India vs Sri Lanka, Match 3 Super 4 Asia Cup 2022, Stats Review: Rohit Sharma’s feat, chasing team's incredible record in Dubai and other stats

Dilshan Madushanka’s spell of 3/24 and half-centuries from openers Pathum Nissanka and Kusal Mendis helped Sri Lanka in handing a shocking defeat to tournament favorites India in Match 3 of the Super 4 round in Asia Cup 2022. Chasing 174 to win, skipper Dasun Shanaka and Bhanuka Rajapaksa also played their part by remaining unbeaten on 33 and 25 respectively to seal the third successive victory for their side in this campaign. With this loss, seven times champions India are almost knocked out of the tournament.

Speaking about how the match unfolded, Shanaka won the toss and elected to field first. KL Rahul got dismissed to spinner Maheesh Theekshana for just six while Virat Kohli bagged a four-ball duck. Captain Rohit Sharma looked in great touch today as he smashed 72 off 41, which included five fours and four maximums. Suryakumar Yadav made 34 of 29 while both Rishabh Pant and Hardik Pandya registered identical scores of 17 off 13 as India reached 173/8 in 20 overs with Shanaka and Chamika Karunaratne picking up two wickets each.

Sri Lanka’s opening pair of Nissanka and Mendis gave their team a solid start with a 97-run partnership with the former amassing 52 off just 37 and Mendis 57 off 37. Both the right-handed batters laid the foundation for the middle order in pursuit of their run chase. The Lankan Lions did stumble in the middle with Yuzvendra Chahal picking up 3/34 in his spell, but Shanaka and Rajapaksa made sure they were there till the end to guide Sri Lanka to a victory. For his all-round performance, skipper Shanaka grabbed the Player of the Match award.

Meanwhile, here are some of the important stats and numbers from Match 3 in Super 4 between India and Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup 2022:

4 - Virat Kohli registered his fourth duck in 95 T20I innings.

32 – Rohit Sharma is now joint-top with Kohli for smashing most 50-plus scores (32) in T20 internationals. Babar Azam is in the second position for hitting 27 such scores.

411 – Rohit has now scored the most T20I runs (411) for India against Sri Lanka. He surpassed Shikhar Dhawan’s tally of 375 runs.

1016 – Rohit reached the milestone of 1000 runs in Asia Cups (ODI & T20). He became the first Indian to achieve the feat as he went past Sachin Tendulkar’s tally of 971 runs and is now in the third spot. Sri Lanka duo of Sanath Jayasuriya and Kumar Sangakkara are in the top two positions for scoring 1220 and 1075 runs respectively.

200 – Yuzvendra Chahal reached the milestone of 200 wickets in international cricket.

3 – For the third time, both Sri Lankan openers scored 50-plus in a T20I innings. Jayasuriya and Tilakaratne Dilshan against West Indies in 2009 and Dinesh Chandimal and Dilshan against Pakistan in 2016 are the other two instances.

18 – In 18 out of the last 20 matches, the teams batting second have won in T20Is in Dubai.

9 – Charith Asalanka has managed to score just nine runs in four innings at an average of 2.25 with all four single-digit scores in this Asia Cup.

154 – Dasun Shanaka has now scored 154 runs at a strike rate of 205.33 in his last three innings, with the highest score of 74* against India, while being unbeaten in all of them.

97 - Pathum Nissanka and Kusal Mendis recorded the highest opening partnership (97) for Sri Lanka against India in T20Is. The previous highest of 67 was between Danushka Gunathilaka and Nissanka, which came in Dharamsala this year.

1 – For the first time, India lost back-to-back T20Is in a series under the leadership of Rohit Sharma.