Evin Lewis century helps West Indies to consolation ODI win against Sri Lanka

Evin Lewis hit four sixes and nine fours while heading to a 61-ball 102 that procured West Indies a comfort win in the third ODI against Sri Lanka in one more downpour shortened apparatus in Pallekele. Supplementing Lewis' ton was Sherfane Rutherford with a 26-ball 50. Sri Lanka posted 156 for 3 in the 23-overs-a-side installation, passing on West Indies to pursue a mammoth 195 based on DLS technique. Sri Lanka disposed of Brandon Lord and Shai Trust however Lewis and Ruler blitzed their direction to a success with an over and eight wickets in excess. Contrasted with how Sri Lanka got done, their beginning could be viewed as quiet as openers Avishka Fernando and Pathum Nissanka took the group to 47 for 0 out of 10 overs. Nissanka capitalized on the opportunity proposed to him in the primary over whenever Brandon Lord couldn't clutch an extreme opportunity at first slip, to move Sri Lanka along. Indeed, even as the danger of downpour lingered the two openers hardened Sri Lanka's exposition, taking them to 81 for 0 out of 17 overs. On the principal bundle of the eighteenth over, Fernando gave Roston Pursue a return get after which the players were constrained inside as downpour showed up. It kept the players inside for almost the following five hours, before they were on a mission to play the shortened installation. Kusal Mendis accepted the change as an encouragement to face challenges as he hit Pursue for four progressive fours in the equivalent over. While Nissanka got to his fifty, Mendis flew from the opposite end. He trucked nine fours and a six in his 22-ball 56 as Sri Lanka added 75 runs in the 5.4 overs after the downpour break. The re-determined target passed on West Indies with a mountain to ascend and were maybe gazing at a 3-0 series rout. West Indies began well behind the asking rate through Lord and Lewis before the previous hit a conveyance from Asitha Fernando to the profound square leg defender in the 6th over. Lewis and Shai Trust hauled West Indies to 76 for 1 of every 10 overs and were still far at a major disadvantage. In the twelfth over, Lewis got to a 34-ball 50 even as the game began to get away from the guests' grip. Things slipped further as Trust's worked stay was then finished in the fifteenth over by Dilshan Madushanka - a wicket that unintentionally offered West Indies the chance in the arm they required as Rutherford joined Lewis. The pair hauled Sri Lanka to 125 for 2 out of 17 overs, with the situation presently perusing: 70 runs off 36 balls. The pair gradually turned the screws on Sri Lanka from here as they hit three fours off Charith Asalanka in a 14-run eighteenth over. Rutherford then dismantled Theekshana for 18 - two sixes and a four, that brought the objective down to 38 off 24. Fernando nailed his full lengths outside the off-stump however the pair shrewdly took singles after Rutherford got an early limit in the over, to take 10 off it. Rutherford then cut a Madushanka yorker for a four and Lewis hit him for a six to move into the 90s and take the game by the mess of its neck. 15 off 12 was quickly decreased to 5 off 7 as Rutherford tonked one more six over lengthy on in the 22nd over from Fernando. Lewis then, at that point, fittingly completed the game with a straight six that likewise procured him his remarkable 100 years.