Vaibhav gave water to Sri Lanka in the final, India won the ODI tri series
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India A vs Sri Lanka A ODI Tri Series Final Highlights: India A had given the target of 378 runs to Sri Lanka A with the stormy 94 runs of 15 year old young sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi and 67 runs captaincy innings of Tilak Verma. In reply, the host team could not even play the entire over and collapsed for 311 runs. Vaibhav Suryavanshi was chosen player of the match for his excellent batting.
India-A won the ODI tri-series by defeating Sri Lanka-A in the final.
New Delhi. The India-A team, captained by Tilak Verma, won the glittering trophy by defeating the host Sri Lanka-A by 66 runs in the final match of the ODI tri-series played in Dambulla. In the title match of this Tri-Nation series played between Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and India, Sri Lanka won the toss and invited India to bat first. The Sri Lankan bowlers looked completely helpless in front of the storm of the Indian batsmen, especially the young opener Vaibhav Suryavanshi. In response to India’s mountain-like target of 377 runs, Sri Lanka A team was all out for 311 runs. Vaibhav Suryavanshi was chosen Player of the Match for his match-winning innings with a strike rate of more than 300.
94 runs in 29 balls… Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s storm
Vaibhav Suryavanshi, who continued to face the rigors of big innings in the series, had a strong run in the title match. Coming to bat first, this opening batsman gave such an explosive start to India-A which the Sri Lankan bowlers will not be able to forget for a long time. Vaibhav played an explosive inning of 94 runs at an incredible strike rate of 324.14 in just 29 balls, hitting fours and sixes all around the field. In this innings he hit 10 fours and 8 skyscraper sixes. He along with Priyansh Arya (39 runs) had decided the course of the match by making a partnership of 132 runs for the first wicket in just 8.5 overs.
Vaibhav Suryavanshi played a stormy innings.
Made a world record by scoring a half century in 11 balls
At the age of just 15, Vaibhav Suryavanshi is breaking records one after the other. During his stormy innings against Sri Lanka A, he made a world record in List A cricket by scoring a half-century in just 11 balls. He has become the batsman to score the fastest half-century in List A cricket. Vaibhav broke the record of Sri Lankan batsman Kaushalya Weeraratne, who scored a half-century in 12 balls.
Explosive batting of captain Tilak Verma and Anukul Roy
After Vaibhav’s dismissal, captain Tilak Verma took charge and played a captaincy inning of 67 runs on 90 balls. Ruturaj Gaikwad also made an important contribution of 40 runs. In the middle order, Kumar Kushagra scored 36 runs, while in the last overs, Anukul Roy wreaked havoc, scoring unbeaten 39 runs with the help of 4 sixes in just 15 balls. Thanks to this, India-A scored a huge score of 377 runs after losing 9 wickets in the stipulated 50 overs. For Sri Lanka, Vanujaa Sahan, Ravindu Fernando and Kugathas Mathulan took 2-2 wickets.
Sri Lanka A had a bad start
Sri Lanka A had a very bad start while chasing the huge target. Indian fast bowler Yash Thakur bowled tightly and did not allow the top order to survive. Avishka Fernando (3) and Niroshan Dickwella (25) returned to the pavilion cheaply. Sadira Samarawickrama scored 52 runs and captain Sahan Arachige tried to control the innings by scoring 38 runs, but they failed to maintain the run pace.
India-A won the ODI tri-series.
Vanujaa Sahan’s struggle in vain, Lankan team restricted to 311
In the lower order, Vanuj Sahan batted brilliantly and scored 62 runs in 69 balls and along with Vijaykant Vyaskanth (39 runs) troubled the Indian bowlers a bit, but the Indian spinners and fast bowlers took wickets at regular intervals and eliminated Sri Lanka from the match. The entire Sri Lankan team was all out for 311 runs in 47.1 overs.
Killer bowling of Yash Thakur and Vipraj Nigam
In this title victory of India-A, the bowlers supported the batsmen very well. Fast bowler Yash Thakur took 3 wickets for 45 runs in 7 overs, while spinner Vipraj Nigam also took 3 important wickets for 60 runs. Spinner Anukul Roy also bowled hard and gave away 42 runs to two Sri Lankan batsmen. Captain Tilak Verma also got 1 success.
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