{"id":3433,"date":"2023-09-12T19:54:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T19:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/india-reach-asia-cup-2023-final-with-win-over-sri-lanka\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T19:54:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T19:54:04","slug":"india-reach-asia-cup-2023-final-with-win-over-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/india-reach-asia-cup-2023-final-with-win-over-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"India reach Asia Cup 2023 final with win over Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kuldeep Yadav starred as India overcame a brilliant all-round effort from Sri Lanka\u2019s Dunith Wellalage to win a tense Asia Cup clash by 41 runs on Tuesday and book a place in the final.<\/p>\n

Kuldeep took four wickets, including the final two, as India defended 213, bowling out Sri Lanka for 172 to silence a large home crowd at Colombo\u2019s R
\nPremadasa Stadium.<\/p>\n

India recorded their second straight Super Four win in the 50-over tournament, a prelude to the upcoming one-day international (ODI) World Cup, and ended Sri Lanka\u2019s 13-match winning streak in ODIs.<\/p>\n

Wellalage, who claimed his maiden ODI five-wicket haul, remained unbeaten on 42 when he ran out of partners as left-arm wrist spinner Kuldeep wrapped up the opposition tail in 41.3 overs.<\/p>\n

It was India\u2019s third straight day on the field after they crushed<\/a> Pakistan by 228 runs on Monday in a match that was played across two days due to rain.<\/p>\n

The next Super Four match between Sri Lanka and Pakistan on Thursday will decide the second finalists between the two teams.<\/p>\n

India skipper Rohit Sharma scored 53 to hand his team a brisk start but Wellalage hit back.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old returned figures of 5-40, including the key wickets of Sharma and Virat Kohli, with strong support from part-time spinner Charith Asalanka, who claimed four victims for 18 runs.<\/p>\n

Rohit entered an elite list of players with over 10,000 ODI runs and hit his second successive fifty.<\/p>\n

Wellalage struck with his first ball of the match when he bowled Shubman Gill for 19 and there was no looking back for the young spinner.<\/p>\n

He made the home fans erupt with the wicket of Kohli who fell for three a day after an unbeaten 122 against Pakistan at the same venue.<\/p>\n

Rohit was also bowled by Wellalage who snared his third scalp in three overs.
\nIshan Kishan, who made 33, and previous-match centurion KL Rahul attempted to rebuild the innings with a stand of 63.<\/p>\n

Wellalage ended that partnership when he got Rahul caught and bowled for 39 and then took his fifth.<\/p>\n

Asalanka kept chipping away from the other end and was on a hat-trick with India on 186-9, but Axar Patel took the total past 200 after a nearly 45-minute rain break and hit 26.<\/p>\n

India hit back with regular wickets and Jasprit Bumrah struck twice.
\nAsalanka attempted to increase the run-rate but became Kuldeep\u2019s second wicket.<\/p>\n

Dhananjaya de Silva fought back along with Wellalage in a threatening seventh-wicket stand of 63 but Ravindra Jadeja broke the partnership with the wicket of De Silva for 41.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kuldeep Yadav starred as India overcame a brilliant all-round effort from Sri Lanka\u2019s Dunith Wellalage to win a tense Asia Cup clash by 41 runs on Tuesday and book a place in the final. Kuldeep took four wickets, including the final two, as India defended 213, bowling out Sri Lanka for 172 to silence a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/09\/122316289094bf7.jpg?r=231714","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t