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India Vs Sri Lanka, 1st ODI: Batting First India Witnesses Virat Ton with 374 for Sri Lanka To Win

India Vs Sri Lanka, 1st ODI: Team India accumulated a challenging 348 for 4 with a century by Virat Kohli. Now the Sri Lanka has to cruise towards a huge 349 target in three hundred balls.

India Vs Sri Lanka, 1st ODI: The Indian scorecard with a total of 348 for 4 is a mammoth target for the visitors to chase.  Thus Team India under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma looks to continue its winning run in Guwahati today.

This appears to be a good beginning of the year for Indian cricket keeping an eye on the upcoming 2023 ICC men’s 50-over World Cup. Team India is commencing its excellent journey today on the 10th of January with a fantastic beginning in the first ODI against Sri Lanka in Guwahati.

In the first ODI out of the three-match series against SL, batting first Team India India looks to post its 10th win in 13 ODIs at home since the start of 2020. The game today saw the return of Indian stalwarts Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma who skipped the T20I series against Sri Lanka, which Sri Lanka lost with a 1-2 result against India.

In the match today after a long time the top batting order witnessed its excellence in form. Rohit Sharma with 83 runs and Shubhman Gil with 79 started off on a winning note. Virat Kohli coming to his King Kohli form scored another century with 113 runs and supported by KL Rahul’s 39 and Shreyas Aiyar’s 28 saw the scoreboard reach 373 runs.

T20 Skipper Hardik Pandya could only add 14 runs whereas Axar Patel with only 9 runs did not impress much and the last pair of Muhammad Siraj and Muhammad Shami made 4 and 7 run only.

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Significantly, it was only Muhammad Siraj who had a scoring rate of 87, otherwise, all the eight Team India batsmen crossed a scoring rate of 100 where KL Rahul with 134 and Virat Kohli with 129 looked excellent performing on the ground.

Parijat Tripathi

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