Tuesday, February 9, 2016

India Wilts Under Pressure

Sri Lanka refreshingly exhibited what a skilled side with a battling soul can accomplish even against gigantic chances. Straddling on Kasun Rajitha's infiltrating overs with the new ball, it grabbed a great chance to incur an amazement rout on India in the principal match of the three-match Twenty20 arrangement at the Maharashtra Cricket Association International Stadium here on Tuesday.

The guests lost its openers halfway through the fifth over, yet captain Dinesh Chandimal and Chamara Kapugedara put on the most astounding association of the match and guaranteed that their group will travel to Ranchi with 1-0 lead. Brought after 11 overs,
off-spinner R. Ashwin caught two wickets, with Suresh Raina culling a full-blooded breadth by Dasun Shanaka when all expectations had really vanished for the home group.





The guests might have scored a group win, yet without uncertainty Rajitha was the toast of the match. Quick bowlers come in various physical characteristics, by and large demonstrate their backbone by their capacity to create speed and concentrate disturbing ricochet and coordinated towards the body and on events make the batsmen shudder in their boots.

The strapping Rajitha, a tyro unquestionably in global cricket, can claim to have made the Indian batsmen anxious wrecks in his first over and spell itself. He had such an awesome effect, to the point that India could summon just an insignificant 101, that too on account of the individual brightness of Ashwin, who added to the rearguard with Ashish Nehra.

Playing his first match for Sri Lanka, the Matara-conceived 22-year-old looked every last bit a pace trader in his opening burst of three overs when he scalped the wickets of Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane and Shikhar Dhawan, and straightway pushed India to the brink of collapse. Rajitha's sharp and momentous first over in which he made Rohit crash under the control of Dushmantha Chameeera at mid-off and afterward impelled a main edge from Rahane, elevated to No. 3 without Virat Kohli, conveyed to the fore the capacities of a youthful quick bowler who has been a find in the Twenty20 household cricket at home and all the more essentially lifted the cooperation.

Whether the surface with a reasonable grass cover right over the length of the pitch, as readied by previous State quick bowler Pandurang Salgaonkar, had anything to do with the introductory achievement of Rajitha and later of medium-pacer Dasun Shanaka, is a matter of guess, yet the home group seemed to have shriveled under amazing weight brought upon by Rajitha, who finished his opening spell of three overs with the wicket of Dhawan, playing a shocking shot in the circumstances and offering a catch to Danushka Gunathilake at third man.

The defender had before let off Suresh Raina similarly situated. It was a day India neglected to see the potential in Rajitha, Shanaka furthermore Dhushmantha Chameera, who represented the wicket of Yuvraj Singh, subsequent to being hit on the body and protective cap. The circumstance called for astute and savvy batting from Dhawan and Raina, however both chose to take the Sri Lankan seamers head on and skilled their wickets. By the tenth over, India was in doldrums losing the wicket of Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh. On the off chance that Rajitha startled and stunned the Indian top request, Shanaka crushed the spirit with a three-wicket spell.

Coming at No. 9, Ashwin stemmed the decay by really playing such as an in fact very much prepared batsman. His association with Nehra for 28 runs took India to 100 after which Jasprit Bumrah's way out after a misfield conveyed a near the principal session, with seven balls going waste. Rajitha and Shanaka might have caught six wickets together, yet the Indian batsmen did not indicate bravery and get up and go keeping in mind the end goal to offer a fitting riposte. It was a bumbling presentation by Dhoni's group.

India: Rohit Sharma c Chameera b Rajitha 0 (2b), Shikhar Dhawan c Gunathilaka b Rajitha 9 (13b, 1 x 6), Ajinkya Rahane c Chandimal b Rajitha 4 (4b, 1 x 4), Suresh Raina b Shanaka 20 (20b, 1 x 4, 1 x6), Yuvraj Singh c and b Chameera 10 (14b, 1 x 6), M.S.Dhoni c Dickwella b Shanaka 2 (2b), Hardik Pandya lbw b Shanaka 2 (6b), Ravindra Jadeja lbw b Senanayake 6 (9b), Ravichandran Ashwin not out 31 (24b, 5 x 4s), Ashish Nehra c Siriwardena b Chameera 6 (19b), Jasprit Bumrah run out (Chandimal) 0 (1b), Extras (b-1, lb-2,w-8) 11, Total (in 18.5 overs) 101

Fall of wkts: 0-1 (Sharma), 5-2 (Rahane), 32-3 (Dhawan), 49-4 (Raina). 51-5 (Dhoni), 53-6 (Yuvraj Singh) , 58-7 (Pandya), 72-8 (Jadeja), 100-9 (Nehra)

Sri Lanka knocking down some pins: Kasun Rajitha 4-0-29-3, Thisara Perera 3-1-10-0, Sachithra Senanayake 3-0-18-1, Dushmantha Chameera 3.5-0-14-2, Dasun Shanaka 3-0-16-3, Seekuge Prasanna 2-0-11-0

Sri Lanka: Niroshan Dickwella c Dhawan b Nehra 4 (3b, 1 x 4), Danushka Gunathilake c Dhawan b Nehra 9 (18b), Dinesh Chandimal 35 (35b, 1 x 4, 2 x 6s),Chamara Kapugedara lbw b Ashwin 25 (26b, 4 x 4s), Milinda Siriwardena not out 21 (14b, 2 x 4s, 1 x 6), Dasun Shanaka c Raina b Ashwin 3 (8b), Seekuge Prasanna not out 3 (4b) Extras (lb-3,w-2) 5, Total (for 5 wkts in 18 overs) 105

Fall of wkts: 1-4 (Dickwella), 2-23 (Gunathilake), 3-62 (Kapugedara), 4-84 (Chandimal), 5-91 (Shanaka)

India rocking the bowling alley: Ashish Nehra 3-0-21-2, Jasprit Bumrah 4-1-19-0,Ravindra Jadeja 3-0-18-0, Hardik Pandya 3-0-18-0, Ashwin 3-0-13-2, Suresh Raina 2-0-13-1.