India beat Sri Lanka by nine wickets in 3rd T20I

Visakhapatnam, Feb 15: India defeated Sri Lanka by nine wickets in their third T20 International here on Sunday to win the three-match series 2-1.

Chasing a paltry total of 82 runs, India cruised to the target in 13.5 overs. They lost only one wicket in the process and reached the target with 37 balls remaining.

Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, who was declared Man of the Match, had earlier helped bowl out the visitors with figures of 4/4.

The following is the scoreboard of the third and final T20 International between India and Sri Lanka at the Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium here on Sunday.

Sri Lanka:

Niroshan Dickwella st Dhoni b Ashwin 1
Tillakaratne Dilshan lbw b Ashwin 1
Dinesh Chandimal c Pandya b Ashwin 8
Asela Gunaratne c Raina b Ashwin 4
Milinda Siriwardana b Nehra 4
Dasun Shanaka b Ravindra Jadeja 19
Seekkuge Prasanna run out (R Jadeja) 9
Thisara Perera c Ravindra Jadeja b Raina 12
Sachithra Senanayake c Dhoni b Raina 8
Dushmantha Chameera not out 9
Dilhara Fernando b Bumrah 1

Extras (b 0, lb 2, w 3, nb 1, p 0) 6

Total 82 (for 10 wickets in 18 overs)

Fall of wickets: 2-1 (Niroshan Dickwella, 0.3 overs), 3-2 (Tillakaratne Dilshan, 0.6), 12-3 (Dinesh Chandimal, 2.1), 20-4 (Asela Gunaratne, 4.2), 21-5 (Milinda Siriwardana, 5.1), 48-6 (Seekkuge Prasanna, 7.5), 54-7 (Dasun Shanaka, 10.3), 72-8 (Sachithra Senanayake, 15.2), 73-9 (Thisara Perera, 15.4), 82-10 (Dilhara Fernando, 17.6)

Bowling:
Ravichandran Ashwin 4-1-8-4
Ashish Nehra 2-0-17-1
Jasprit Bumrah 3-0-10-1
Ravindra Jadeja 4-1-11-1
Yuvraj Singh 1-0-15-0
Hardik Pandya 2-0-13-0
Suresh Raina 2-0-6-2

India:

Rohit Sharma lbw b Chameera 13
Shikhar Dhawan not out 46
Ajinkya Rahane not out 22

Extras (b 0, lb 3, w 0, nb 0, p 0) 3

Total 84 (1 wicket, 13.5 overs)

Fall of Wickets: 29-1 (Rohit Sharma, 5.2 overs)

Bowling:

Sachithra Senanayake 4-0-22-0
Dilhara Fernando 2-0-7-0
Dushmantha Chameera 2-0-14-1
Seekkuge Prasanna 1-0-3-0
Milinda Siriwardana 1-0-9-0
Asela Gunaratne 2.5-0-22-0
Tillakaratne Dilshan 1-0-4-0

Toss – India, chose to field
Umpires – V.A. Kulkarni and C.K. Nandan
TV umpire – A.K. Chaudhary
Match referee – J.J. Crowe (New Zealand)
Reserve umpire – P.G. Pathak
(IANS)