Vandersay Six-fer Stuns India As Sri Lanka Go 1-0 Up || Their Last Loss Going Back To December 1997

Vandersay Six-fer Stuns India As Sri Lanka Go 1-0 Up || Their Last Loss Going Back To December 1997

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Jeffrey Vandersay's six-wicket haul and a batting rearguard from Dunith Wellalage and Kamindu Mendis helped Sri Lanka beat India by 32 runs in the second ODI and take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series. The defeat ends India's sequence of 11 consecutive bilateral ODI series wins (2+ matches) against Sri Lanka, their last loss going back to December 1997.
Opting 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 a very competitive total of 240/9 on another slow, low pitch at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, in what was the 150th ODI at the venue.
India weren't quite able to chase a target of 231 the other day and this time, they had another 10 runs to chase on what was a relatively slower pitch. So it wasn't a surprise that Rohit Sharma came out all guns blazing and racked up a 29-ball fifty, his fourth inside the first 10 overs of an ODI.