Pathum Nissanka hits a double ton in ODI against Afghanistan. Afghanistan is touring Sri Lanka for series in across formats. They will play a three match ODI series against Sri Lanka. Today the first match of the series took place at Pallekele. Afghanistan captain Shahidi won the toss and decided to bowl first. But later on he must have regretted about his decision because the Sri Lankan opener Pathum Nissanka Scored a double ton.
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Records For Nissanka :
This is the first time when a Sri Lankan batsman scored double ton in ODI, before this Sanath Jayasuriya was holding the highest score for Sri Lanka , He has 189. And over all he become the 10th batsman to score double ton in ODI. In his innings he scored 210 off 139 with 20 boundaries and 8 over boundaries.
Sri Lanka Posted A Huge Total :
With his help Sri Lanka posted 381/3 , Avishka Fernando scored 88 off 88 and Samarawickrama scored 45 off 36, Fareed Ahmed got 2 wickets by spending 79. And then in reply Afghanistan lost 5 wickets in just 55. Then veteran Nabi and Young Azmatullah fought hard ,they scored 136(130) and 149*(115) respectively. Afghanistan reached to 339/6 in 50 over. Sri Lanka won by 42 runs.
Player Lists Who Scored 200s In ODI :
Another batsman who scored double ton in ODI are Sachin Tendulkar, Virendar Sehwag, Rohit Sharma, Martin Guptil, Chris Gayle, Fakhar Zaman, Ishan Kishan, Shubman Gill and Glenn Maxwell.
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