Yuvraj Singh took 3-23 and smashed an unbeaten 60 off 25 balls on his 28th birthday as India defeated Sri Lanka by six wickets on Saturday to draw the two-match Twenty20 series 1-1.
India, who lost the first match in Nagpur on Wednesday by 29 runs, chased down Sri Lanka’s challenging 206-7 with five balls to spare at the Punjab Cricket Association.
It was the highest successful chase in the shortest form of the game, surpassing South Africa’s 208-2 against the West Indies in the World Twenty20 in Johannesburg, South Africa, in September 2007.
Virender Sehwag set up the record run spree, 64 off 36 balls with seven boundaries and three sixes, and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni chipped in with a quick-fire 46.
Yuvraj took the game away from the Sri Lankans with five sixes, the last off Angelo Mathews clinching the match for the hosts.
India, set a stiff target of 10.4 runs an over under lights, made a rollicking start when Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir hammered 58 for the first wicket by the sixth over.
Gambhir was run out for 21 attempting a third run, but Dhoni joined Sehwag to add 50 in 30 balls for the second wicket.
Yuvraj plundered 23 runs in the 16th over bowled by seamer Nuwan Kulasekara that included two sixes and two boundaries.
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