India defeats Sri Lanka by 10 wickets to clinch 8th Asia Cup title,Mohammed Siraj stars with 6 wickets

India vs Sri Lanka, Asia Cup 2023: In the Asia Cup on Sunday, India defeated the home team Sri Lanka by 10 wickets in the final and won the title. In fact, India had to complete only the formalities to score 51 runs. And both its openers Shubman Gill (27 not out), Ishan Kishan (23 not out) gave a fast start and defeated Sri Lanka by 10 wickets in just 6.1 overs. And if this was possible, then the biggest responsible behind it was Mohammad Siraj, who badly defeated the home batsmen in the first innings. After this crushing defeat, Sri Lanka must have seen in the mirror where its cricket has reached. Mohammad Siraj was chosen player of the match.

Earlier, in the first innings of Sri Lanka , Indian pacer Mohammad Siraj took out the Sri Lankan batting badly and bowled it out for just 50 runs. Siraj took six wickets and Hardik Pandya took three wickets. Kusal Mendis scored the maximum 17 runs for Sri Lanka. Jasprit Bumrah spoiled the start of Sri Lanka by getting Kusal Perera (0) caught by KL Rahul on the third ball of the first over.

And then from here came such a tsunami of Mohammed Siraj that Sri Lanka was swept away by it. And within no time his 6 wickets fell by only 12 runs. This included five wickets including 3 taken by Siraj in one over.

In fact, if Virat Kohli's over-throw had not yielded six runs, the host team would not have even been able to touch this figure. After Siraj, when Hardik Pandya came on the attack, he also attacked Lanka at regular intervals. And within no time the entire Sri Lankan team collapsed for 50 runs in just 15.2 overs. In this, Mohammad Sihaj took six wickets, Hardik took three and Bumrah took one wicket.

Earlier, Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat first in the match and also made changes in the XI, but both these aspects proved to be disastrous for him. And the Sri Lankan team was reduced to the second lowest score in its ODI history. The final XIs of both the countries that played in the match were as follows:

India XI

Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj.

Sri Lanka XI

Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Perera, Kusal Mendis (wk), Sadira Samarawickrama, Charith Asalanka, Dhananjay de Silva, Dasun Shanaka (c), Dunith Welles, Dushan Hemantha, Pramod Madushan, Mathisha Pathirana.

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