IND vs SL 1st T20I Highlights: Ishan shines with 89 as India earn huge win

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Ishan Kishan shine with 89 as India win the match by 62 runs and continue its winning run. The team has now 10 consecutive wins in T20Is

10:45 PM

IND vs SL | 1st T20I | SL 131-6 | Overs 20 | Target 200 | Rohit Sharma pleased with Kishan and Jadeja

 

Rohit Sharma on Ishan Kishan- I know the ability he has and it was just a matter of one good knock that came today and he more importantly constructed the innings after the first six overs that pleased me more 

 

Rohit Sharma on Ravindra Jadeja- We want more from him and I want him to bat up the order as much as possible. He has been an improved player over the years and that's why we want to utilise his abilities 

 

Rohit Sharma- We can't afford to make the finding mistakes that we made in this game 

10:41 PM

IND vs SL | 1st T20I | SL 131-6 | Overs 20 | Target 200 | Ishan Kishan Player of the Match

 

Ishan Kishan is the Player of the Match for his brilliant 89 off just 56 balls which helped India post a huge total of 199 runs. This match has also saved Kishan from a lot of criticism that came from all corners during the West Indies series recently. In his knock, Ishan hit three sixes as well

Ishan says, "I got to learn a lot from the West Indies series and I have changed my intent now I am working more on seeing the ball and hitting the ball and would want to play like that going forward."

10:37 PM

IND vs SL | 1st T20I | SL 131-6 | Overs 20 | Target 200 | 10th win in a row for India

10:35 PM

IND vs SL | 1st T20I | SL 131-6 | Overs 20 | Target 200 | India win- Match Summary

 

Ishan Kishan's dynamic knock of 89 helped India beat Sri Lanka by a handsome margin of 62 runs to lead the three-match T20I series by 1-0. With this win, India now also have stretched their consecutive wins run to 10 matches and are only two wins away from joining Afghanistan as the team with the most consecutive wins in T20Is amongst Test Playing nations. 

 

Along with Iyer, Shreyas Iyer and skipper Rohit Sharma did well too as they scored 44 and 57* each to get India to a very competitive score of 199 in the 20 overs. 

 

Sri Lanka on the other end never looked in the game after winning the toss and deciding to bowl first. Even in the chase, they lost a wicket in the very first ball and apart from Charith Asankala no other Lankan batter was able to get going. Asalnaka top-scored with 53*

 

The two teams will now face each other in the second T20I on February 26 at Dharamshala

10:20 PM

IND vs SL | 1st T20I | SL 131-6 | Overs 20 | Target 200- India win by 67 runs

 

And we are into the last over and Harshal Patel is here to bowl that

 

India, as they win this game, will achieve their best run of wins as they will complete their 10th consecutive win after losing two on a trot against Pakistan and New Zealand in the T20 World Cup 2021

 

And that's it, that's the victory for India as Sri Lanka got two runs off the last ball and India won by a huge margin of 62 runs. Sri Lanka could only manage to get 137-6

10:15 PM

IND vs SL | 1st T20I | SL 131-6 | Overs 19 | Target 200- Fifty for Asalanka

 

Jasprit Bumarah comes into the attack for the 19th over as Charith Asalanka aims for a fifty here 

 

And that's the fifty for Charith Asalanka. It is a very patient knock from the left-handed batter who played while the rest of the batters kept getting out. That's the third fifty in T20Is 

 

10:11 PM

IND vs SL | 1st T20I | SL 125-6 | Overs 18 | Target 200- 21 runs from the over

 

Four!! That's a brilliant shot from Charuith Asalnka as the ball goes for four 

 

Six!! That was smooth from Chameera as it was in his arc and pitched on the half-pitch and at Venky's peace it was going to go for a six without any doubt 

 

Four again!! Venkatesh Iyer's figures are getting a hammering here

 

Four once again, That was smart batting from Dushamnatha Chameera as he guides the ball past short third man for four runs 

10:05 PM

IND vs SL | 1st T20I | SL 104-6 | Overs 17 | Target 200- 100 comes up for Sri Lanka

 

100 comes up for Sri Lanka as the pair of Asalankaand Chameera are now planning to playout the overs 

 

Six runs come from the over 

10:02 PM

IND vs SL | 1st T20I | SL 98-6 | Overs 16 | Target 200

 

And a dot to finish the over and with that, Venkatesh Iyer gets one more wicket in one more over

 

Will Venky get a third over? Probably not 

10:00 PM

IND vs SL | 1st T20I | SL 97-6 | Overs 15.4 | Target 200- Venky strikes again

 

Venkatesh Iyer comes into the attack once again 

 

In the air and it falls shorty of Jaspirt Bumrah at short fine leg 

 

Six!! This man can hit the long ball no doubt and KKR seems to have picked the right man in the Auction as he hits his fellow KKR member for a huge sis to mid-wicket 

 

Wicket !! And Venkatesh Iyer's wicket-taking run continues as Chamika Karunaratne chased a very wide ball and managed to get just an edge  to Ishan Kishan