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          27/08Result
          3rd ODI (D/N), India tour of Sri Lanka at Kandy, Aug 27 2017
          India won by 6 wkts (29b rem)
          Player of the Match
          Jasprit Bumrah
          Jasprit BumrahIndia
          27/08Result
          3rd ODI (D/N), India tour of Sri Lanka at Kandy, Aug 27 2017
          India won by 6 wkts (29b rem)
          Player of the Match
          Jasprit Bumrah
          Jasprit BumrahIndia

          SL v IND 2017 News

          A hundred in SL, finally

          0

          Hunderds by Rohit Sharma from 23 ODIs in Sri Lanka before this. He had averaged 16.14 before today.

          Bumrah's best

          0

          No. of five-wicket hauls by Bumrah in ODIs before today. He took 5/27 in this match. Bumrah has taken 11 wickets in this series at an average of 8.36.

          Starts wasted

          12

          No. of times SL batsmen have got out without scoring a fifty out of the 16 times they have made at least 10 in this series. Only 3 of them have made 50s.

          Three in a row

          6

          No. of SL batsmen to get fifty-plus scores in three or more consecutive ODIs v IND before Thirimanne, who joins that list in this match.

          Favourite opposition

          4

          No. of fifty-plus by Lahiru Thirimanne against India in ODIs - his joint most against any team. Two of those have come in his last-two innings against them.

          Probing Bumrah

          73

          Percentage dots bowled by Bumrah in his first spell of five overs. Batsmen played false shots to 14 of the 30 balls bowled by him.

          Series on the line, yet again

          1997

          The last time SL did not lose a bilateral series against India in ODIs. They have lost all the seven series (two or more ODIs) since then.