4 match at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. Boy, we’ve had no time, quite literally, to catch our breath from the India vs Pakistan match. Spare of thought for the Indian players, who will have to be on the field for three consecutive days now. The incentive is quite big though. If India win today against Sri Lanka, then they more or less seal their qualification for the final. Their net run rate has reached stratospheric heights thanks to the record 228-run win against Pakistan.