Sri Lanka won the Tri-Nation series held in West Indies for the first time. On the other hand, India, who won the Champions Trophy a few days ago, seems to have fallen out of their orbit. After their loss against West Indies, their helpless surrender against Sri Lanka today. With a huge win of 161 runs, Sri Lanka now has 5 points with a bonus, while the West Indies are at the top with 9 points after winning two consecutive matches. India is in a very bad position in terms of points table and run rate without winning a single match. They have only two more chances ahead. It should be noted that Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has already withdrawn from the Tri-Nation series due to injury.
India won the toss and decided to field. It turned out to be a disaster for Sri Lanka. They brought down the Indian bowling lineup to the level of neighborhood bowlers. Tharanga-Jayawardhan's opening stand of 213 in 38.4 overs knocked India out of the match immediately. After playing an innings of 107 runs off 112 balls, Jayawardene departed after being caught by Yadav off Ashwin. But even that did not save, in the last 11 overs Tharanga-Mathews made a pair of 135 runs. At the end of 50 overs, Sri Lanka's collection stood at 348 after losing 1 wicket. After six months, Tharanga celebrated his return to the team by scoring 174 runs off 159 balls.
How much Tharanga-Jayawardene controlled the Indian bowlers in the entire match can be understood by looking at the score board. Shami Ahmed-Ravi Ashwin gave 68 and 67 runs respectively in 10 overs. Ishant Sharma-Rabindra Jadeja bowled 9 overs and scored 68 and 55. Yadav took the most hits in the match. 68 runs came from him by bowling 8 overs. Along with Tharanga-Jayawardhan, the small storm of 44 runs from 29 balls by Lankan captain Mathews at the end of the innings has also troubled India. An additional 23 runs came from the Indian bowlers.
Burdened by the mountain of 348 runs, India is very lazy. India, known to have the strongest batting line-up in the world, could not put up any resistance in chasing runs. Maximum 49 runs came from the bat of Ravindra Jadeja. India could score 187 runs after losing all wickets in 44.5 overs on the back of Suresh Raina's 33 and Murali Vijay's 30. Every Sri Lankan bowler has had success bowling against India. Rangana Herath took maximum 3 wickets. Also Malinga-Senanaike got 2 wickets each and Kulasekara-Mathews 1 wicket each.
Kulasekara returned Rohit Sharma for 12 runs in 4.2 overs of the Indian innings. Chasing huge runs, India lost the first wicket in the beginning and could not return to their game in the whole match. Dhawan-Vijay managed the first blow, but Dhawan, who had responded to the Champions Trophy, was helplessly out after playing an innings of 24 runs for 42 runs. After that, Kohli-Karthik-Raina made their way to the pavilion at regular intervals. In the end Ravindra Jadeja was unbeaten with a personal 49 runs.
Reacting to Man of the Match's 174-run innings, Upul Tharanga said, "Having returned to the team after six months, my confidence is high now. Mahela's entire credit for this. He encouraged me throughout the match, scored a century himself. After the century we had only 10/12 overs left. I wanted to beat, and luck was with me. Such a big win will be very helpful for us after a disappointing performance in the Champions Trophy."
According to Mahela, “The start has been great. But they kept us under pressure for the first 10 overs, bowling well, but slowly we took control of them, and it turned out we played pretty well!”
Kohli, who took on the duties of apparent captain after the match loss, said, "We didn't get the quick start we needed to chase 349 runs. After such a good batting, the Lankan bowling was also very good. We didn't get a chance to match ourselves. But we have 2 more matches ahead of us. India will surely return to form."
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