In what could appear an evening of salvation for the Sri Lankan cricket staff, they had been lastly at the podium with the trophy they a lot deserved. After being crushed at two earlier ICC World Cup finals (50-over codecs – 2007 vs Australia, 2011 vs India), the islanders made certain the curse was lastly damaged once they defeated Team India in the finals of the 2014 T20 World Cup at the Sher-e-Bangla stadium, in Dhaka.
Sri Lanka gained the toss and invited the Indians to bat first. They had been in a position to create strain early on, as India misplaced their first wicket of Ajinkya Rahane on 3, in the second over of the innings. Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma retrieved the innings and placed on a 60-run partnership for the second wicket. After Sharma’s departure, India had been 64 for two in the eleventh over. India’s limited-overs talisman Yuvraj Singh got here in and scored 11 runs off 21 balls, which not solely resulted in the run charge falling drastically, but in addition in the lowest first-innings whole in a World T20I closing. Kohli’s superb 77 off 58 was the highest rating, however a disciplined Sri Lankan bowling in the final overs restricted India to simply 130 for 4 in the allotted 20 overs.
In reply, Sri Lanka too confronted an early setback as Kusal Perera was dismissed on 5 and Tillakaratne Dilshan, scored solely 18. However, below palpable strain, in opposition to a shrewd limited-overs captain, Mahela Jayawardene settled the early nerves with a run-a-ball 24, Sangakkara noticed the chase by with an ice-cool unbeaten 52 off 35 and Thisara Perera, unbeaten at 24, steered Sri Lanka to their maiden T20 World Cup title. With the victory, Sri Lanka, aside from India and West Indies are the solely groups to have gained all three main ICC trophies.
