India vs Sri Lanka 2017: 3rd ODI, 5 things we learnt from the match

#5 Upul Tharanga blazes away

Tharanga was at his beastly best

Upul Tharanga has endured a torrid time of late in Tests but that did not deter him from sticking to his natural ways in ODIs and the opener blazed away to a terrific start. He took on Bumrah and Bhuvneshwar Kumar with conviction before slamming Hardik Pandya for five fours in succession to edge closer to a half-century.

Even as the spinners started bowling in tandem, Tharanga appeared least perturbed and rocked back to cut or stood steady to smash them over their heads. He reached a 1000 runs in ODIs in 2017 during this knock and was the most comfortable of Lankan batsmen against Chahal and Kuldeep. However, he fell to a lightning bit of stumping work by MS Dhoni when on 95.