India’s Sri Lanka target of 376, due to Virat and Rohit’s century
The fourth match of the five-match ODI series between Team India and Sri Lanka is being played in the RPS Stadium Colombo. Batting first, winning the toss, India lost 37/5 in 50 overs and set targets for Sri Lanka. For Team India, captain Virat Kohli scored a magnificent 131 runs. It was his 29th century of ODI career. Apart from this, Rohit Sharma also scored 104 runs. Manish Pandey’s 50 and MS Dhoni scored 49 runs. Angelo Mathews took 2 wickets for Sri Lanka.
Kohli’s 29th century
In the match, Indian captain Virat Kohli made his 29th century of ODI career. Indian captain Virat Kohli completed his 100 runs at 76 balls. During the finishing of the Century, he also imposed 14 fours and a six. Earlier, he had completed his 50 runs on 38 balls.
Dhoni made world records of notout
In this match Dhoni scored not out with 49 *. This is the 73rd ODI in ODIs when he is not out. Now, one-day cricket has become the most notout cricketer in the history of cricket.
Dhoni left behind Shaun Pollock of South Africa and Chaminda Vaas of Sri Lanka in this case. Who was not out 72-72 times. This is the third match in the series when Dhoni is not out. Earlier, he was not out in the second and third ODIs too.
Wickets of india
India felt the first blow as Shikhar Dhawan, who got caught by Malinda Pushpakumar on the ball of Vishva Fernando in 1.3 overs. Dhawan scored four runs. Virat Kohli (131) was caught by Munaweera at the bowling of Malinga at 29.3 overs. Team India’s score was 225 at that time. Rohit and Virat got 219 runs partnership for the second wicket.
India got a third blow in 34.3 overs, when Hardy Pandya (19) was caught by Angelo Mathews on the ball of Angelo Mathews. On the next ball, Mathews also took the wicket of Rohit Sharma (104). His catch was taken by Dickwella. The fifth wicket was Lokesh Rahul, who was caught out of Dhananjay in the 37.4 overs caught by Harsanga. Manish Pandey and Dhoni made 101 runs partnership for the sixth wicket.
Earlier, Team India captain Virat Kohli decided to bat first before winning the toss. In the five-match one-day series, India have taken an unbeatable 3-0 lead. Winning the fourth one-day, India’s eyes will continue to move further towards Clean Sweep. Given the current form of the Sri Lanka team, it does not seem that it will be able to give a strong team like India a chance in the fourth one-dayer. Not only bad form, Sri Lanka’s team is also battling injuries this time, due to which the five players have already been out of the series.
Team India
India has bowlers like Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma and Mahendra Singh Dhoni, along with Jasprit Bumrah and Bhuvaneshwar. So far everything has been good for India. Captain Virat Kohli’s leadership team has already got possession In such a situation, coach Ravi Shastri and Kohli can experiment in this match and the players sitting on the bench can get a chance.
So far Ajinkya Rahane, Manish Pandey, Kuldeep Yadav and Shardul Thakur have not got the chance to play a single match. Some of them can give Kohli a chance on Thursday. Rahane or Pande can get an opportunity to sit Kedar Jadhav and Lokesh Rahul. Talking about bowling, Jaspreet Bumrah is a threat to the entire Sri Lankan team. In the last three ODIs he has taken 11 wickets. In spin, Akshar Patel and Yuviwendra Chahal have performed average yet. Kohli can take Chinnaman Kuldeep out of any of these.
