new delhi india needed to win big and they did that in style beating bhutan 50 in a group a match of saff championship at the jawaharlal nehru stadium on monday evening sunil chettri and clifford miranda scored a brace each after syed rahim nabi gave them an early lead it was not much of a contest frankly speaking only thing that would have been crossing coach savio medeiras mind ahead of the game was how battleready was his team ahead of the knockout stage the glut of goals made him happy and upped his teams confidencemiranda surely have given medeira some relief with his swagger and fashionable leftfoot it was a blend of the two that resulted in indias third goal rushing in from the left leaving a couple of bhutan defenders in his wake clifford curled in a rightfooter into the far corner of the net it was delightful and the heckles that were raised after the stalemate against afghanistan got buried under mirandas magic show the match well and truly under wraps the dempo winger switched roles and turned provider again motoring down his favoured left flank he picked out the hardworking chhetri with a precision cross chettris thumping volley hit the underside of the bar and went in he didnt celebrateafghanistan scalp sri lankain the first match of the day afghanistan came from behind to beat sri lanka 31 down by a mohamed zain goal in 12th minute sanjar ahmadi scored a brace 24th 35th to bring afghanistan back in the match and then gave them the lead yamir ali completed the scoreline when he headed in haroon fakhrudins corner in the 78th minute afghanistan are now on four points from two matches while lanka stay on three points from two matchestuesdays matches pakistan vs nepal 3pm maldives vs bangladesh 6 pm