India vs Sri Lanka 2nd ODI Awards Winners: Man of the Match, Most Sixes Trophy, Moment of the match, and more

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India vs Sri Lanka 2nd ODI: India lost their first match under the Rohit Sharma-Gautam Gambhir era as Sri Lanka won the second ODI at the R Premadasa Stadium by 32 runs on Sunday, August 4.

The match was the recap of the first ODI but just that the match did not end in a tie this time around. Chasing 241, India were cruising at 97/0 in 13.2 overs, but they were soon reeling at 147/6 in 23.1 overs before eventually getting bundled out for 208 in 42.2.

Rohit Sharma (64 off 44), Shubman Gill (35 off 44) and Axar Patel (44 off 44) were the only three India batters who scored more than 15 runs for their team. Virat Kohli (14), Shivam Dube (0), KL Rahul (0) and Shreyas Iyer (7) were all dismissed by Jeffrey Vandersay (6/33). Rohit and Gill also fell to the 34-year-old wrist spinner.

Earlier in the match, Sri Lanka lower middle-order batters and tail-enders collected 44 runs from the last five balls. They scored 104 runs off the last 15 overs after the hosts were left reeling at 136/6 in 35 overs.

Sri Lanka are now leading the series 1-0 and a win in the third ODI will see them seal the series 2-0. India's streak of 10 consecutive bilateral ODI series wins against Sri Lanka also ended after the spirited show from the hosts. The third and final ODI will be played on Wednesday, August 7.

India vs Sri Lanka 2nd ODI: Full List of Awards Winners

• Most Sixes Award: Rohit Sharma for four sixes - USD 1000
• Moment of the Match Award: Kamindu Mendis for his catch of Shubman Gill - USD1500
• Player of the match: Jeffrey Vandersay for his 6/33 - USD 2000
• Winner of the Match Award: Sri Lanka - USD 2000

India vs Sri Lanka 2nd ODI: Who said what?

Charith Asalanka (Sri Lanka captain): "I was pretty with the score. 240 was good enough. As a captain, these kind of problems (plenty of spin options) I need to have. It was an unbelievable spell by him (Vandersay). They were more than 90 runs when he came in to bowl. I am mainly a batter, I have to score runs. After that I can bowl a few overs."

Jeffrey Vandersay (Man of the Match): "There was a lot of pressure coming into the side. I am coming out of a layoff. I had to something and it is easier to take credit. I want to give credit to the batters as well. They put on 240 runs and that helped me to bowl in good areas. Hasaranga is out No. 1 spinner. I got to understand the atmosphere of the team and team balance. I have to keep pushing myself. There was assistance in the wicket, I was trying to hit the good areas. Once I got my first wicket, that built up my confidence. Fortunately, I was able to take six wickets."

Rohit Sharma (India captain): "When you lose a game, everything hurts. It's not just about those 10 overs. You have to play consistent cricket and we failed to do that today. Little disappointed but these things happen. You got to adapt what's in front of you. With left-right, we felt it'll be easier to rotate strike.

"Credit to Jeffrey, he got six wickets. The reason I got 65 is because of the way I batted. When I am batting like that, there's a lot of risks taken. If you don't cross the line, you always feel disappointed. I don't want to compromise on my intent. We understand nature of this surface, it gets really tough in the middle overs. You have to try to get as many as possible in the powerplay. We weren't good enough. Don't want to look too much into how we played. But there'll be talks about our batting in the middle overs."