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Cricket season is in full swing
with ODIs win in Sri lanka, Tests in
england and IPl season in uae
Our Bureau 193/7 in the second ODI. India was down
New Delhi/Durham/Colombo and almost out in their chase but Chahar
made sure India get home in the final over.
ndia head coach for Sri Lanka series “We’re all emotional -- the team and coach-
Rahul Dravid delivered a winning es are all emotional. We’re a young team.
Ispeech in the dressing room after the We haven’t won much recently, and we’re
team’s memorable victory against Sri Lan- trying to do our best to play together for
ka at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colom- our country. Everyone tried hard and took
bo on Tuesday. “We said they were going to it to the final over, but unfortunately, we
respond, we knew. We have to respect the couldn’t win,” said Asalanka during a virtu-
opposition. They are also an international al post-match press conference.
team. They responded and we responded “What we talked about in the 40th over
back like a champion team. With our back was to push the game deep. We wanted to
to the wall, we found a way to win,” said Ra- increase their required rate. But they were
hul Dravid in a video posted by BCCI. “Ob- successful because they didn’t lose any wick-
viously we finished on the right side of the ets. They had a plan to play Wanindu out
result which was incredible and fantastic. defensively and get runs off everyone else,
Very well (done) to all of you. Not the time and it worked. If they’d tried to get runs off
to talk about individual players but there Wanindu, then maybe they would have lost.
were fantastic individual performances in India's Deepak Chahar during the ODI match I guess the other bowlers have to talk and
the end. But if you look at the whole game, between India and Sri Lanka, at R.Premadasa figure out how to get a wicket in that situa-
there were very good team performance Stadium in Colombo on Tuesday. (ANI) tion,” he added.
right across the bowling, batting, and even Asalanka also admitted that his side
at the start and guys, in the end, finishing it made mistakes on the field, and the visitors
off. So, it was a very fantastic team perfor- made full use of them. “We did make some
mance and very well done to you,” Dravid mistakes in the field, and we gave away
said. more than 10 runs in the field. We need to
India needed 16 runs to win in the last fix that. Nos. 8 and 9 also scored runs, so we
three overs and the duo of Bhuvneshwar have to figure out how to stop that as well,”
Kumar and Deepak Chahar ensured that said Asalanka.
the team did not lose any wickets and guid- Virat Kohli and boys, who are currently
ed the Men in Blue to a win with five balls in Durham, cheered for the Shikhar Dha-
to spare. With this victory, India has taken wan-led team India as they defeated Sri
an unassailable 2-0 series lead. Lanka in the thrilling second ODI.
“I got to bat today, I am very happy
today. All the time it used to happen that Virat Kohli hits the nets
we fielded for all 50 overs but today I got At Durham, India skipper Virat Kohli
to bat,” said Deepak Chahar in the video. on Wednesday had a proper net session as
India was down and almost out in the chase the Rohit Sharma-led Indian team took on
but Chahar made sure India got home in County Select XI. During the lunch break
the final over. on Day 2 of the ongoing game, Kohli hit the
Sri Lanka batsman Charith Asalan- nets and had a long batting session, where
ka has said everyone in his team is a little he was seen unleashing both defensive and
emotional after suffering a heartbreaking attacking shots. “Hi @imVkohli. A lunch
loss against India in the second ODI of the time net session for the @BCCI captain
three-match series. India's Suryakumar Yadav celebrates his at Emirates Riverside,” tweeted Durham
Deepak Chahar (69*) smashed a gutsy half-century during the ODI match between Cricket.
fifty and shared an unbeaten 84-run stand India and Sri Lanka, at R.Premadasa Stadium in Kohli missed the warm-up game as had
with Bhuvneshwar Kumar (19*) to take In- Colombo on Tuesday. (ANI) been advised rest after he felt stiffness in
dia home after the visitors were reduced to Continued on next page... >>
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