Sri Lankan captain Charith Aslanka created history in ODI, scored a double century of 206 runs while thrashing like Rohit Sharma

Manish Gaidhankar
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  • Indian captain Rohit Sharma’s performance in ODI cricket has been tremendous. His bat has thundered fiercely in 50 over cricket. At the same time, now Sri Lanka’s dashing batsman Charith Aslanka has reminded fans of Rohit Sharma by playing a double century innings of 206 runs.
Charith Aslanka

Indian captain Rohit Sharma ‘s performance in ODI cricket has been tremendous. His bat has thundered fiercely in 50 over cricket. Meanwhile, he played the most memorable innings of his career of 264 runs against Sri Lanka. Now, Sri Lanka cricket team’s left-handed batsman Charith Asalanka has created a stir in ODI cricket by batting in the style of Rohit Sharma. He scored a lot of runs by thrashing the bowlers and impressed the audience. 

Charith Aslanka’s bat created a ruckus 

Sri Lanka cricket team’s left-handed batsman Charith Asalanka ‘s performance in ODI cricket has been excellent. Batting at an average of 42.45, he has scored more than 2100 runs. Meanwhile, he reminded cricket fans of Indian batsman Rohit Sharma by scoring a double century in a match. Actually, Sri Lanka National Super League Limited Over Tournament was organized in October, in which Charith Asalanka was a part of the Colombo team. They faced Jaffna in the final match played in Dambulla on 6 October. 

Scored a lot of runs by thrashing the bowlers 

After winning the toss, Colombo decided to bat first, after which the team scored 413 runs for the loss of six wickets in 50 overs. Captain Charith Aslanka and opening batsman Avishka Fernando made important contributions in this. The team was able to achieve this score due to the stormy innings of these two.

However, in the meantime, Charith Aslanka’s bat created havoc. He smashed the bowlers and scored a lot of runs. He played a double century innings by hitting a flurry of sixes and fours. Charith Aslanka scored 206 runs in 12 fours and 16 sixes. His innings has again reminded the fans of Rohit Sharma’s double century played in ODIs.

gave the team a win 

Apart from Charith Aslanka, Avishka Fernando played a century innings and scored 126 runs in 113 balls. The innings of Jaffna team which came to bat in the reply innings was limited to 321 runs in 47.1 overs. During this Ron Chandragupta contributed 56 runs, Lahiru Madushanka contributed 104 runs and Mohammad Shamaz contributed 49 runs. Colombo won the title match by 92 runs. Dilam Sudira took three wickets for Colombo. Nuwan Thushara, Dasun Shanka and Charith Aslanka took 2-2 wickets each. 

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