A merciless India subjected Sri Lanka to a tour whitewash after the fifties from skipper Virat Kohli and Manish Pandey secured their seven-wicket victory in the one-off T20 Internatio🅰nal on Wednesday.
Whitewashed in the three-Test series and blanked 5-0 in the preceding one-dayers, Sri Lanka posted 170-7, a total they hoped would be enough to end the string of losses which has enraged their fans and prompted the sꦅelecto♓rs to resign en masse.
There was ওno respite for them, however, as Kohli blasted 82 and Manish Pandey smashed 51 not out to help India romp home with four balls to spare.
Here is how the cricketing fraternity reacted to Team India’s victory:
India started this series as f❀avourites but to overwhelm the oppositio🌺n 9-0 is quite staggering.
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha)
Wonderful support performance by . Realised it was Kohli's chase and kept finding himself at the non-striker's end.
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha)
Seen it so many times but can't stop admiring how structures a run-chase. Almost like it were like a canvas to paint as he chooses
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha)
Wrist spin and T20 cricket….this relationship is one for the keeps. Chahal-Kuldeep have turned the tide in India's favour
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash)
Congratulations Top notch in every way⭕.Have been f🍰antastic Ambassadors. Its been a treat having them on D field and especially off it.
— Russel Arnold (@RusselArnold69)
That's a complete sweep by India winning the Test, ODI and T20 series vs Sri Lanka. Well done team 👏🏻👏🏻. Good work and consistency 👍🏻
— Anjum Chopra (@chopraanjum)
What a chase from – another supreme innings wins him the Man of the Match award!
— ICC (@ICC)
With some captains you get a bit of leniency but with Virat Kohli you get none. Poor Sri Lanka.😔
Well done India!— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar)
Well playeཧd & . Brilliant way to wrap Series 👌 #9-0
— Murali Vijay (@mvj888)
Kohli's hunger & consistency is just astonishing.Even against a weak SL side,this has been one of d most dominating away series ever
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif)
Congratulations boy's well done good job ✌✌
— 𝕸𝖔𝖍𝖆𝖒𝖒𝖆𝖉 𝖘𝖍𝖆𝖒𝖎 (@MdShami11)
Hand🦂shakes all around as beat Sri 🌳Lanka by 7 wickets in the one-off T20I
— BCCI (@BCCI)