India has lost back-to-back matches in the Asia Cup 2022, the first of such sorts under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma. Sri Lanka gave a bit of shock to India. Winning the toss, Sri Lanka put India to put. Team India made one tactical change by bringing in finger spinner Ravichandran Ashwin into the playing XI.
India hasn’t got the start they looked for. Indeed India was on the back foot when Sri Lanka took the wickets of KL Rahul and Virat Kohli cheaply. India was down to 13/2 in no time. Then Rohit Sharma counter-attacked. His 71 turned out to be match-winning. But the middle order failure meant India could only post a total of 173 by the end of 20 overs.
Chasing a competitive total, Sri Lanka has got a fantastic start as both their openers Nissanka and Kusal Mendis completed half-centuries. Chahal tried to bring India back into the game with three wickets but Dasun Shanaka completed the formalities. With this loss, India is almost out of the Asia Cup.
