This Indian player is the villain number-1 of the Sri Lanka tour, due to this India lost the ODI series 2-0

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|09-08-2024

ODI: Although India won the 3-match T20 series played between Sri Lanka and India (SL vs IND), but after this, Team India had to face a 2-0 defeat in the 3 ODI series. Team India's performance in the ODI series against Sri Lanka was poor in all three matches. Due to which the Indian team has lost the series against Sri Lanka after 27 years.

Earlier, Sri Lanka had won the series against India in 1997. Let us tell you that the performance of many players of Team India was poor in the ODI series. But today we will tell you who has been the biggest enemy of Team India in the series against Sri Lanka. Due to which the team has lost.

This player was the biggest villain!

This Indian player is the villain number-1 of the Sri Lanka tour, due to this India lost the ODI series 2-0

Team India's star batsman Virat Kohli's performance against Sri Lanka has always been excellent. But in this series Virat Kohli was a complete flop. Due to which Team India had to face defeat.

Because, whenever Kohli flops in the series, Team India often loses. While something similar was seen in the ODI series against Sri Lanka. Kohli could not play a good innings in any match in this series. Due to which there was pressure on the middle order of Team India and the team disintegrated.

Kohli could score only 58 runs

Let us tell you that the performance of veteran batsman Virat Kohli was poor in the 3 ODI series against Sri Lanka and he scored just 58 runs in 3 innings. This is the first time that Kohli has proved to be such a flop in a series against Sri Lanka.

Before this, in his debut year 2008, he scored runs against Sri Lanka at an average of 30. In this series, Kohli batted at an average of just 19. Due to which the team lost. The batting of the Indian team depends a lot on Kohli.

lost by 2-0

The first match of the 3 ODI series between Sri Lanka and India was a tie. In this match, Sri Lanka had set a target of 231 runs for India. But India was able to score only 230 runs. While in the second match, Sri Lanka was successful in scoring 240 runs and in response to this, India was able to score only 208 runs and lost the match by 32 runs.

In the third match, India got a target of 248 runs. But the Indian team could score only 138 runs and lost the match by 110 runs. Due to which Sri Lanka was successful in winning the series 2-0.

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