KL Rahul And Bowlers Help India Seal A Comfortable Win At Indore - Twitter Reacts

Once again, the Indian National Cricket Team had a fabulous time at work in Indore against the Sri Lankan team. The excellent display of bowling followed by the solid batting show from KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer helped India to go 1-0 up in the 3-match series.

In reply to the chase, the openers KL Rahul and Shikhar Dhawan never allowed Sri Lanka bowlers to settle in the middle. KL Rahul, in particular, went against the bowlers with his oozing class. The duo added 71 runs for the first wicket before Wanindu Hasaranga dismissing KL Rahul on his score of 45.

Virat Kohli finishes off in style:

Shikhar Dhawan followed him quickly, which gave Shreyas Iyer and Virat Kohli a chance to show their class in the middle. Both the batsmen finished the task with ease in the end. For Sri Lanka, Hasaranga was the only bowler, who delivered the goods for the team.

Earlier, after losing the toss, the openers Avishka Fernando and Danushka Gunathilaka started things off in style by knocking boundaries more often than not in the powerplay overs. However, Washington Sundar gave a crucial breakthrough for the team to settle things in the middle.

Danushka Gunathilaka followed Avishka Fernando when Navdeep Saini delivered a peach of the delivery to rattle the defence of Gunathilaka. Following the dismissals, Kusal Perera tried his best to get runs at a quick pace. Much like the openers, Kusal also failed to capitalise the start.

Indian bowlers never allowed the Sri Lanka batsmen to score runs at the higher rate, which helped India to bundle out the opposition for a low tally of 142 on the board. Shardul Thakur picked three wickets while Navdeep Saini, Kuldeep picked a couple of wickets each.

Here are a few tweets:

https://twitter.com/Aditya_k168/status/1214588220392058885

Dhawan missed golden opportunity today#INDvSL #AskStar @StarSportsIndia

— Nishant Kumar (@Nishant92786233) January 7, 2020

India win by 7 wickets and take 1-0 lead in the three-match T20I series!#INDvSL pic.twitter.com/Qeh2Fgi2eu

— ICC (@ICC) January 7, 2020

That's that from Indore.#TeamIndia win by 7 wickets. Lead the three-match series 1-0.#INDvSL pic.twitter.com/5mtCxcHFHr

— BCCI (@BCCI) January 7, 2020

Can we have real match with real team. Easy win dosent excit us. Need to have real T-20 with NZ, Eng, Aus #INDvSL

— SHREYA (@shreya_whisper) January 7, 2020

Congratulations @imVkohli for fastest 1000 runs in T20 and Team India for taking 1-0 lead in #INDvSL series. Spell of Navdeep Saini was moment of the match. pic.twitter.com/zsXKL7kit6

— R P Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh) January 7, 2020

That's the win of the first T20 match of 2020.!#INDvSL

— Arun Kumar (@arun_kumarkp) January 7, 2020

First T20 win of the decade in the ?#INDvSL #TeamIndia @BCCI pic.twitter.com/O1AEHuEP6Q

— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals) January 7, 2020

HUM JEET GAYE ?? #INDvSL pic.twitter.com/XDmLZw3RsX

— सुयश स्वरूप சுயஷ் ஸ்வரூப் ????️卐??️ (@sscomp32) January 7, 2020

https://twitter.com/Aditya_k168/status/1214589679904804864

When #shardulthakur takes 3 wickets in one over….

INDvsSL pic.twitter.com/2pXJqq2fzw

— अक्की  (@akkisarcasm) January 7, 2020

People trolling dhawan should understand that, he was making a comeback after the injury so please give him some time. Bumrah also didn't have a great match as a bowler, he was also making a comeback.

So please give some time to dhawan
He will troll his haters soon #INDvSL

— ` (@Rohits_warrior_) January 7, 2020

Stunning shot for 6 by @imVkohli to seal match. India would have chased even 180 on this pitch so Lanka actually let down by batsmen, not bowlers. Strong start to 2020 by #TeamIndia. Bumrah’s return, form of Rahul and Iyer adds to heft.

— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) January 7, 2020

Not being arrogant but with the current Bangladesh and Srilanka sides as an experiment we should play our India U-19 side. 8 out of 10 times I think India will win 🙂

— Vikram Sathaye (@vikramsathaye) January 7, 2020

#SportsTak wale kya discuss karenge aaj? Rishabh Pant ki to batting bhi nahi aayi ?? #IndvSL

— Wanderer (@DisDatNothin) January 7, 2020

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