Vandersay six-fer stuns India as Sri Lanka go 1-0 up

Jeffrey Vandersay's six-wicket pull and a batting rearguard from Dunith Wellalage and Kamindu Mendis assisted Sri Lanka with beating India by 32 runs in the second ODI and take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series. The loss closes India's succession of 11 sequential two-sided ODI series wins (2+ matches) against Sri Lanka, their last misfortune returning to December 1997. Picking to bat first, Sri Lanka were once reeling at 136/6 when Wellalage and Mendis added 72 runs for the seventh wicket and took the side to an extremely serious complete of 240/9 on another sluggish, low pitch at the R Premadasa Arena in Colombo, in what was the 150th ODI at the scene. India weren't exactly ready to pursue an objective of 231 recently and this time, they had one more 10 rushes to pursue on what was a generally more slow pitch. So it was anything but an unexpected that Rohit Sharma came out all weapons bursting and piled up a 29-ball fifty, his fourth inside the initial 10 overs of an ODI. Alongside Gill, Rohit added 97 runs for the principal wicket, hitting 5 fours and 4 sixes and taking a significant piece off the objective. Yet, when the India skipper tumbled to an opposite clear, India slid into an enormous breakdown by and by and lost six wickets for 50 runs. Each of the six wickets were to Vandersay in what was the principal example of the initial six wickets tumbling to a spinner. Gill and Shivam Dube died in similar over, the previous to a one-gave shocker from Mendis in the slips. Dube, thus, was caught lbw in front by a legbreak. Ten balls later, Virat Kohli was likewise stuck in front by a flipper, whenever the veteran hitter first had fallen lbw to a spinner in consecutive innings. Vandersay finished his lady five-wicket pull by catching Shreyas Iyer with a googly, turning out to be just the second legspinner to pick five wickets against India in ODIs. He then proceeded to pick his 6th when KL Rahul hacked on and wrapped up with figures of 6 for 33. Washington Sundar and Axar Patel then, at that point, steadied India with a 38-run stand yet Charith Asalanka sent both those hitters back in the structure in sequential overs, everything except fixing the counterpart for his side. India were bowled out for 208 in 42.2 overs, losing nine wickets to turn. Prior in the day, Sri Lanka lost in-structure Pathum Nissanka off the principal wad of the match to an outswinger from Mohammed Siraj however Avishka Fernando (40) and Kusal Mendis (30) added 74 runs for the second wicket to consistent the hosts with an organization that needed to step past Siraj's five-over opening spell mindfully. The organization looked a long way from settled even at its top, as you would expect on a surface aiding the spinners every step of the way, and took Washington Sundar nine balls into his spell to break the stand with a main edge from Fernando that popped right back to the spinner. Sundar would circle back to Mendis' wicket in his next finished, sending Sri Lanka back into recuperation mode with two new hitters at the wrinkle. Sadeera Samarawickrama and Charith Asalanka didn't have it simple against the Indian spinners and both died to them; Samarawickrama confused a trudge against Axar while attempting to break the shackles though Asalanka was surprised by a turning-skipping conveyance and offered a basic catch to short third man. Sandwiched between the two wickets was a strike by Kuldeep Yadav, who was brought into the assault just in the twentieth over and bowled a tightfisted initial five overs prior to being compensated with the wicket of Janith Liyanage in his 6th. At 136/6 toward the finish of 35 overs, Sri Lanka thoroughly searched in a touch of trouble yet tracked down far-fetched legends in Dunith Wellalage (39) and Kamindu Mendis (40), the pair disappointing India towards the end and mounting the all out beyond 200. It obviously didn't help that Mendis was dropped on 11 by Shivam Dube. Wellalage took as much time as is needed however once in, he pleased with a couple of limits, remembering a four and six off Axar for the 44th over and six off Siraj in the following. He was gotten by Dube at diminutive third man however not before he had figured out how to scratch India. Mendis was run out just off the penultimate bundle of the innings, because of a sharp exertion from Shreyas Iyer. Mendis and Akila Dananjaya dealt with a couple of limits in the last two or three overs as 79 runs were scored in the last 10. The seamers bowled their 19 overs for 111/1, more than balancing the splendid exertion by the spinners who joined to pick 112/6 in their 31 overs, and the additional runs hurt the guests eventually. Brief Scores: Sri Lanka 240/9 (Mendis 40, Fernando 40, Wellalage 39; Sundar 3-30, Kuldeep 2-33) beat India 208 all out in 42.2 overs (Rohit 64; Vandersay 6-33) by 32 runs