Related Link : Sri Lanka in India 2006/07
Venue : Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground, Rajkot
Toss : India won the toss and elected to field first
Umpires : Suresh Shastri and Simon Taufel
Match Result : Sri Lanka won by 5 runs to lead the 4-ODI Series 1-0 (1 abandoned)
Man of the Match : Kumar Sangakkara
Sri Lanka (50 Overs Maximum)
Upul Tharanga c Tendulkar b Sreesanth 11 (16) 2 ‘4s’
Sanath Jayasuriya c Dhoni b Munaf Patel 9 (10) 1 ‘6s’
Marvan Atapattu lbw b Munaf Patel 15 (24) 2 ‘4s’
Kumar Sangakkara (WK) c Sehwag b Munaf Patel 110 (127) 11 ‘4s’ 4 ‘6s’
Mahela Jayawardene (C) c Dhoni b Sreesanth 4 (10) 1 ‘4s’
Tillakaratne Dilshan b Harbhajan Singh 56 (65) 7 ‘4s’
Russel Arnold lbw b Tendulkar 7 (17)
Farveez Maharoof c Karthik b Munaf Patel 17 (27) 1 ‘6s’
Malinga Bandara not out 3 (3)
Nuwan Kulasekara not out 4 (4)
Lasith Malinga
Extras: 21 (Wides : 4 No Balls: 3 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 14)
Total : 257/8 (Overs : 50.0)
Fall of Wickets : 1-16 (Jayasuriya, 2.3 ovs), 2-31 (Tharanga, 5.5 ovs), 3-53 (Atapattu, 10.4 ovs), 4-58 (Jayawardene, 13.2 ovs), 5-166 (Dilshan, 35.3 ovs), 6-188 (Arnold, 40.3 ovs), 7-249 (Sangakkara, 48.4 ovs), 8-249 (Maharoof, 48.5 ovs)
India Bowling
Munaf Patel 9-0-49-4 (2w 2nb)
Sreesanth 10-1-39-2 (1w 1nb)
Ganguly 2-0-14-0
Harbhajan Singh 10-0-41-1
Kumble 10-1-59-0
Tendulkar 9-0-41-1 (1w)
India (Target : 258 from 50 Overs)
Robin Uthappa c Jayawardene b Maharoof 7 (5) 1 ‘4s’
Sourav Ganguly c Sangakkara b Malinga 62 (79) 6 ‘4s’
Rahul Dravid (C) b Maharoof 5 (9) 1 ‘4s’
Sachin Tendulkar st Sangakkara b Bandara 54 (61) 9 ‘4s’
Virender Sehwag c Sangakkara b Bandara 19 (23) 3 ‘4s’
M.S. Dhoni (WK) c Maharoof b Jayasuriya 48 (68) 1 ‘4s’
Dinesh Karthik lbw b Malinga 31 (49) 1 ‘4s’
Harbhajan Singh c Jayawardene b Maharoof 2 (7)
Anil Kumble run out (Maharoof/Jayasuriya) 2 (5)
Sreesanth not out 0 (1)
Munaf Patel not out 0 (0)
Extras: 22 (Wides : 9 No Balls: 7 Byes: 1 Leg Byes: 5)
Total : 252/9 (Overs : 50.0)
Fall of Wickets : 1-14 (Uthappa, 1.3 ovs), 2-29 (Dravid, 3.2 ovs), 3-129 (Tendulkar, 23.2 ovs), 4-154 (Ganguly, 27.1 ovs), 5-169 (Sehwag, 29.6 ovs), 6-235 (Karthik, 45.4 ovs), 7-241 (Harbhajan Singh, 47.3 ovs), 8-248 (Kumble, 49.1 ovs), 9-252 (Dhoni, 49.5 ovs)
Sri Lanka Bowling
Malinga 10-0-75-2 (4w 5nb)
Maharoof 10-0-42-3 (3w 2nb)
Kulasekara 10-0-48-0 (1w)
Bandara 10-0-36-2 (1w)
Jayasuriya 9-0-38-1
Dilshan 1-0-7-0