India vs. Sri Lanka Final Asia Cup 2023 Highlights: Finally, Asia Cup 2023 has reached its end. 13 matches were played in this tournament of 19 days. India won the title by defeating Sri Lanka by ten wickets in the final. Sri Lankan captain Dasun Shanaka won the toss and decided to bat first. The Sri Lankan innings was reduced to 50 runs in front of the Indian bowlers. India won the match by ten wickets in 6.1 overs.
India defeated Sri Lanka by ten wickets, and Team India became champion for the eighth time.
India defeated Sri Lanka by ten wickets in the final of the Asia Cup. Team India won this title for the eighth time. Earlier, India had won the title in 1984, 1988, 1990–91, 1995, 2010, 2016 and 2018. India has won this tournament seven times in ODIs and once in T20, while the Sri Lankan team has won this title six times. Sri Lanka has won the title five times in ODI and once in T20. Pakistan team has become champion twice. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has congratulated Team India on winning the Asia Cup title. He wrote on X (earlier Twitter) – Team India played a great game. Congratulations on winning the Asia Cup. Our players have shown remarkable skill throughout the tournament. Sri Lanka won the toss and batted first in the title match played at R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. However, the Indian bowlers wreaked havoc. In front of the stormy bowling of Mohammed Siraj, Hardik Pandya and Jasprit Bumrah, the Sri Lankan innings was reduced to 50 runs in 15.2 overs. Siraj took six wickets, while Hardik got three wickets. Bumrah took one door. In reply, India won the match in just 37 balls. Team India won the final by ten wickets. Shubman Gill remained unbeaten on 27 runs in 19 balls, and Ishan Kishan remained unbeaten on 23 runs in 18 balls. Shubman hit six fours, and Ishaan hit three fours in his innings.
With this victory, India has also ended its five-year trophy drought in multinational tournaments. Before Asia Cup 2023, India last won the Asia Cup title in 2018. Even then, the captain was Rohit Sharma. Even today, under his captaincy, Team India has become the Asia Cup champion. Since the 2018 Asia Cup, India has failed to dominate important matches and occasions. India reached the semi-finals of the 2019 ODI World Cup and 2022 T20 World Cup. It lost to New Zealand in the 2021 World Test Championship (WTC) final and to Australia in the 2023 WTC final. The team also failed to make its presence felt in last year's Asia Cup, in which Sri Lanka won the title. The Asia Cup in 2022 was played in T20 format.
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