Watch: Sri Lanka's Jeffrey Vandarsay and Ashen Bandara collide with each other during 3rd ODI against India, stretchered off the field

Team India is looking in a very commanding position in the third and last of the three-match ODI series against Sri Lanka. Riding on the brilliant centuries from Shubman Gill and former skipper Virat Kohli, the men in blue managed to post a big total of 390 runs for the loss of five wickets in the allotted 50 overs.

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It was not a day for the Sri Lankan team that they would’ve expected but two of their players Jeffrey Vandarsay and Ashen Bandara injured themselves during an on-field collision with each other.

The incident happened on the fifth ball of the 43^rd over of the Indian innings when Virat Kohli was batting on an individual score of 95 runs. The veteran Indian batter played a pull shot off the short ball from Chamika Karunaratne. Vandarsay started running left to him from the region of the deep backward square leg whereas Bandara was running right to him from the region of the deep midwicket.

Bandara happened to end up in a slide on his right leg in an attempt to stop the ball, but unfortunately, he ended up landing beneath his teammate Vandarsay. Eventually, the duo couldn’t stop the ball and Kohli got a boundary to reach the score of 99.

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Both the Sri Lankan players were taken off the field on stretchers. Meanwhile, the video of this incident has gone viral over social media within minutes of being shared by a Twitter user.

Here’s the video:

Hope they are fine .#INDvSL #SLvsIND pic.twitter.com/88rmudNMNJ

— Mr द्विवेदी 🔥 (@Dwivedi1311) January 15, 2023

Speaking of the match, Sri Lankans now require 391 runs off 50 overs to end the series on a winning note. Notably, the men in blue have already taken an unassailable lead of 2-0 in the series with two straight wins in the Guwahati and Kolkata ODI. Now, they will be eyeing to clinch the series on a clean sweep mode with a win in the ongoing Thiruvananthapuram ODI.