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Match 44: India vs Sri Lanka - ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 Post Match Summary

It was a convincing win to India before they march to the Semis! The match 44 of the ICC Men’s WC was happened between India and Sri Lanka on July 6th, 2019, at Headingley Cricket Ground, Leeds, England by 10:30 am the local time. The toss was won by the Sri Lankan captain Dimuth Karunaratne and elected to bat 1st.

First Innings :

It is the last game for both the teams on the round-robin format on the league matches. It was the Sri Lankan skipper Dimuth Karunaratne and wicket-keeper batsman Kusal Perera who both opened the innings as they lack in confidence and form who is playing against the big team in this format as the Captain went early for just 10 off 17 balls with 2 boundaries included. He was followed by Kusal Perera who also failed to perform well even in this match as he went out for 18 off 14 balls with 3 fours included. Then came Avishka Fernando and Kusal Mendis who also departed in the Sri Lankan batting line-up next to next. As Fernando departed in Hardik Pandya’s ball caught behind by MS Dhoni for 20 off 21 deliveries with 4 boundaries included followed by Kusal Mendis who was stumped by Dhoni bowled a brilliant delivery by Ravindra Jadeja who finally found his spot in the playing XIs. Kusal Mendis departed for just 3 off balls. It was then a matured innings started building between the well experienced Angelo Mathews and the Left-hand batsman Lahiru Thirimanne who plays his 2nd WC tournament as both built a century partnership for the 5th wicket for 124 runs. After the healthy partnership, it was Lahiru Thirimanne who secured his 3rd WC half-century departed for 53 off 68 balls with 4 boundaries included. The dismissal of Lahiru Thirimanne was blinder by Ravindra Jadeja who caught a sensational catch at long-on as Kuldeep bowled a tempted delivery. Then it was Dhananjaya de Silva who came in the middle to partner with Angelo Mathews who was in good touch for only the 2nd time in the tournament.
The partnership for the 6th wicket is also the key to the innings as they put on 74 runs off 63 balls. Angelo Mathews marked his maiden WC century and 3rd Ton in ODIs who contributed 113 off 128 balls with 10 fours and 2 sixes included. On the other end it was Dhananjaya de Silva who supported so well, was unbeaten 29 off 36 balls with only 1 boundary included. It was the world no.1 bowler Jasprit Bumrah who was in the top of the list of picking 3 wickets as rest all the bowlers picked 1 wicket each. Thus the Sri Lankans finally made 264 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in their complete 50 overs.

Second Innings :

It was the Indian top orders who completely dominated the chase. Yes, it was KL Rahul and the Indian vice-captain Rohit Sharma who began the chase on a positive note as the partnership for 1st wicket went on for 189 runs off 181 balls. This 189 run is India’s highest opening or 1st wicket partnership in the history of World Cups. The “Hit-man” Rohit Sharma created a new world record by registering his 5th World Cup century in a single WC edition who broke the record of Kumara Sangakkara’s 4 centuries. Rohit by this also equals his former teammate Sachin Tendulkar who had totally marked 6 which is the maximum no of centuries in the history of World Cups. Rohit who secured after his 27th ODI Ton departed for 103 off 94 balls with 14 boundaries and 2 sixes included. On the other side, it was KL Rahul finally marked his maiden WC century as he departed after making the Indian team win in a comfortable position for 111 off 118 balls with 11 fours and a six included. It was the world no.1 batsman the Indian skipper Virat Kohli who batted till the comfortable victory as he was unbeaten for 34 off 41 deliveries with 4 boundaries and a six included. Rishabh Pant who got an excellent opportunity to complete the innings departed for just 4 off 4 balls with that only boundary. In the end, it was Hardik Pandya who faced the winning runs with an unbeaten 7 off 4 balls with that only boundary. The Lankan bowlers did not find any opportunity to have crucial breakthroughs it’s only the Indian batsmen who gave their wicket. While the vast experienced Lasith Malinga who played his last WC tournament picked only 1 wicket and ended with an expensive note for 82 in his last 10 over spell in World Cup. The left-arm medium pacer Isuru Udana and the WC debutant Kasun Rajitha picked 1 wicket each. Thus, India reached the target of 265 in 43.3 overs.



Man of the Match(MOM): It’s the “Hit-man” Rohit Sharma grabbed the Man of the Match award who scored 103 in 94 deliveries.

Records: It’s Rohit Sharma broke the record of the former Sri Lankan wicket-keeper batsman Kumara Sangakkara who made 4 WC centuries as Rohit as made 5 in one WC tournament.

Rohit also equals the record of his former teammate Sachin Tendulkar by marking 6 WC centuries which is the maximum no of Hundreds in the history of World Cups.

It’s Lokesh Rahul who marked his 1st WC Ton and also holds the record of the 1st Indian to score Centuries in all the 3 formats in England soil.

Rohit who is now in the 3rd position of being most runs scored in the history of WC who made 648 next to Sachin Tendulkar’s 673 runs in 2003 WC and Mathew Hayden’s 659 runs 2007 WC.

Rohit also became the quickest player to secure 6 centuries in just 17 innings as Sachin totally played 44 innings out of 45 matches.