India Beat Sri Lanka In Super Over To Win Asia Cup Thriller

Match Summary

• India beat Sri Lanka in a Super Over in the Asia Cup.
• India lost the toss and batted first, posting 202/5 in 20 overs.
• Abhishek Sharma made 61 from 31 balls with 8 fours and 2 sixes.
• Tilak Varma was left on 49 from 34 balls, and Sanju Samson made 39 from 23 balls.
• Sri Lanka chased hard and equaled the score, totaling 202/5 in 20 overs.
• Pathum Nissanka scored 107 from 58 balls including 7 fours and 6 sixes.
• Kusal Perera scored 58 from 32 balls.
• The match was tied, so a Super Over had to be played.

Super Over Result

• Sri Lanka first batted and managed a mere 2 runs off 2 wickets in 5 balls, thanks to Arshdeep Singh's great bowling.
• India chased the score in one ball alone, scoring 3 runs.
• India secured the win, while Nissanka was awarded Player of the Match for his century.

Nissanka's Century Saves Sri Lanka

• Sri Lanka nearly emerged victorious while chasing 203 runs.
• They lost Kusal Mendis for a duck in the beginning, but Nissanka constructed a good partnership with Kusal Perera.
• The duo scored 127 runs together, and Sri Lanka went to 114/1 in 10 overs.
• Perera scored 58 runs before being stumped by Varun Chakravarthy.
• At 15 overs, Sri Lanka were 157/2, requiring 46 off 30 balls.
• Charith Asalanka was cheaply dismissed by Kuldeep Yadav.
• Kamindu Mendis was dismissed shortly afterwards by Arshdeep Singh.
• Nissanka scored his first T20I century in 52 balls.
• Sri Lanka required 23 from 12 balls.
• The 19th over yielded 11 runs, leaving 12 needed off the last over.
• Harshit Rana got Nissanka out on the first ball of the 20th over.
• The final ball needed 3 runs, but Sri Lanka only managed 2.

The game was tied and progressed to a Super Over.

Indian bowlers divided the wickets: Hardik Pandya, Varun Chakravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, and Harshit Rana each took one.

India's Batting Performance

• India's batting began on a poor note.
• Shubman Gill got out for 4 with 15 on the scoreboard.
• Abhishek Sharma then joined Suryakumar Yadav and attacked the bowlers.
• Abhishek finished his third successive half-century in 22 deliveries.
• He was out for 61 runs.
• India reached 100/3 at 10 overs.

Momentum was created by Tilak Varma and Sanju Samson in the middle overs.

• Samson made 39 runs before being dismissed.
• Hardik Pandya followed soon.
• Tilak Varma, aided by Axar Patel, took India over 200 runs.

For Sri Lanka, Theekshana, Chameera, Hasaranga, Shanaka, and Asalanka shared wickets and took one each.