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Wellalage Gets Dangerous-Looking Rohit Sharma On 35 As IND Lose Both Openers - Watch

Rohit Sharma getting dismissed by Wellalage in IND vs SL 3rd ODI (x.com)Rohit Sharma getting dismissed by Wellalage in IND vs SL 3rd ODI (x.com)

Rohit Sharma's aggressive play has been shut down by Dunith Wellalage as the Indian captain lost his cool while playing a sweep shot, getting dismissed on 35 runs off 20 balls. Sharma had begin in a gung-ho fashion, going after Asitha Fernando and Maheesh Theekshana, but Wellalage had his number. 

Rohit Sharma, who has two explosive half-centuries in the series, smacked six fours and a maximum before the left-arm spinner bowled an off-break at a good length, on which the batter went to sweep but got a faint edge of the bottom of the blade and the keeper did the rest.


Watch: Rohit Sharma's tale ends on 35 in 3rd ODI

Rohit Sharma's collapse initiated an Indian collapse for the third time in the series as India have lost 5 wickets inside 30 runs, with Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, Axar Patel and Shreyas Iyer back in the hut.

At the time of publishing, India's scoreboard is reading 86-6 after 13.1 overs, with Dunith Wellalage running through the Indian batting order. The left-arm tweaker has already snapped four wickets in his first four overs.