Dhaka: India beat Sri Lanka by five wickets in the five-nation Asia Cup Cricket at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Tuesday.

Defending champions Sri Lanka scored a moderate 138 for 9 in stipulated 20 overs against India.

Sent to bat first, the Island nation Sri Lanka faced an early jolt losing 4 wickets for 57 runs in 11 overs.  

Ashish Nehra made the first breakthrough in the Sri Lanka innings removing opener Dinesh Chandimal (4) for six runs in 2.2 overs. He was caught by MS Dhoni behind the wicket.

The batting misery deepened when Bumrah removed one down Jayasuriya (3) at 15 runs for 2 in 3.4 overs.  

Opener TM Dilshan and departed at 31/3 in 6.1 overs scoring 18 runs and captain AD Mathews got out at 57/4 in 11 overs scoring 18 runs.

After the departure of four top order batmen cheaply, number five batsman CK Kapugedera stayed in the crease for sometime and contributed team highest 30 runs off 32 balls featuring three boundaries.

Number six TAM Siriwardana added 17-ball 22 runs with one four and a six, lower order NLTC Perera quick-fired 17 runs off just six ball, hitting two fours and one six. Nowan Kulasekara hit 13 runs facing nine balls with two fours.

R Ashwin, HH Pandya, JJ Bumrah took two wickets each conceding 26, 26, and 27 runs while A Nehra took one wicket for 23 runs.