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On Thursday (January 12), India faced Sri Lanka in the second encounter of the three-match ODI series and defeated the Islanders by four wickets. Kuldeep Yadav shined for the Men in Blues in their series-clinching victory a💛s he picked three crucial wickets in his quota of 10 💮overs.
Batting first, Sri Lanka struggled against Indian bowlers and were bowled out for 215 in 39.4 overs. The only batsman to have scored a fifty for the visitors was opener Nuwanidu Fernando.
Kuldeep played a defining role for the Indian side in restricting Sri Lanka to a below-par total. The 28-year-old dismissed the inform skipper Dasun Shanaka for 𓂃mere 2 runs with an ab🃏solute ripper of a delivery.
In the 23rd over, Kuldeep bowled a straighter deli🌟very towards Shanaka, which he attemꦇpted to sweep. The Sri Lankan skipper missed the line of the ball and it went on to hit the leg stump.
Here’s the video:
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Following his exceptional bowling performance, Kuldeep was adjudged ‘Man of the Match’.
Man of the Match: Kuldeep Yadav
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Notably, Shanaka had scored a century in the first ODI in Guwahati and was also the second-highest run-scorer in the T2꧋0I series.
Apart from Kuldeep, pacer Mohammed Siraj also took three wickets, while Umran Malik scalped 2 wickets.
Talking about India’s batting performance, the hosts failed to start the chase well and lost their top 4 batters with just 86 runs on the scoreboard. However, KL Rahul’s 64* (103) and Hardik Pandya’s 36 (53) helped India win the game by four wickets in 43.2 o♚vers.
The third and last ODI in Thiruvananthapuram will be a dead rubber as India have already sealed the series with em꧑phatic wins in the first two games.
