New Delhi: The Indian cricket team has started the 3-match ODI series with Sri Lanka with a win. In the first match of the series played in Guwahati, India defeated Sri Lanka by 67 runs. India scored a massive score of 373 while batting first. In response, the Sri Lankan team was able to score only 306 runs. In this match, Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bowl first. Batting first, Team India set a mammoth target of 373 runs.

Virat Kohli scored the highest number of 113 runs for India. Apart from him, captain Rohit Sharma scored 83 runs in 67 balls. At the same time, Shubman Gill also played an excellent inning of 70 runs in 60 balls. Virat Kohli was given 'Player of the Match' for his blistering century. Sri Lanka got off to a very poor start to chase the target. Two Sri Lankan batsmen were dismissed in the powerplay itself. After this, Nishanka standing at one end tried to save the team by playing an inning of 72 runs. Dhananjay D'Silva also scored 47 runs before Dasun Shanaka made a brilliant 108 in the end, but by then the match was out of Sri Lanka's hands. However, all these players took Sri Lanka's score past 300. Shanaka remained unbeaten at one end and Sri Lanka lost the match by 67 runs.

Chasing 374, the Sri Lankan batsmen could only manage a total of 306 runs. Umran Malik took the most wickets for India. The second match of this series will be played on Thursday, January 12, 2023, at Eden Gardens, Kolkata. Let us tell you that recently Virat Kohli reached Mathura with his wife Anushka Sharma and daughter Vamika and sought blessings after listening to a sermon at a saint's ashram, whose videos had also gone viral.

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