India has won the Asia Cup cricket title. This is India's 8th Asia Cup title. India won the title by defeating the home team Sri Lanka by 10 wickets in the final. India achieved the modest target of 51 runs for victory in Colombo without losing any wicket.

Ishan Kishan scored 23 runs and Shubman Gill scored 27 runs for India to win. Both of them remained not out.

Earlier in Colombo, Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat first. India's Mohammad Siraj alone took 6 wickets, Hardik Pandya bagged 3 while Jasprit Bumrah picked up a wicket.

Siraj took 6 wickets by conceeding 21 runs with 1 maiden from 7 overs. Hardik took 3 wickets giving away just 3 runs in 2.2 overs. Bumrah conceeded 23 runs and picked up a wicket with 1 maiden from 5 overs.

Kushal Mendis scored the highest 17 runs for Sri Lanka while Dushan Hemantha remained unbeaten on 13 runs.

In the very first over, Jasprit Bumrah dismissed Kusal Perera and gave India a good start. Then Siraj took four wickets in the fourth over of the match with brilliant bowling.

Siraj dismissed Pathum Nisanka in the first ball, Sadira Samarawickrama in the third ball, Charitha Aslanka in the fourth ball and Dhananjay Da Silva in the sixth ball. In that over, Dhananjay hit Siraj for a boundary.

In the sixth over of the match, Siraj bowled the Sri Lankan captain Dasun Sanaka and took the first five wickets in the ODI match in his career. By then, Sri Lanka had already lost 6 wickets after scoring 12 runs.

In the 12th over, Siraj bowled Mendis. Then Hardik Pandya took three consecutive wickets. Young player Dunith Velalez, who performed all-round against India in the Super Four, was caught out by wicketkeeper KL Rahul.

Hardik then dismissed Pramod Madhusan and Mathisha Pathirana in the first and second balls of the 16th over.

Earlier in the Super Four stage, India had defeated Sri Lanka by 41 runs.