India makes it eight, in the Siraj-esque way
Updated On: 18 September, 2023 08:11 AM IST | Colombo | R Kaushik
Right-arm pacer Siraj’s career-best 6-21 helps India bundle out Sri Lanka for merely 50 and register splendid 10-wicket win to clinch eighth Asia Cup title
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India players celebrate after winning the Asia Cup final in Colombo yesterday. Pic/AP, PTI
If he had that option, Mohammed Siraj would wrap September 17, 2023, in cotton wool and carry it with him for the rest of his life. The 29-year-old, who had had a quiet Asia Cup, burst into life when it mattered the most, annihilating Sri Lanka in the final at the R Premadasa Stadium on Sunday.
Second-lowest total for SL
This was supposed to be a 50-overs-a-side contest, but it devolved into a 50-run encounter for that was the anaemic total the hosts managed after Dasun Shanaka chose to bat. Siraj was primarily responsible for Sri Lanka capitulating to their second-lowest ODI total with a magical burst of six for 21, the figures doing complete justice to the fury with which the ball left his right hand.
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