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    "editor1": "<p><strong>Mirpur,1 March<\/strong>&nbsp;\u0964&nbsp;India produced a strong bowling performance as Sri Lanka posted 138\/9 in their Asia Cup Twenty20 cricket match at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium here on Tuesday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Promising all-rounder Hardik Pandya (2\/26), off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin (2\/26) and young pacer Jasprit Bumrah (2\/27) took two wickets each.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Veteran pacer Ashish Nehra (1\/22), who bowled an excellent opening spell, also got a wicket.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Chamara Kapugedera (30) was the highest scorer among the Sri Lankan batsmen.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Asked to bat first on a greenish pitch, the Lankan batsmen never really managed to settle down and lost wickets at regular intervals.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Sri Lanka suffered an early setback when opener Dinesh Chandimal was caught behind off Nehra&#39;s bowling while attempting a big hit.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Bumrah piled on the pressure in the next over with a superb delivery which Shehan Jayasuriya edged to Mahendra Singh Dhoni behind the stumps.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Dhoni&#39;s decision to bring Pandya into the attack in place of Nehra brought immediate results as the all-rounder got rid of the dangerous Tillakaratne Dilshan with his very first ball.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Angelo Mathews seemed to be in good touch, hitting Pandya for a couple of boundaries. But the right-hander was undone by poor timimg when he got a thick inside edge onto the stumps.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Kapugedera and Milinda Siriwardana (22) tried to bring the innings back on track with a 43-run partnership.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The duo handled the Indian bowling quite well, producing the occassional boundary as the Lankans tried to come back into the game.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>But the partnership came to an end when Siriwardana holed out Suresh Raina at long-on while trying to hit Ashwin out of the ground.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The Lankans plunged into further trouble when Dasun Shanaka was run out off the last ball of the same over.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Thisara Perera (17) and Nuwan Kulasekara (13 not out) then came up with a few bit hits in the closing stages of the innings to take their team to a competitive total.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Agency<\/strong><\/p>\r\n",
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