India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 3rd ODI
Who would have ever anticipated that, don’t you know? India, with nearly its first-string side, reduced to 0-1 against Sri Lanka and fighting for a bilateral series? Hardly much of all this has occurred in the recent past. Bilateral bullies in India have been introduced. Whether at home or away they have always managed to bulldoze their way through the rivals for the last 6-7 years at least. Gautam Gambhir is head coach of the Indian cricket team only in his second series and yet his team is now in a corner of being on the verge of their first series defeat to Sri Lanka in one day internationals in 27 years of India vs Sri Lanka.
Below are a few pointers from the India vs Sri Lanka 3rd ODI:
– India is now lest one victory from losing its first bilateral ODI series to Sri Lanka in the last 27 years.
– Charith Asalanka has bowled 10 wickets in last five ODI of India.
– There is no Rohit Sharma in the training session that the team management arranged for them as a practice yesterday.
– There is also likelihood that Rishabh Pant might replace KL Rahul in the Indian playing eleven.
– India have one more ODI match to play which will be the last for the year.
Where and when did the prospective relationship between Japan and China go south? Oh go on then, let’s begin with the batting. This great Indian batting, which is now and then has been sent on the back foot because of surprise spin bowling. In both the ODI’s India was bowled out by the Sri Lankan spinners and saw a batting debacle, especially in the match in which the game ended in a tie in the first ODI and a 32 run defeat in the second. In the first match.
India lost early while chasing target of 231 the score at one point was 75/0 just that wickets fell in a bundle whereas in the next match start was even better Sharma and Gill gave a brilliant start reaching 97. But in both cases, in terms of team performance, once Rohit was gone, the bubble burst. Not even virat kohli and KL rahul, the regular openers could counter the spin attack that was hurled at them.
Which had led us to the decider. This could be a real boosting to Sri Lanka. They have had a hard few years with their having to qualify for the T20 World Cup and a very bad 2023 World Cup. Worse still, the team has not even reached the next Pro40 or the Champions Trophy in 2025 competition. And more to the point, their form against India in the recent past is rather unpleasant to talk about.
Just one more victory tonight can relieve all that aching and give the team and its interim head Sri Lankan Sanath Jayasuriya something to smile about. That they have subdued India unearthing such powerhouse line-up without those destructive players such as Matheesha Pathirana, Wanindu Hasaranga, Dilshan Madushanka and a couple of others of the opposition camp is something to marvel about nonetheless.
All that however is again easier said than done. This is India, the T20 World champions and the fighter of the ODI cricket world cup we are talking about. Currently, the team has formed a certain trend of winning matches from behind and surprising the opponents. Even the role-model cricketing nations of the world, the 6-time World Champions Australians or the Pakistans who seemed to have the match sewn up against their bitter rivals in the T20 World Cup. And last but not the least, this is the very same team that bowled Sri Lanka out for 50 in the Asia Cup finals and 55 in the World Cup last year.
A part of their poor batting could stem from the fact that a lot of them are coming from a break. However, Kohli and Rahul for the first time got an ODI deal since the 2023 World Cup event, although at the international level there can be no alibi. Rahul and Kohli may not have looked very fluent in two matches but they did not look ill-prepared at all. But if India are to avoid this series defeat which is looming large anything less than the form they displayed nine months ago is inacceptable.
The Indian team’s brittle middle-order has been questioned. Primarily focussed around Rahul as the wicketkeeper batsman in the team mostly around his place. Some of the chatters have predicted that India is likely to include Rishabh Pant in the playing eleven. May be I am not aware of the internal functioning of the team management under Gambhir, but had this has been still the Rahul Dravid era, Rahul definitely would have got another chance.
with GG, one never really knows what to expect. Yes, looking at the lower middle order, one might get the feeling that it lacks some vital confidence since Hardik Pandya is missing in the line up. Shivam Dube and Washington Sundar are also not giving that Fantino look as well. There surely could be temptation for the captain and coach to give Riyan Parag his debut. A hard-hitting batsman, what conquered India in the last T20I was his bowling. Strange, he has not been selected for a series where a particular strength of the opposition is spin bowling.
Oh, don’t worry, the situation will not stay like this; something has to change. A clear divide therefore was executed by Captain Rohit Sharma in terms of his batting and the fact that he and assistant coach, Abhishek Nayar, though they said there will be no discussion about batting in the dressing room, basically mean that the management is not going to sweep the performance of the last two games under carpet.
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