{"id":516,"date":"2014-02-28T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/sri-lanka-beat-india-by-2-wickets-in-asia-cup\/"},"modified":"2014-02-28T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T17:04:00","slug":"sri-lanka-beat-india-by-2-wickets-in-asia-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka beat India by 2 wickets in Asia Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brief scores:<\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
India:<\/b><\/span> <\/span><\/b><\/span>264\/9 in 50 overs (Shikhar Dhawan 94, Virat Kohli 48; Ajantha Mendis 4\/60, Sachitra Senanayake 3\/41)<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

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Sri Lanka:<\/b><\/span> <\/span><\/b><\/span>265\/8 in 49.2 overs (Kumar Sangakkara 103, Kusal Perera 64; Ravindra Jadeja 3\/30).<\/span><\/div>\n
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Sri Lanka defeated India by two wickets to record their second win in the Asia Cup in Fatullah on Friday.<\/span><\/div>\n
Sent into bat, India posted 264\/9 in the stipulated 50 overs, and then saw Sri Lanka chase down the 265-run target with four balls to spare at the Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Earlier, Opener Shikhar Dhawan missed out on a century by six runs as spinner Ajantha Mendis returned to haunt India by restricting them to 264 for nine against Sri Lanka.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Sent into bat, Dhawan (94) and captain Virat Kohli (48) led India\u2019s recovery in a 97-run second-wicket partnership, before Mendis, more than three years after his mystery was decoded by the Indian batsmen, came back to trouble them with figures of 4\/60 at the Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Mendis castled Kohli and Dhawan with his carrom ball while offspinner Sachitra Senanayake scalped 3\/41 as India\u2019s new-look middle order sorely missed Mahendra Singh Dhoni.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Thanks to the duo\u2019s exploits, India slipped after being comfortably placed at 175 for two in the 36th over.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Ajinkya Rahane (22), Ambati Rayudu (18) and Dinesh Karthik (4) looked good but could not covert their starts, while Stuart Binny did not trouble the scorers after being out for a zero.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Having come into the limelight with his career-best 6\/13 against India in Karachi in 2008, Mendis got a reality check after the currently out-of-favour Vireder Sehwag unleashed his fury on him the next year.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
But that was then and on this day Mendis, who was included in place of medium pacer Suranga Kamal, did not let the Lankans down.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
The pitch behaved differently with the ball staying low right from the very first over. It was the perfect condition to test the openers who were in the middle of a prolonged lean patch.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Sharma, particularly, struggled against the odd ball as Sri Lanka, who were playing with three specialist spinners, brought on offie Senanayake in the sixth over.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Lanka seemed in perfect control, conceding only 37 runs in the first power play which also yielded Sharma\u2019s wicket.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
After all his struggle, Sharma\u2019a anxious stay finally came to an end when he got to out to a dubious decision.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Umpire Nigel Llong ruled the batsman out despite being long way down the track.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
The breakthrough incidentally turned around India\u2019s fortunes with last match centurion Kohli starting off with a boundary.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
At the other end, Dhawan looked to have got his fluency back and Kohli\u2019s reassuring presence further calmed the left-hander\u2019s nerves.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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Brief scores: India: 264\/9 in 50 overs (Shikhar Dhawan 94, Virat Kohli 48; Ajantha Mendis 4\/60, Sachitra Senanayake 3\/41) Sri Lanka: 265\/8 in 49.2 overs (Kumar Sangakkara 103, Kusal Perera 64; Ravindra Jadeja 3\/30). Sri Lanka defeated India by two wickets to record their second win in the Asia Cup in Fatullah on Friday. Sent into bat, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}