Internet Desk: India registered an overall clean sweep against hosts Sri Lanka when they won the lone T20 game to inflict a crushing defeat on the island nation. An overall whitewash in all formats of thr game sees the Men in Blue as one of the successful tours of all times. A 3-0 win in tests, followed by a 5-0 thrashing in ODI’s and now a victory in T20 makes the Virat Kohli led side as one the best of all times.
Run machine Kohli made 1000 runs in chase and is also the highest player with most 50s in the shortest format of the game (17).
The Lankans batted first and scored a good total of 170-7 after the end of 20 overs. Munaweera was the highest scorer with 53 runs followed by Priyanjan who made 40. Yuzvendra Chahal took 3 wickets while Kuldeep Yadav scalped 2.
While chasing a target of 171, India lost both their openers in 42 runs as Rohit and KL Rahul made way to the pavilion scoring 9 and 24 respectively. A brilliant partnership between Kohli and Manish Pandey proved to be the turning point of the game. Pandey remained not out scoring 51 with 4 boundaries and a six while Kohli handsomely scored 82 with 7 fours and a sixer. Dhoni remained not out on 1 as India comfortably won the game with 7 wickets in 19.2 overs.
This Tour of Sri Lanka proves to be a dream series of the players as they became the first team to win 9-0 over hosts( 3Tests, 5ODIs and 1 T20).