The Finals of the Asia Cup 2023 between India and Sri Lanka tops the list of Biggest ODI wins for India with 263 balls remaining in their innings.
Biggest ODI wins for India with balls remaining
India was scheduled to play the finals of the Asia Cup 2023 against Sri Lanka on September 17, at R. Premadasa Stadium, where India won by 10 wickets.
Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat where they struggled to score runs against Indian aggressive bowlers and ended up scoring only 50 runs losing all the wickets. With a fifty-one-run partnership scored by Indian openers, the side easily won the game. Mohammed Siraj was awarded with the player of the match while Kuldeep Yadav is awarded with the player of the series.
With this victory, India recorded its biggest ODI win as they completed their innings with 263 balls remaining. These stats also top the list of Biggest Wins in ODI finals.
Biggest wins in an ODI final (balls remaining)
- 263 Ind vs SL Colombo RPS 2023 *
- 226 Aus vs Eng Sydney 2003
- 179 Aus vs Pak Lord’s 1999
Pathum Nissanka and Kusal Perera opened the innings for Sri Lanka while Jasprit Bumrah opened the bowling attack. Pathum Nissanka was dismissed with 2 runs by Bumrah where Kusal Perera and Kusal Mendis was sent out with a duck and 17 runs by Siraj. After the fall of Dhananjaya de Silva for four runs Sri Lanka was down to five wickets scoring only 12 runs on the fourth over.
Other batters struggled against the terrific bowling attack of India, where Mohammed Siraj dismissed 6 batters while Hardik Pandya scalped three wickets. After losing all 10 wickets Sri Lanka scored only 50 runs in the second ball of the 16th over.
After folding Sri Lanka for low scores, Ishan Kishan and Shubman Gill opened the innings while Pramod Madushan opened the bowling attack. Ishan Kishan scored 23 runs from 18 deliveries including 3 boundaries while Shubman Gill scored 27 runs on 19 deliveries which includes 6 boundaries. On the first ball of the 7th over, India achieved the target of 51 runs and won the game with 10 wickets.
India will be playing a three-ODI match series against Australia before the World Cup Warmup games. The first ODI match was scheduled to be played on September 22 at Punjab National Association Stadium.
Biggest ODI wins for India (balls remaining)
- 263 vs SL Colombo RPS 2023 *
- 231 vs ken Bloemfontein 2001
- 211 vs WI Trivandrum 2018
- 188 vs Eng The Oval 2022
