By Admin 
India A team adorned with IPL stars started the tri-series with a win. India almost won a lost game against Sri Lanka. While chasing 278 runs, Sri Lanka had scored 256 runs in 46 overs. Now only 22 more runs had to be scored in 24 balls. It seemed that Team India had lost the match, but the bowlers turned the tables, and India snatched the victory from the jaws of Sri Lanka.
While chasing the target, Niroshan Dickwella (47) and Avishka Fernando (45) gave a great start to Sri Lanka by making a partnership of 93 runs for the first wicket. This partnership was broken by Ayush Badoni, he dismissed Fernando in the 17th over and Dickwella in the 19th over. After this, there was an important partnership of 78 runs between Sadira Samarawickrama (46) and captain Sahan Arachchige for the fourth wicket. Sahan Arachige scored 74 runs in 72 balls with the help of 2 sixes and 6 fours. When he was at the crease, no one could say that Sri Lanka could lose the match from here.
22 runs were needed in 24 balls
After 46 overs, Sri Lanka’s score was 256/6, needing only 22 runs to win. Arshad Khan gave only 5 runs in the 17th over. In the 48th over, Anshul Kamboj gave only 7 runs and took an important wicket in the form of Sri Lankan captain Sahan Arachchige. When he was out, Sri Lanka needed 16 runs from 16 balls.
Sri Lanka needed 10 runs from 12 balls and had 3 wickets in hand, here too Sri Lanka was the favorite but Arshad Khan did wonders in this over. He gave out LBW to Viaskant on the second ball. Vanuj Sahan was run out on the next ball, on the fifth ball he took the 10th wicket of Sri Lanka in the form of Mohammad Shiraz and Team India won the match by 8 runs.
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did not work Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s bat
Indian captain Tilak Verma won the toss and decided to bat first. Prabhsimran Singh and Vaibhav Suryavanshi opened, but both were out cheaply. While Prabh could score only 2 runs in 11 balls, Vaibhav was out after scoring 14 runs in 12 balls. Priyansh Arya, who came at number three, was run out due to lack of coordination, he scored 32 runs in 32 balls.
Rituraj Gaikwad played a century innings
After the failure of the top order batsmen, Ruturaj Gaikwad made a partnership of 150 runs with captain Tilak Verma. Gaikwad scored 101 runs in 114 balls with the help of 3 sixes and 6 fours. Tilak scored 60 runs in 97 balls, in this innings he hit 1 six and 2 fours.
In the end, Ayush Badoni played important innings of 24 runs in 18 balls and Suryansh Shedge played important innings of 26 runs in 14 balls, taking India’s score to 277. Mohammad Shiraz took 2 wickets for Sri Lanka, which included the important wicket of Vaibhav Suryavanshi. He was the one who had also dismissed Tilak Verma.
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When is India’s next match?
A tri-series is being played between India A, Sri Lanka A and Afghanistan A, the first match of which has been won by India. The next match is between India A and Afghanistan A on Thursday, June 11. Let us tell you that each team will play 2-2 matches against the other two teams. The final match will be held between the top-2 teams on Sunday, June 21.