Watch: Rohit Sharma lost his off stump on the second ball of the India vs Sri Lanka match at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai today (November 2) courtesy of a cunning off-cutter by Dilshan Madushanka.
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Winning the toss and fielding first, Sri Lanka got off to a brilliant start, getting the huge wicket of in-form Rohit Sharma on the second ball of the game. Coming into this game with 398 runs from six games, Rohit hit a boundary off the very first ball of the match, flicking a ball drifting onto his pads for four.
Probably expecting another inswinger from the left-arm seamer Madushanka, Rohit played inside the line of the second ball, a length ball that pitched on middle, but the shrewdness of the bowler meant that the ball gripped on the surface, held its line, and beat Rohit’s outside edge to crash into his off-stump.
The two previous games that have been played at the Wankhede Stadium in this World Cup were both high-scoring games where the pitch was a belter to bat on in the afternoon. However, the surface on offer for this game has assisted seamers early on with Madushanka and Dushmantha Chameera getting the ball to move sideways in the air as well as off the pitch.
Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli have found it tough and have been lucky, with several catches being dropped or falling in empty pockets on the field, but they have managed to negotiate the first ten overs without any more loss of wickets as India’s score read 60-1 after the first powerplay.
Watch Rohit Sharma loses off stump to off-cutter
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