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Suryakumar Yadav toyed with the Sri Lankan bowlers, hitting fours and maximums at will and in his trademark manner all across the ground to notch his third ...

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Images from the third and final T20 International between India and Sri Lanka at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Rajkot on Saturday.

As soon as spin was introduced, Tripathi targeted Mahesh Theekshana (0/48) as he hit three fours from the fifth over. With Suryakumar firing on all cyliners, Gill tried to up the ante at the other end as well. The two Sri Lankan openers looked up for the challenge as they shared a brisk 44-run stand.

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Most of the senior players will be in contention, as of now, for the tournament. Roping in younger talent to build the T20 side for next year’s T20 World Cup though will be a bigger challenge. The former India all-rounder will retain his position as chairman of the body, BCCI said in a statement. He was then called for a T20 World Cup review and future planning meeting held in Mumbai last week along with captain Rohit Sharma and head coach Rahul Dravid. They lost the Test series in South Africa 1-2 despite winning the first match to take the lead. Sharma, India’s 1987 World Cup hat-trick hero, first became chairman of selectors in December 2020, replacing former India spinner Sunil Joshi.

In another audacious boundary fest of an innings, T20 great smashes an unbeaten 112 off 51 as India outclass Sri Lanka in the decider.

You look at the numbers from any view – and Suryakumar is so far out in front of the pack. He has taken just 43 innings – Colin Munro is a distant second with 62 innings, while Then he had a satisfied laugh and walked off, a friendly arm around The step-up, of course, has been that he treats pacers with the same disdain now, and with a much greater range. At times, that whip is timed so well it beats both long-on and deep midwicket, but even otherwise, Suryakumar invariably places it well enough between those two to have space for the second run. It is incredible how he is able to delay the uncoiling from his set-up, let the slower one arrive and still generate so much distance on the hit. Dashing down the track, lofting, slogging and sweeping hard, Tripathi kickstarted the innings with 35 off 16. These are very early days as India look to revamp their T20I batting unit after the top-order failure in the 2022 T20 World Cup. During the Indian innings, the broadcasters flashed a table showing that Suryakumar had hit 99 boundaries in the middle overs in T20Is since the start of 2022 (and he would hit a few more on the night on way to a third T20I century). Suryakumar hit nine sixes during his unbeaten 112 off 51 balls, the rest of the India line-up managed five to make 110 off 69. But Suryakumar remained committed to his scoop, despite being caught off balance by the ball speeding into him. Dilshan Madushanka, the Sri Lanka left-arm seamer, had worked up some nippy pace and bounce, and also generated some initial movement, to have Ishan Kishan nicking to slip.

All the live updates from the third T20I between India and Sri Lanka at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot.

Hello and welcome to our live blog for the third and final T20I between India and Sri Lanka in Rajkot. After all, they are yet to win a T20I series in India. He has scores of 7 and 5 in this series and will want a good score against his name tonight. India end up with 228, a powerful total in a decider, and 64 of those came in the last five overs. Suryakumar gets going with a four and a six off Karunaratne, driving over mid-off and executing the whip-pull. Arshdeep follows up with another edge flying to Umran Malik's throat at short third and Sri Lanka are in a bit of a trouble at 44/2. Last five overs remain and it's the perfect time for Hardik to come out. He brings it up with a four over extra-cover, followed by a flick for a maximum. All the bowlers including Pandya and Malik have chipped in with wickets and it looks like a matter of time for India from here. And Sri Lanka yet again are out of clues as to how to get this man out. Comes on to bowl in the powerplay, extracts some extra bounce and has Mendis miscuing the slog to short third man. Sri Lanka, quite clearly, wilted under the pressure of runs and were bowled out for only 137 in response to India's 229/5.