Unwanted Record Captain Rohit Sharma: Captain Rohit Sharma Unwanted Record: Under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, Team India has faced defeat in the three-match ODI series against Sri Lanka. This has happened after 27 years when India had to lose the ODI series to Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka won the last match played at R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Wednesday by 110 runs. Host Sri Lanka defeated India by 32 runs in the second ODI. At the same time, the first match was tied.
After Sri Lanka won the series 2-0, Rohit has entered an unwanted club as a captain. Before Rohit in this club, there are great batsman Sachin Tendulkar and former Indian captain Mohammad Azharuddin. In fact, Rohit has become the third Indian captain to lose the ODI series against Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has won only three ODI series from India in the last 31 years.
India lost the first series against Sri Lanka in 1993. Mohammad Azharuddin was the captain of India then. Sri Lanka won this three-match series 2-1 at home. Then India won only the first ODI. After that Sri Lanka defeated India in the ODI series in 1997. Sachin Tendulkar was the captain of Team India at that time. At that time India lost all three ODI matches. The interesting thing is that Sri Lanka won all three series at home.
IND vs SL: Talking about the third ODI match, Sri Lanka won the toss and scored 248/7. Avishka Fernando scored the highest 96 runs in 102 balls for Sri Lanka. Apart from him, Pathum Nissanka contributed 45 and Kusal Mendis contributed 59 runs. In reply, Team India was all out for 138 runs in just 26.1 overs.
Rohit scored the highest 35 runs for India. Washington Sundar got out after scoring 30 and Virat Kohli scored 20 runs. India lost five wickets at a score of 73 runs. Dunith Welalage bowled the best of his career for Sri Lanka. He took 5 wickets for 27 runs in 5.1 overs.
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