crushed<\/a> Pakistan by 228 runs on Monday in a match that was played across two days due to rain.<\/p>\nThe 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":"
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