India win by seven wickets
Leeds: Tons from KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma help India register a seven-wicket victory against Sri Lanka here.
Leeds: At the end of 40 overs, India were on the verge of victory with 234/1 at Headingley Saturday. Rohit Sharma was back in the pavilion after scoring 103 off 94 balls. This was Sharma’s record fifth ton in a single edition of an ICC World Cup. KL Rahul also completed his first century of the World Cup.
Brief scores
India 234/1 (Virat Kohli 24 (32b); KL Rahul 102 (114b); Isuru Udana 8-0-39-0, Lasith Malinga 8-1-62-0)
Leeds: India almost took the match away from Sri Lanka at the end of 30 overs putting up 189 on the board. Both openers are approcahing three-figure marks at Headingley Saturday.
Brief scores
India 189/0 (KL Rahul 81 (87b), Rohit Sharma 103 (93b); Isuru Udana 7-0-35-0, Kasun Rajitha 6-0-35-0)
Leeds: At the end of 20 overs, India reached 109 for no loss with Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul going steady at Headingley Saturday.
Brief scores
India 109/0 (Rohit Sharma 66 (59b), KL Rahul 42 (61b); Thisara Perera 5-0-18-0, Dhananjaya de Silva 2-0-18-0)
Leeds: India started on a promising note racing to 59 without without loss after 10 overs at Headingley Saturday.
Brief scores
India 59/0 in 10 overs (KL Rahul 27 (35b), Rohit Sharma 31 (25b); Kasun Rajitha 5-0-29-0, Lasith Malinga
5-1-29-0
Leeds: Sri Lanka managed to score 264 losing seven wickets at the end of their allotted 50 overs at the Headingly
Brief scores
SL 264/7 in 50 overs (Dhananjaya de Silva 29 (36b), Isuru Udana 1 (1b); Bhuvneshwar Kumar 10-0-73-1, Jasprit Bumrah 10-2-37-3
Leeds: Sri Lanka reached 200 at the loss of five wickets at the the end of 40 overs against India in the 2019 ICC World Cup at Headingly.
Angelo Matthews, spearheading Sri Lanka’s batting is unbeaten at 85 runs off 100 balls.
Brief scores
Sri Lanka 200/5 in 40 overs (Mathews 85r, 100b; Ravindra Jadeja 10-0-40-1)
Leeds: Angelo Matthews and Lahiru Thirimanne have given the islanders some hope after dragging Sri Lanka to 127/4 at the end of 30 overs.
Brief scores
Sri Lanka 127/4 in 30 overs (Thirimanne 31 (46b), Angelo Mathews 41 (69b); Bumrah 6-2-21-2, Hardik Pandya 5-0-17-1)
Leeds: Indian bowlers continued to haunt the Sri Lankan batsmen as the island nation was restricted to a paltry sum of 83 at the loss of four wickets at the end of 20 overs in the 2019 ICC World Cup at Headingly.
All hopes rest with Angelo Mathews (19r, 33b) and Lahiru Thirimanne (10r, 22b) to surmount a decent total for Sri Lanka.
Brief scores
Sri Lanka 83/4 in 20 overs
Leeds: India have restricted Sri Lanka to 52/2 at the end of 10 overs in their final preliminary match of the ongoing 2019 ICC World Cup here at Headingly, Leeds.
Pacer Jasprit Bumrah was superb in his first spell having picked up two wickets including that of Sri Lankan caprain Dimuth Karunaratne.
Brief scores
Sri Lanka 52/2 in 10 overs (Avishka Fernando 19 (18b); Jasprit Bumrah 4-2-14-2)
Leeds: India face the already eliminated Sri Lanka in their final preliminary match before the semi-finals of the ICC Cricket World Cup here at Headingly, Leeds.
Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne won the toss and elected to bat first.
“The team is really striking a good balance, it’s about performing at the big times,” said Indian skipper Virat Kohli.
Squads
India: 1 Rohit Sharma, 2 KL Rahul, 3 Virat Kohli (capt), 4 Rishabh Pant, 5 MS Dhoni (wk), 6 Dinesh Karthik, 7 Hardik Pandya, 8 Ravindra Jadeja, 9 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 10 Kuldeep Yadav, 11 Jasprit Bumrah
Sri Lanka: 1 Dimuth Karunaratne (capt), 2 Kusal Perera (wk), 3 Avishka Fernando, 4 Kusal Mendis, 5 Angelo Mathews, 6 Lahiru Thirimanne, 7 Dhananjaya de Silva, 8 Isuru Udana, 9 Lasith Malinga, 10 Kasun Rajitha, 11 Thisara Perera.
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