So close yet so farfetch'd. It was the sombre theme of the evening for Sri Lanka, who appeared to be putting a lid on their sequence of defeats before seeing victory slip away once more. The pinch of the defeat was felt by someone as new as Charith Asalanka, who is less than a month and four ODIs into his international career. He had, afterall, played a starring role in setting up the game for his side with a composed 65 with the bat before it was all undone by a
INDIA TOUR OF SRI LANKA, 2021
We're all emotional: Asalanka reflects on a match that slipped away

Inda pulled off a heist in the second ODI to seal the three-match series © AFP