The Sri Lankan team who came to bat first made a target of 170 runs in a 20 over with the loss of 7 wickets.
Like in the past, lack of wicket-taking options hurt their chances as Kohli got to his half-century off just 30 balls.
Kohli’s 54-ball knock secured India’s triumph, as the tourists chased down their 171 targetl with four balls to spare.
Earlier, pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar produced a disciplined bowling effort to pick up a five-wicket haul as India restricted Sri Lanka to 238 runs.
The coin went rolling on the turf and the match referee Andy Mycroft said “Tails, India” thinking Virat had called tails and Murali Karthik went towards Virat Kohli to know his decision.
Kuldeep Yadav said: “If two leg-spinners are playing, then there is more opportunity to take wickets”.
With a challenging, but certainly gettable, total to chase, India lost Rohit Sharma (9) and Lokesh Rahul (24) inside six overs. The team cleaned up the Test and ODI series, which showed their sharpness in shorter cricket.
Along with this, Kohli also became the third highest run scorer in T20 internationals, just behind McCullum (2140 runs) and Tilakaratne Dilshan (1889 runs).
September 7: Sri Lanka interim head coach Nic Pothas has compared Virat Kohli and his men to New Zealand’s All Blacks, who are perhaps the most successful rugby team in the world and are the defending World Champions in rugby. Shanaka held another decent catch at midwicket, from Isuru Udana’s bowling.
The Lankans were put in to bat by India after they won the toss and they got off to a good start.
Dickwella added 23 runs with both Tharanga and Munaweera, as Sri Lanka reached 50 for two in the sixth over. He hit 4 sixers and 5 boundaries.
India 174-3 from 19.2 overs (Kohli 82, Pandey 51*; Prasanna 1-25). But the official presenter Murali Kartik replies by saying “heads it is “and goes on to chat with Kohli”. The frustrated fans resorted to throwing bottles during the fourth ODI, the national selection committee – headed by former captain Sanath Jayasuriya – has resigned en masse, and the pressure on Sri Lanka Cricket president Thilanga Sumathipala to resign has been mounting.
