Sri Lanka's pole-thin co-operative

Sri Lanka unearthed a skinny quick with serious potential in Dushmantha Chameera last year. In this match, Chameera may have played a role in finding another just like him. The second ball of Kasun Rajitha's career stopped slightly on Rohit Sharma, who spooned the ball just wide of the bowler. Chameera made quick ground moving to his right from mid-off, and dove athletically, both feet off the ground, to secure the catch. That first wicket sent Rajitha into raptures, and he would go on to set the tone for the innings with four more excellent balls in that over.

Rajitha should have had a third wicket when Suresh Raina's outside edge sailed straight to Danushka Gunathilaka at third man. Only, the fielder followed the ball right into his palms, and still managed to spill it. Rajitha couldn't get Raina in the end, but he did take Shikhar Dhawan's outside edge in his next over. This one flew to third man as well, and this time, Gunathilaka moved quickly to complete a much tougher, running catch.

Dasun Shanaka uprooted Raina's leg stump, bounced MS Dhoni out, and trapped Hardik Pandya in front to claim innings-best figures of 3 for 16, but as he admitted later on, bowling isn't even his main gig. He had only two T20 wickets from 26 matches before this performance, and was largely in the side for having struck two manic hundreds in a domestic T20 competition in January. "Most people only know about my batting," he said in a mid-match interview.

Jasprit Bumrah had played four international matches prior to this game, but was yet to face a ball at the top level. R Ashwin thought he had given Bumrah that chance, when he scooped a ball towards fine leg and took a single in the 19th over, but Bumrah had other ideas. Haring back to the non-striker's end for the second run, Bumrah suddenly realised Ashwin wasn't responding. He skidded, then slipped in his efforts to turn back, but before he could lift himself off the ground, Sri Lanka had run him out.