IND vs SL 2nd T20I: Sri Lanka beat depleted India by 4 wickets to level series

With this win, Sri Lanka has levelled the three-match series at 1-1. The final game will be played on Thursday (July 29).

Dhananjaya de Silva's unbeaten knock of 40 runs followed by Chamika Karunaratne's cameo of 12 runs helped Sri Lanka defeat depleted India by four wickets in the second T20I of the three-match series in Colombo at the R Premadasa Stadium on Wednesday (July 28). With this win, Sri Lanka has levelled the three-match series at 1-1. The final game will be played on Thursday (July 29). Chasing 133, Sri Lanka got off to a bad start as Avishka Fernando (11) was sent back to the pavilion by Bhuvneshwar Kumar in the second over of the innings. Sadeera Samarawickrama scored 8 runs from 12 balls and his struggle finally ended in the 7th over as Varun Chakravarthy clean bowled him, reducing Sri Lanka to 39/2. Skipper Dasun Shanaka (3) failed to leave a mark as he was stumped by Sanju Samson of the bowling of Kuldeep Yadav and Sri Lanka were reduced to 55/3, still needing 78 runs more for the win from 65 balls. The set batsman Minod Bhanuka (36) was also dismissed by Kuldeep and Sri Lanka was put on the back foot at 66/4.