Asia Cup | Nissanka’s blazing century in vain; IND edge SL in Super Over

TimesofIndia.com successful Dubai: It took a Super Over to nutrient the effect of the astir inconsequential lucifer of the Asia Cup.Pathum Nissanka’s (107 disconnected 58 balls; 7x4, 6x6) maiden T20I ton went successful vain arsenic India held their nervus to support their winning streak live successful the tournament.

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Even successful the Super Over, determination was drama.On the 4th shot of the Super Over, Dasun Shanaka missed a chaotic hoick and an alert Sanju Samson deed the stumps with a nonstop deed from an under-arm flick. It was a yorker-length ball, Shanaka moved away, tried to excavation it out, but missed. The shot went past the borderline with nary bat involved. For immoderate reason, Shanaka was disconnected for a run, but Samson deed the bullseye. Since it had already been fixed retired caught down and reviewed, the shot was declared dead, and umpire Gazi Sohel made his constituent wide to India that the archetypal determination would stand.

Because the bowler’s-end umpire had signaled out, the shot was dead—allowing Shanaka to flight the run-out.However, it outgo India little, arsenic Arshdeep Singh dismissed Shanaka with the precise adjacent shot and India sealed the match.Chasing 203, Nissanka came down connected the Indian bowlers similar a ton of bricks and smashed the archetypal period of the Asia Cup disconnected conscionable 52 balls. The Sri Lankan opener attacked from shot 1 and spared none.

He teed disconnected with a bound disconnected the archetypal delivery, but mislaid opening spouse Kusal Mendis successful the precise archetypal over.Hardik Pandya struck early, removing Mendis for a duck, but Nissanka and Kusal Perera counterattacked brilliantly. The brace tore into some seamers and spinners, adding 127 runs for the 2nd wicket.Nissanka was the star, blasting 7 fours and 6 sixes en way to his maiden T20I century. Perera excessively looked fluent, scoring 58 disconnected 32 balls, earlier Varun Chakravarthy broke the basal by dismissing the left-hander successful the 13th over.Charith Asalanka (5) and Kamindu Mendis (3) failed to capitalise connected the platform, portion skipper Shanaka chipped successful with a brisk 22 not retired disconnected 11 balls. Nissanka’s good sound ended connected 107 successful the last over, courtesy of Harshit Rana.The lucifer went down to the wire. With Sri Lanka needing 3 runs disconnected the past delivery, Shanaka heaved it to the limb side. A misfield successful the deep, followed by a fumble from Rana portion collecting, near the doorway unfastened for a 3rd run.

But Shanaka and Janith Liyanage chose to settee for two, dragging the contention into a Super Over.Earlier, Abhishek Sharma’s 31-ball 61 and Sanju Samson’s fluent 39 helped India station an imposing 202 for 5 against Sri Lanka successful their last Super 4s clash astatine the Dubai International Stadium connected Friday.It was the highest full of the tourney truthful far, eclipsing India’s 188 against Oman and Afghanistan’s identical tally versus Hong Kong.Abhishek acceptable the code with a 31-ball 61, his 3rd consecutive half-century, portion Samson yet recovered his bushed astatine No. 5, smashing 3 sixes successful a 22-ball cameo. Tilak Varma anchored the innings superbly, finishing unbeaten connected 49 disconnected 34 balls—a sound that volition springiness him plentifulness of confidence.Abhishek’s dominance successful the powerplay has go a hallmark of this tournament. His innings, peppered with 8 fours and 2 sixes, erstwhile again threatened to crook into a period earlier helium was caught astatine heavy mid-wicket disconnected a Charith Asalanka half-tracker.Earlier, Shubman Gill (4) perished erstwhile a Maheesh Theekshana transportation stopped connected him, the starring borderline comfortably pouched by the bowler. Skipper Suryakumar Yadav’s (12) thin spot continued, trapped leg-before by Wanindu Hasaranga portion attempting a sweep.Samson’s accomplishment changed the tempo. Batting with intent, helium looked successful ominous interaction for the archetypal clip successful the tournament. His standout onslaught was a towering deed consecutive down the crushed disconnected Hasaranga, muscled into the sight-screen aft helium shuffled crossed to make room. Soon after, helium dispatched Shanaka implicit cattle country for different maximum.

Samson and Tilak added 66 runs successful conscionable 6.5 overs to acceptable the signifier for a precocious flourish, which Axar Patel capped with a last-over six to propulsion India beyond 200.India volition instrumentality connected Pakistan successful the acme clash connected Sunday.