🏏India vs Sri Lanka – 1st T20I in Lucknow🏏 - Page 17

India won by 62 runs.....

India won by 62 runs. All thanks to superb batting👏 n early wickets by Bhuvi

Congratulations to Team India for their excellent performance with bat and ball. ⭐️

India vs Sri Lanka, 2nd T20I, Feb 26: Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala.

10th consecuitve win for India in T20Is

This is India's tenth successive T20I win. Afghanistan and Romania hold the record with 12 successive wins.

"Shreyas Iyer: My start was slow but it wasn't easy. But once my eye got in, and once I got a boundary, I thought I would keep going. Ishan too was losing patience, so I told him to take his time and then he again started timing well. It's a huge ground, especially after playing at Eden Gardens. We had planned to run a lot of twos and eventually our every plan came off. I was trying to stay in present. I thought 180 would be a good total. I just focused on watching the ball closely and tried to time it well. I tried to bribe Bumrah [who was leading the side when Rohit was off for a bit] to give me an over but it didn't work (laughs)."

Time for the presentation ceremony.

"Dasun Shanaka: We were really poor in all three departments. They batted beautifully and read the conditions really well. We are without our main spinners, Wanindu Hasaranga and Maheesh Theekshana and the new guys are not very experienced. Hopefully, Asalanka carries his form throughout the series."

"Rohit Sharma: When you play a kind of support that we play, these things [dips in form] are bound to happen. I know the ability Ishan has and it was very very pleasing to watch him bat today. He constructed the innings after six overs, that was more pleasing. It was not about coming and hitting the ball, it was also about finding the gaps. [On Jadeja] Very happy with him. We want more from him, that's why we sent him up the order and you would see more of that in the upcoming games. He is in good form, especially Test cricket, and we want to use that in limited overs. We will see if we can promote him up the order going forward. I love playing in big grounds because that's where you are tested as a batter. In Kolkata you can just time the ball for a six. We are dropping a few catches, which is not expected at this level. I guess our fielding coach has some work to do. We want to be the best fielding side in Australia"

Ishan Kishan, the Player of the Match