India topped the points table on day 2 in the England-Asia Indoor Cricket Cup Indian men's team beat Sri Lanka development and Singapore

 

India topped the points table on day 2 

in the England-Asia Indoor Cricket Cup

Indian men's team beat

Sri Lanka development and Singapore Teams

 

Colombo: The England-Asia Cup Indoor Cricket Tournament has started under the initiative of Ceylon Indoor Cricket Association with the approval of World Indoor Cricket Federation (WICF). The brilliant performance of the Indian men's team in this tournament has taken India to the top position in the points table on Day 2 and the Indian men's team has captured this position by beating Sri Lanka Development and Singapore Teams.

 

In indoor cricket, 8 players play on the field and each pair has to bat 4 overs. So for every player dismissed during this time, the team has to lose 5 runs. All 8 players have to bowl 2 overs each.

 

In the late match last night, when the Indian team looked like they would win against Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka came out strong and drew the match. Both teams scored 99-99 runs and both teams got 3.5 points in this match.

 

In today's match, India defeated the Sri Lankan development team by 52 runs. In this match, India scored 115 runs while batting first, & India restricted the Sri Lankan development team to 63 runs in 16 overs and earned 7 points in this match. In this match, India's Daivik Rai and M. Mallikarjun each (16 runs, 2 wickets), Vijay Gowda (15 runs and 2 wickets), Afroz Pasha (21 runs), Dhanush Bhaskar (12 runs and 3 wickets) and Adhiraj Johri (12 runs) performed brilliantly in the victory.

 

In the match against Singapore, India set the goal of an easy victory by restricting Singapore by 13 runs in the first 16 overs, but India scored 143 runs in 16 overs and celebrated the victory by 130 runs, earning 7 points in this match as well and taking the first place in the points table. Vijay Gowda (16 runs and 4 wickets), Afroz Pasha (27 runs, 2 wickets), Daivik Rai (22 runs, 1 wicket) and Adhiraj Johri (22 runs and 1 wicket) performed strongly in this match.

 

Indian Team has proved their undisputed dominance in the tournament with 17.5 points so far, followed by Sri Lanka with 16.5 points. England is in third place with 13 points.