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Actually, I think Sri Lanka had a lot of pressure. Because the target was really big. And Sri Lanka was under pressure from the start of the chase. But there is no excuse for them to perform so badly like this. In the first match, Sri Lanka at least tried to reach the total. And the score which they reached was actually decent and respectable. But this time things did not work out for them. They got all out for 72. That is just a shameful performance from Sri Lanka.
For India, it was a record-breaking Sunday, but for Sri Lanka, it was an embarrassing one. As a result of pressure, Sri Lanka did not play well. Against a formidable Indian bowling attack, Sri Lanka produced one of their weakest innings. I congratulate the Indian cricket team on their highest-ever win over Sri Lanka. It has been a promising start to the New Year for India.
Sirlanka didn't even try to win , they performed ok before in t20 and previous ODI but this was some horrible performance by them. Yes their victory was difficult yesterday as India gave a huge target but atleast they could have fought for their pride and respect.  73 all out was not good for a team like Sirlanka.

I think we are not giving enough credit to the Indian bowling lineup. They have actually done well in this match and also in this series in my opinion. But the thing is the Indian players have batted so well that the spotlight never went on the bowlers. They have also done a very good job. Tomorrow India is going to play against New Zealand. India will be very confident to win this series against New Zealand as well. Especially after such a good performance against Sri Lanka.

I'm not sure of the other matches, but in the last match it was the batsmen who gave good opportunity for the bowlers to have a pressure free bowling. When bowling under pressure, surely they won't be able to perform well. The upcoming match need to address the real ability, because New Zealand is in its winning form against Pakistan and Indian pitch seems to be similar to that of Pakistan pitch.
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Actually, I think Sri Lanka had a lot of pressure. Because the target was really big. And Sri Lanka was under pressure from the start of the chase. But there is no excuse for them to perform so badly like this. In the first match, Sri Lanka at least tried to reach the total. And the score which they reached was actually decent and respectable. But this time things did not work out for them. They got all out for 72. That is just a shameful performance from Sri Lanka.
For India, it was a record-breaking Sunday, but for Sri Lanka, it was an embarrassing one. As a result of pressure, Sri Lanka did not play well. Against a formidable Indian bowling attack, Sri Lanka produced one of their weakest innings. I congratulate the Indian cricket team on their highest-ever win over Sri Lanka. It has been a promising start to the New Year for India.
Sirlanka didn't even try to win , they performed ok before in t20 and previous ODI but this was some horrible performance by them. Yes their victory was difficult yesterday as India gave a huge target but atleast they could have fought for their pride and respect.  73 all out was not good for a team like Sirlanka.

I think we are not giving enough credit to the Indian bowling lineup. They have actually done well in this match and also in this series in my opinion. But the thing is the Indian players have batted so well that the spotlight never went on the bowlers. They have also done a very good job. Tomorrow India is going to play against New Zealand. India will be very confident to win this series against New Zealand as well. Especially after such a good performance against Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka will never win a cricket match with India.  Because India is a famous and strong team in the game of cricket.  And India beat Sri Lanka in three ODIs in a row and in the third match India beat Sri Lanka by a huge margin which was 317 runs. So in future it will not be right to arrange matches to play India and Sri Lanka against each other in the first match because it is not fair because India is several times stronger than Sri Lanka.
I will not disagree with you in this point that the India is a famous and a strong team in the world of cricket. But I also think that you can't underestimate by saying that one team will never gonna win against them. You shouldn't forgot that they were also a champion in ODI but you can say that their current performance wasn't good enough for beating the current india . And they are slow to fill the empty slots of  their legendary players.
 But it is true that if you look at the head to head matches in ODI matches India is much ahead of Sri Lanka but it doesn't mean that Sri Lanka can't win with them, I think Sri Lanka also have enough power to beat India.
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Fixing in international matches are generally considered baseless. But in some matches it may happen. Because in a 3-match series,one match is won by the weaker team. Although this is normal but it can be manipulated in many cases. As gambling is now a big industry and if anyone wants to exploit it for financial gain there is nothing to do. But I don't see anything like that in the ODI series between India and Sri Lanka. Due to India's aggressive batting from the very beginning, their total score became very big, as a result of which Sri Lanka had to fail while playing on a big target.
Most of the time I never feel like this because fixing and gambling is still happening, and we have many cases like these but in this series I have feeling no one can do anything related to fixing because this was a useless bilateral series and mostly peoples were aware about Sri Lanka is poor side, and they can't compete with India which is happened with this all at home India mostly done things like these and weaker sides have to suffer results and punishment's like this as well.

Kohli was suffering for long time and this was good opportunity which he takes and hammer badly to new Sri Lankan bowlers with Gill is also new exciting player, so he also takes opportunity and score runs this all makes things worst for the Sri Lanka, and they suffer like this so with this all few peoples feel in this way.
there is always a fixing and gambling going side by side.
I do have a firm believe that most of the matches are fixed - and there is politics and power involved in it.
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Fixing in international matches are generally considered baseless. But in some matches it may happen. Because in a 3-match series,one match is won by the weaker team. Although this is normal but it can be manipulated in many cases. As gambling is now a big industry and if anyone wants to exploit it for financial gain there is nothing to do. But I don't see anything like that in the ODI series between India and Sri Lanka. Due to India's aggressive batting from the very beginning, their total score became very big, as a result of which Sri Lanka had to fail while playing on a big target.
Most of the time I never feel like this because fixing and gambling is still happening, and we have many cases like these but in this series I have feeling no one can do anything related to fixing because this was a useless bilateral series and mostly peoples were aware about Sri Lanka is poor side, and they can't compete with India which is happened with this all at home India mostly done things like these and weaker sides have to suffer results and punishment's like this as well.

Kohli was suffering for long time and this was good opportunity which he takes and hammer badly to new Sri Lankan bowlers with Gill is also new exciting player, so he also takes opportunity and score runs this all makes things worst for the Sri Lanka, and they suffer like this so with this all few peoples feel in this way.
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Looks like many Kohli haters understood why it's pointless trying to troll him now. This dude is back on track now and is inching closer and closer to breaking the little master's records in the future.

Also, Siraj, Malik and Yadav were the best bowlers of this series in my opinion.
I believe in 2023 Koach will surpass Sachin paji in terms of ODI hundreds. He needs only 4 hundred and we have ODI WC this year so plenty of ODI matches are scheduled. Fingers crossed!

I'm loving it as prestige BGT is also lined up next month and he's getting into form is good for India, hope he replicates his ODI form into Test too, need at least 2 tons there as well.

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In my opinion, the bad start of the year never have any impact on team and their future but right now these both former world champions in ODI and T20i facing same situations not only in cricket but in other many aspects as well which needs improvement and better strategy for fixing their problems because both have enough quality and players those can bring changes in any game but having no discipline and performance giving them shocking defeats.

Pakistan done good against New Zealand but in last game GP done good time damage and win the series for his team but for Sri Lanka we have the worst case as they lost badly and have no positive things which bring better results for them as well which is surely more terrible for them in coming days as well.

The journey of Pakistan is going to be interesting this season. They have certainly not started well this year. But that does not necessarily mean they are going to finish badly as well this year. But I am actually worried about the situation in Pakistan right now. If the political situation does not become stable, it is going to be hard for Pakistan to concentrate on cricket. But even in such tough situations, Pakistan is doing well and also trying to do better. And one thing I am very interested to see is the one day international world cup of cricket is coming up this year. I am very interested to see the performance of Pakistan in that tournament.
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Hmm so Pakistan ended their home season with no series win? This must be some kind of record.

Lost test series against Aussie
Lost T-20 series against Poms. 3-nil  test series against the same opponent
Draw test series against Kiwis, followed by ODI loss.

I'm missing something or they won any series, did they play any white ball cricket against Australia?

Yes they played ODI series against Australia and that's there only home series win in last year. Pakistan was favorite for WTC final as they were scheduled to play against Australia, England and New Zealand at home and rest is history. It was first time that Pakistan is whitewashed at home in test series. Whats next? I can see Babar losing Captaincy in Test format and Sarfraz taking over Test Captaincy.

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/australia-in-pakistan-2021-22-1288300/pakistan-vs-australia-3rd-odi-1288315/full-scorecard
Aha well, at least they won something.

Otherwise, they were the really generous hosts for every touring team and their batters, they truly handed out countless tons to everyone on silver platters.

And what about limited overs captaincy?
Pakistan is going through troublesome time - Babar Azam being in hot water too.
I believe Ramiz Raja kept the team united - but with the arrival of NAjam shethi the team performance is again showing the worse.
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Sri Lanka will never win a cricket match with India.  Because India is a famous and strong team in the game of cricket.  And India beat Sri Lanka in three ODIs in a row and in the third match India beat Sri Lanka by a huge margin which was 317 runs. So in future it will not be right to arrange matches to play India and Sri Lanka against each other in the first match because it is not fair because India is several times stronger than Sri Lanka.
What are you talking about actually? Although Sri Lanka has lost most of the matches against India since last few years, but you can't underestimate them in such way. Check the head to head stats of India and Sri Lanka. They have played 165 ODI matches against each other, where India has won 96 matches and Sri Lanka has won 57 matches. Why you think that Sri Lanka will never win a match against India?
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Well, he got what he wanted. The winning margin is 317 runs, that's what a perfect match looks like for any team.

Young guy Gill scored his second ton, the captain himself got a few runs, and then Koach got the daddy hundred.

Siraj, Shami, and Kulee were too good for Lankan's batters.

Today's 3rd match was a performance match dominated by Indian batsmen and bowlers only. The win by a huge margin of 317 runs is truly extraordinary. The Sri Lankan batsmen and bowlers had nothing to do but watch.
The match was just like kids play with pro Grin , so shameful performance for team SiriLanka, they lost Thier confident when they got such a huge target. All credit goes to king Kohli , S.Gill and all indian bowler , I think the performance of team India show that how well they  prepared himself and still ongoing for upcoming Asia Cup in ODI format and also the upcoming ODI world in india. Hope such kind of performance will increase the moral of indian team player and will put huge pressure on other team..
Seems like the match was fixed. And India did it.
Sri Lankan players were so helpless and they were unable to perform well.
I don't think so that SiriLanka can fix this match because everyone know that India are far better than SiriLanka so due to these reason we can expect such kind of huge performance from India,
because always they are well known for Thier strong and full of potential batting lineup.
I think comback of king Kohli from bad form make India more stronger than any other team, and specially Siraj did phenomenal in bowling which help India to win the match with too high margin.
Sri Lanka will never win a cricket match with India.  Because India is a famous and strong team in the game of cricket.  And India beat Sri Lanka in three ODIs in a row and in the third match India beat Sri Lanka by a huge margin which was 317 runs. So in future it will not be right to arrange matches to play India and Sri Lanka against each other in the first match because it is not fair because India is several times stronger than Sri Lanka.
Based on today match I can say that Sri Lanka will never win against India. And India is a much stronger team than Sri Lanka. In the third ODI cricket match, India batted first and managed to score 390 runs by losing five wickets in the allotted 50 overs. With a target of 391 runs, he played only 22 cover balls and managed to score 73 runs, losing all the wickets. A team can never be called strong after losing by 317 runs. India has really become very strong here. That has been proven from today's match. Kudos to the Indian cricket team for beating Sri Lanka by 317 runs to win the series today.
India vs Sri Lanka 3rd ODI match. In this match, India batted first and scored 390 runs. Centuries were scored by Shubman Grill and Virat Kohli. Virat Kohli scored his 74th career century in today's match. Today is his 46th century in ODI cricket alone. Batting on a huge target of 391 runs, the Sri Lankans were defeated by India by a huge margin. The Sri Lankans lost all the wickets for 73 runs in the Indian bowling ball. And here the Indian cricket team got a huge victory by 317 runs.
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Well, he got what he wanted. The winning margin is 317 runs, that's what a perfect match looks like for any team.

Young guy Gill scored his second ton, the captain himself got a few runs, and then Koach got the daddy hundred.

Siraj, Shami, and Kulee were too good for Lankan's batters.

Today's 3rd match was a performance match dominated by Indian batsmen and bowlers only. The win by a huge margin of 317 runs is truly extraordinary. The Sri Lankan batsmen and bowlers had nothing to do but watch.
The match was just like kids play with pro Grin , so shameful performance for team SiriLanka, they lost Thier confident when they got such a huge target. All credit goes to king Kohli , S.Gill and all indian bowler , I think the performance of team India show that how well they  prepared himself and still ongoing for upcoming Asia Cup in ODI format and also the upcoming ODI world in india. Hope such kind of performance will increase the moral of indian team player and will put huge pressure on other team..
Seems like the match was fixed. And India did it.
Sri Lankan players were so helpless and they were unable to perform well.
I don't think so that SiriLanka can fix this match because everyone know that India are far better than SiriLanka so due to these reason we can expect such kind of huge performance from India,
because always they are well known for Thier strong and full of potential batting lineup.
I think comback of king Kohli from bad form make India more stronger than any other team, and specially Siraj did phenomenal in bowling which help India to win the match with too high margin.
Sri Lanka will never win a cricket match with India.  Because India is a famous and strong team in the game of cricket.  And India beat Sri Lanka in three ODIs in a row and in the third match India beat Sri Lanka by a huge margin which was 317 runs. So in future it will not be right to arrange matches to play India and Sri Lanka against each other in the first match because it is not fair because India is several times stronger than Sri Lanka.
Based on today match I can say that Sri Lanka will never win against India. And India is a much stronger team than Sri Lanka. In the third ODI cricket match, India batted first and managed to score 390 runs by losing five wickets in the allotted 50 overs. With a target of 391 runs, he played only 22 cover balls and managed to score 73 runs, losing all the wickets. A team can never be called strong after losing by 317 runs. India has really become very strong here. That has been proven from today's match. Kudos to the Indian cricket team for beating Sri Lanka by 317 runs to win the series today.
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Well, he got what he wanted. The winning margin is 317 runs, that's what a perfect match looks like for any team.

Young guy Gill scored his second ton, the captain himself got a few runs, and then Koach got the daddy hundred.

Siraj, Shami, and Kulee were too good for Lankan's batters.

Today's 3rd match was a performance match dominated by Indian batsmen and bowlers only. The win by a huge margin of 317 runs is truly extraordinary. The Sri Lankan batsmen and bowlers had nothing to do but watch.
The match was just like kids play with pro Grin , so shameful performance for team SiriLanka, they lost Thier confident when they got such a huge target. All credit goes to king Kohli , S.Gill and all indian bowler , I think the performance of team India show that how well they  prepared himself and still ongoing for upcoming Asia Cup in ODI format and also the upcoming ODI world in india. Hope such kind of performance will increase the moral of indian team player and will put huge pressure on other team..
Seems like the match was fixed. And India did it.
Sri Lankan players were so helpless and they were unable to perform well.
I don't think so that SiriLanka can fix this match because everyone know that India are far better than SiriLanka so due to these reason we can expect such kind of huge performance from India,
because always they are well known for Thier strong and full of potential batting lineup.
I think comback of king Kohli from bad form make India more stronger than any other team, and specially Siraj did phenomenal in bowling which help India to win the match with too high margin.
Sri Lanka will never win a cricket match with India.  Because India is a famous and strong team in the game of cricket.  And India beat Sri Lanka in three ODIs in a row and in the third match India beat Sri Lanka by a huge margin which was 317 runs. So in future it will not be right to arrange matches to play India and Sri Lanka against each other in the first match because it is not fair because India is several times stronger than Sri Lanka.
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Well, he got what he wanted. The winning margin is 317 runs, that's what a perfect match looks like for any team.

Young guy Gill scored his second ton, the captain himself got a few runs, and then Koach got the daddy hundred.

Siraj, Shami, and Kulee were too good for Lankan's batters.

Today's 3rd match was a performance match dominated by Indian batsmen and bowlers only. The win by a huge margin of 317 runs is truly extraordinary. The Sri Lankan batsmen and bowlers had nothing to do but watch.
The match was just like kids play with pro Grin , so shameful performance for team SiriLanka, they lost Thier confident when they got such a huge target. All credit goes to king Kohli , S.Gill and all indian bowler , I think the performance of team India show that how well they  prepared himself and still ongoing for upcoming Asia Cup in ODI format and also the upcoming ODI world in india. Hope such kind of performance will increase the moral of indian team player and will put huge pressure on other team..
Seems like the match was fixed. And India did it.
Sri Lankan players were so helpless and they were unable to perform well.
I don't think so that SiriLanka can fix this match because everyone know that India are far better than SiriLanka so due to these reason we can expect such kind of huge performance from India,
because always they are well known for Thier strong and full of potential batting lineup.
I think comback of king Kohli from bad form make India more stronger than any other team, and specially Siraj did phenomenal in bowling which help India to win the match with too high margin.
Fixing in international matches are generally considered baseless. But in some matches it may happen. Because in a 3-match series,one match is won by the weaker team. Although this is normal but it can be manipulated in many cases. As gambling is now a big industry and if anyone wants to exploit it for financial gain there is nothing to do. But I don't see anything like that in the ODI series between India and Sri Lanka. Due to India's aggressive batting from the very beginning, their total score became very big, as a result of which Sri Lanka had to fail while playing on a big target.
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Well, he got what he wanted. The winning margin is 317 runs, that's what a perfect match looks like for any team.

Young guy Gill scored his second ton, the captain himself got a few runs, and then Koach got the daddy hundred.

Siraj, Shami, and Kulee were too good for Lankan's batters.

Today's 3rd match was a performance match dominated by Indian batsmen and bowlers only. The win by a huge margin of 317 runs is truly extraordinary. The Sri Lankan batsmen and bowlers had nothing to do but watch.
The match was just like kids play with pro Grin , so shameful performance for team SiriLanka, they lost Thier confident when they got such a huge target. All credit goes to king Kohli , S.Gill and all indian bowler , I think the performance of team India show that how well they  prepared himself and still ongoing for upcoming Asia Cup in ODI format and also the upcoming ODI world in india. Hope such kind of performance will increase the moral of indian team player and will put huge pressure on other team..
Seems like the match was fixed. And India did it.
Sri Lankan players were so helpless and they were unable to perform well.
I don't think so that SiriLanka can fix this match because everyone know that India are far better than SiriLanka so due to these reason we can expect such kind of huge performance from India,
because always they are well known for Thier strong and full of potential batting lineup.
I think comback of king Kohli from bad form make India more stronger than any other team, and specially Siraj did phenomenal in bowling which help India to win the match with too high margin.

Although the match was boring except i enjoyed the batting from the Indian Batsmen. However the main highlight of this match was Virat Kholi who scored 166 runs and was also the man of the match. After a long time i have seen Virat played such a big good innings. He score thee runs in only 110 balls.
He scored these runs with a strike rate of 150 , which is too good when you consider this was not a T20 match but a one day international
match.
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Well, he got what he wanted. The winning margin is 317 runs, that's what a perfect match looks like for any team.

Young guy Gill scored his second ton, the captain himself got a few runs, and then Koach got the daddy hundred.

Siraj, Shami, and Kulee were too good for Lankan's batters.

Today's 3rd match was a performance match dominated by Indian batsmen and bowlers only. The win by a huge margin of 317 runs is truly extraordinary. The Sri Lankan batsmen and bowlers had nothing to do but watch.
The match was just like kids play with pro Grin , so shameful performance for team SiriLanka, they lost Thier confident when they got such a huge target. All credit goes to king Kohli , S.Gill and all indian bowler , I think the performance of team India show that how well they  prepared himself and still ongoing for upcoming Asia Cup in ODI format and also the upcoming ODI world in india. Hope such kind of performance will increase the moral of indian team player and will put huge pressure on other team..
Seems like the match was fixed. And India did it.
Sri Lankan players were so helpless and they were unable to perform well.
I don't think so that SiriLanka can fix this match because everyone know that India are far better than SiriLanka so due to these reason we can expect such kind of huge performance from India,
because always they are well known for Thier strong and full of potential batting lineup.
I think comback of king Kohli from bad form make India more stronger than any other team, and specially Siraj did phenomenal in bowling which help India to win the match with too high margin.
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Pakistan actually performed decent enough. But they did not perform well enough to win. So I think if Pakistan is actually interested in improving they will be able to. But Sri Lanka did not perform well enough as they should have in my opinion. And the last match from Sri Lanka was absolutely horrible. There's no way they should have been all out for 72 runs.

But overall I agree that this is not a good start for Pakistan and Sri Lanka this year. Hopefully, there will be able to improve and perform better in the next series.
In my opinion, the bad start of the year never have any impact on team and their future but right now these both former world champions in ODI and T20i facing same situations not only in cricket but in other many aspects as well which needs improvement and better strategy for fixing their problems because both have enough quality and players those can bring changes in any game but having no discipline and performance giving them shocking defeats.

Pakistan done good against New Zealand but in last game GP done good time damage and win the series for his team but for Sri Lanka we have the worst case as they lost badly and have no positive things which bring better results for them as well which is surely more terrible for them in coming days as well.
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Looks like many Kohli haters understood why it's pointless trying to troll him now. This dude is back on track now and is inching closer and closer to breaking the little master's records in the future.

Also, Siraj, Malik and Yadav were the best bowlers of this series in my opinion.

Seems like the match was fixed. And India did it. 
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The match was just like kids play with pro Grin , so shameful performance for team SiriLanka, they lost Thier confident when they got such a huge target.
If you remember, in the first ODI India scored 373 runs and Sri Lanka in return scored 306 runs, so you cannot simply claim this pathetic performance as the pressure of the target but the pitch itself might be the reason and definitely the bowlers especially Mohammed Siraj even though unfortunately he missed on a 5 wicket haul in the match he ripped the Sri Lankan batting.
We can't say there's no pressure. Sri Lanka had much pressure, looking the big target in front of them. 350 runs and 390 runs have got much difference. Even in the first match Sri Lanka started same as this match, but the scoring from Nissanka kept the match alive and made other players contribute. This time the same didn't work and the bowlers took advantage. It is the bowling that brought such a win for India.

Actually, I think Sri Lanka had a lot of pressure. Because the target was really big. And Sri Lanka was under pressure from the start of the chase. But there is no excuse for them to perform so badly like this. In the first match, Sri Lanka at least tried to reach the total. And the score which they reached was actually decent and respectable. But this time things did not work out for them. They got all out for 72. That is just a shameful performance from Sri Lanka.
For India, it was a record-breaking Sunday, but for Sri Lanka, it was an embarrassing one. As a result of pressure, Sri Lanka did not play well. Against a formidable Indian bowling attack, Sri Lanka produced one of their weakest innings. I congratulate the Indian cricket team on their highest-ever win over Sri Lanka. It has been a promising start to the New Year for India.
Sirlanka didn't even try to win , they performed ok before in t20 and previous ODI but this was some horrible performance by them. Yes their victory was difficult yesterday as India gave a huge target but atleast they could have fought for their pride and respect.  73 all out was not good for a team like Sirlanka.
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OMG. What a match it was! What a domination! The last Biggest win in ODIs (by runs) was 290 New Zealand vs. Ireland Aberdeen in 2008. Now it's 317 India vs. Sri Lanka Trivandrum 2023 *. Kohli And Gill Were outstanding with the bat. His unbeatable 166 will be one of his best matches, even though his high score is 183. Indian pacers just destroyed the Sri Lankan's batting lineup. Only Three batters were able to score double figures. Amazing.
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Pakistan had lost the series against New Zealand and lost the final match even though they made a good 280 runs in the first innings. Here in this match, Srilanka had already lost the series and when they knew that target near 390 is impossible to chase, they have just fallen apart at under 100 runs.

Anyways, not a good start to the year for both Pakistan and Srilanka, they should forget about this series' losses and focus more to get better results in the rest of the matches to be played throughout the year.
Pakistan had a terrible last year in Test format but in ODI they are reasonably better as they played 3 ODI series againest Australia, Netherland and WI. They were able to win all three series.
Srilanka perfromance againest India is very much surprising, as they played like an associate team. One thing is good from India prespective that Kohli has gained has momentum by scoring 283 runs in three ODIs. I am not able to understand where Srilanka cricket is going, they beat Aus in Test series, won Asia cup and now this collapse.

Pakistan actually performed decent enough. But they did not perform well enough to win. So I think if Pakistan is actually interested in improving they will be able to. But Sri Lanka did not perform well enough as they should have in my opinion. And the last match from Sri Lanka was absolutely horrible. There's no way they should have been all out for 72 runs.

But overall I agree that this is not a good start for Pakistan and Sri Lanka this year. Hopefully, there will be able to improve and perform better in the next series.
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