ICC World Cup 2023: Shami on you, Sri Lanka!
Updated On: 03 November, 2023 04:46 AM IST | Mumbai | R Kaushik
Veteran pacer takes 5-18 to dismiss Asian neighbours for an embarrassing 55 all out at Wankhede and take hosts into the semi-finals with a whopping 302-run victory
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India pacer Mohammed Shami celebrates the dismissal of Sri Lanka’s Angelo Matthews at the Wankhede Stadium yesterday. Pics/PTI
This Indian team will take some stopping. If there were any doubts surrounding their all-round strength, those were comprehensively exploded on Thursday night, Sri Lanka at the receiving end of a severe pasting at the Wankhede Stadium.
Before their last game against England, India had won five matches chasing; in Lucknow, they only managed 229 for nine on being put in, significantly below par even on a tricky track. That anomaly was corrected when, despite Rohit Sharma’s second-ball dismissal, India piled up 357 for eight on the back of blistering half-centuries from Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli and local lad Shreyas Iyer, desperately in need of a big score as much for his own confidence as for anything else.
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