India vs Sri Lanka Rajkot: With India’s resounding victory in Rajkot, Sri Lanka’s dream of series victory was shattered. Team India defeated him 2–1 in the three-match T20 series. Sri Lankan team has not been able to win a single series in India even after years. His record in India in T20 format has not been very good. But this time it was expected that the Sri Lankan team would win. But this could not happen.
Sri Lanka has played a total of 25 series against Team India at its home ground so far. During this, India defeated him in the series 21 times on his own land. While the Sri Lankan team could not win a single series. During this, the series was drawn 4 times. If you look at the records, Sri Lanka played the biggest 7-match series in India so far. In this ODI series played in 2005, he had to face defeat by 6-1.
If we look at the three-match T20 series played this year, India won the match played in Mumbai by 2 runs. After this, Sri Lanka returned to the series and won the second T20 match by 16 runs. It was a high scoring match. Sri Lankan players performed well in this. But in Rajkot the team proved to be a failure. The Sri Lankan team was all out on a score of 137 runs in the third T20. Had to face defeat in this match by 91 runs.
Significantly, after the series victory of Team India, Suryakumar Yadav became dominant. He scored a century in a stormy performance in the match played in Rajkot. Surya faced 51 balls and scored an unbeaten 112 runs. His innings included 9 sixes and 7 fours.
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