Mohammed Siraj was the toast of the ongoing Asia Cup 2023 final between India and Sri Lanka which is being played at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on September 17.
Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat first and captain Dasun Shanaka revealed that Dushan Hemantha replaced injured Maheesh Theekshana in the XI. And on the other hand, India captain Rohit Sharma, who is playing his 250th ODI, confirmed that Washington Sundar came in for Akshar Patel.
Jasprit Bumrah opened the account by having Kusal Perera caught by KL Rahul for a duck in the first over. But it was Mohammed Siraj who bowled the over of destruction as he removed four Sri Lankan batters in the 4th over of their innings.
Mohammed Siraj began the rampage in the 4th over of the innings, as he started by removing Pathum Nissanka for 2 runs, who was caught at point by Ravindra Jadeja brilliantly.
Then on the 3rd ball of the over, Sadeera Samarawickrama was trapped in front of the wickets for a duck by Siraj, and on the next ball, Charith Asalanka handed an easy catch to Ishan Kishan on the offside.
On the last ball of an eventful over, Mohammed Siraj had Dhananjaya de Silva caught by KL Rahul to make it four wickets in and over as Sri Lanka slipped to 12/5 in 4 overs.
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Not content with this carnage, Siraj continued his rampage by removing Lankan captain Dasun Shanaka in his next over. Siraj bowled a brilliant outswinger and had the skipper playing the wrong line and lost his off-stump.
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This resulted in Siraj picking up his maiden ODI fifer and picking up a sixth wicket to boost his confidence.
Sri Lanka was bowled out for just 50 runs in the final as Hardik Pandya added 3 wickets to his kitty.