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Lakmal leads Sri Lankan rout of India in first ODI
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Pace bowler Suranga Lakmal helped Sri Lanka steamroll India by seven wickets in the first one-day international in Dharamsala yesterday.
The 30-year-old claimed four wickets for 13 runs in his impeccable 10 overs, which included four maidens, as the tourists bundled out India for 112 in 38.2 overs at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium.
India was reeling at 29-7 in the 17th over before Mahendra Singh Dhoni struck a belligerent 65, with the former captain contributing more than half of the team total.
Sri Lanka鈥檚 top order was not completely convincing against the moving ball but Upul Tharanga鈥檚 breezy 49 helped it chase down the small target with nearly 30 overs to spare and go 1-0 up in the three-match series.
Smarting from its 0-1 loss in the preceding test series, Sri Lanka opted to field against an Indian team led by Rohit Sharma in the absence of regular skipper Virat Kohli who has been rested ahead of the team鈥檚 imminent tour of South Africa.
India got off to a terrible start losing Shikhar Dhawan, one of its five scoreless batsmen in the match, in the second over which triggered a spectacular collapse.
Angelo Mathews, an allrounder who has been reduced by injury to an occasional bowler, dismissed Dhawan leg-before and Lakmal sent back Sharma caught behind for two in the fifth.
On both occasions, Sri Lanka used the review option to overturn the original not out decisions.
The double blow completely unhinged India, which lost the top half of its batting order to score its first 16 runs.
Dhoni combined with No. 9 Kuldeep Yadav (19) to help India first go past the record for lowest ODI total of 35 鈥 by Zimbabwe against Sri Lanka in a 2004 match in Harare 鈥 and then its own lowest total of 54 against the Sri Lankans.
Dhoni hit 10 boundaries and a couple of sixes but India still ended up with a total which Sri Lanka overcame without breaking a sweat.
Mohali, also in north India, hosts the second ODI on Wednesday.
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