Updated On: 30 July, 2024 07:28 AM IST | Pallekele | R Kaushik
After dismissing batters off successive deliveries in 17th over of India’s win over SL, Player of the Match leggie Bishnoi says turn on offer helped him

India’s Ravi Bishnoi celebrates the wicket of Sri Lanka’s Wanindu Hasaranga during the second T20I in Pallekele on Sunday. Pic/AFP
Yashasvi Jaiswal and Suryakumar Yadav did the heavy lifting, Hardik Pandya applied the finishing touches. Consequently, India clinched the three-match series against Sri Lanka at the first time of asking, surging to a seven-wicket win in the second Twenty20 International via DLS Method at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium on Sunday.
Having rallied splendidly to restrict the hosts to 161 for nine, India were set a revised target of 78 in eight overs after rain halted their chase for 70 minutes. Jaiswal and Suryakumar lay into the bowling with blistering cameos while Pandya exploded in style, victory with a whopping nine deliveries in the bag giving Suryakumar a winning 2-0 lead in his first series as full-time skipper.