Player of the Match
Player of the Match

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Best performances - Batsmen

S Dhawan
S Dhawan
125(128) 15x4 - 1x6
Control %72%
  • Productive Shot
  • cover drive
  • 32 runs
  • 5x4 - 0x6
17 2 20 13 19 6 8 40
BKG Mendis
BKG Mendis
89(93) 11x4 - 1x6
Control %75%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 27 runs
  • 5x4 - 0x6
8 10 17 0 13 7 10 24

Best performances - Bowlers

SL Malinga
SL Malinga
O10
M0
R70
W2
Eco7.00
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
DAS Gunaratne
DAS Gunaratne
O3
M0
R7
W1
Eco2.33
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W

Scorer: Thilak Gowda | Commentator: Alagappan Muthu

6.30 pm So, it was about time the Champions Trophy bucked up. Hopefully New Zealand and Bangladesh can keep your appetites whetted and there's tons of fun to be had. It was lovely bringing the coverage to you, lovely to read your comments as well, please keep sending them. But for now, lets all get outta here.

"It's one of the top wins, to beat India. It was a fantastic wicket. The bowlers did brilliantly to restrict India to 321. it's a very chaseable target," Mathews says, "I tried to hit as many balls in the nets as possible, it makes you feel good and that helped me come back from injury. Wasn't easy for Gunathilaka to walk into the side and bat like how he did. Kusal is a great player, and Kusal Perera also batted really well. Those partnerships were crucial. It's a must-win game for all of us in the group. Not many people expected us to win and that took a lot of pressure off us. [Turning point?] I thought the second-wicket partnership. They set us the platform"

"We felt we had enough on the board, we trusted out bowlers, but Sri Lanka were pretty good. They kept the momentum through the innings, they picked their areas to hit and executed really well," Kohli says, "There's always hindsight. I thought we bowled decently. But when you don't execute properly, there is always food for thought. Here you have to give credit to the other team. In a tournament like this especially."

Kusal Mendis is the Man of the Match for his 89 off 93. "Very good wicket. India had a good start, with Dhawan making a hundred. But for us, Danushka supported me very well. It was my first game against India and I'm happy to have contributed. Very bad [about causing Danushka's run out] but after Angelo and Kusal batted, I was very happy"

6.20 pm More good news for Sri Lanka - Kusal Perera having retired hurt with a troubled hamstring is feeling good enough to walk down the stairs himself. He played an important hand through the middle of the innings, ensuring the platform set by top order didn't go to waste. And who put on that stand? A batsman all the rage back home, Kusal Mendis, and a man who was on the standby list until a few days ago, Danushka Gunathilaka. 322 is the largest target Sri Lanka have chased in ODI cricket It is also the ninth time that Sri Lanka have chased 300 - all of which have happened away from home. But this one will be special - it came in an ICC tournament and it was set up by players they will look to moving into the future. And so the remaining games in this group become quarter-finals - India v SA and Pakistan v SL

Saain: "A clinical performance with the bat, youngsters came to the party and guided to the victory by the Man himself, Angelo Mathews. Siri Lankan's will cherish this for long long time"

Prasanna S: "India lose their first CT game after a sequence of 7 wins starting from their last game in 2009 against WI. Someday this sequence should end and SL completely deserved this win."

Uday: "Srilanka chased 324 in 2006. 322 is not their highest chase, I believe." They got to 324, but the target was 322.

48.4
1
Yadav to Mathews, 1 run, short ball, helps it away to long leg and Sri Lanka have thumped India. Mathews makes a gesture that I will find hard to describe but I'll do so anyway. He puts his bat over his head, handle pointing at his name perhaps on his jersey
48.3
4
Yadav to Mathews, FOUR, races down the pitch and thumps a length ball down the ground to bring up his fifty. Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews, ladies and gentlemen. His team is in splits in the dressing room and the flags are high and proud
48.2
1
Yadav to Gunaratne, 1 run, this is a slower short ball, Gunaratne backs away and slices it to deep third man
48.1
2
Yadav to Gunaratne, 2 runs, shortish delivery, pulls it to deep square leg for a couple

Here's Umesh

END OF OVER:
48 | 5 Runs | SL: 314/3 (8 runs required from 12 balls, RR: 6.54, RRR: 4.00)

  • Asela Gunaratne31 (19b)
  • Angelo Mathews47 (43b)
  • Jasprit Bumrah10-0-52-0
  • Bhuvneshwar Kumar10-0-54-1

Faisal suleman: "Yesterday world no 1 team stunned by world no 8 team and today world no 2 team stunned by world number 7 team." Only nine runs away...

47.6
1
Bumrah to Gunaratne, 1 run, full on off stump, drives to mid-off
47.5
1
Bumrah to Mathews, 1 run, shortish and outside off, Mathews drags it to long leg with half a hack and half a pull

SL's biggest

322

Target chased by Sri Lanka in this game, is their joint-biggest in ODIs. They had chased down the same target against England at Headingley in 2006.

Run-out trouble

4

No. of run-outs for SL batsmen in 2 games of this Champions Trophy. All other teams combined have had only five run-outs.

Magnificent Mendis

11

No. of 50+ scores for Mendis in ODI career of 27 ODIs. Since his debut, in Jun 2016, only Joe Root (12) has made more 50+ scores.

Effective 2nd-wicket

8

No. of century partnerships for 2nd wicket for SL since WC 2015, including today. For all other wickets they have had only 7 such stands.

Need a record chase

317

Highest target successfully chased at The Oval in ODIs, by India against the home team in 2007. SL are set 322 to win in this game.

Quick ten

77

No. of inns taken by Dhawan to score 10 ODI centuries, which makes him the third quickest to the feat after de Kock (55 inns) and Amla (57).

Dhawan's favourites

62.50

Dhawan's average v SL in ODIs, his highest against any team (2+ inns). His scores in the last 4 ODIs against them: 94, 113, 79, 91.

Hat-trick

3

No. of consecutive century partnerships for Rohit and Dhawan - 123 v Aus, 136 v Pak and this game. They are the first pair to do so for India in ODIs.

ODI rivals

150

No. of ODIs between India and Sri Lanka, the most between any two sides. Pak and SL come next with 147 games against each other.

India's dominance

14-3

Win-loss record of India over Sri Lanka in the last 17 ODIs since 2012. The last they faced in this format was in 2014 and India had won that home series 5-0.

ICC Champions Trophy (ICC KnockOut)

Group A
TeamMWLPTNRR
ENG33061.045
BAN31130
AUS3012-0.992
NZ3021-1.058
Group B
TeamMWLPTNRR
IND32141.37
PAK3214-0.68
SA31220.167
SL3122-0.798