Related Link : Asia Cup 2008
Venue : National Stadium, Karachi (Day/Night)
Toss : Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat first
Umpires : Brian Jerling (SA) and Simon Taufel (Aus)
Match Result : India won by 6 wickets
Man of the Match : Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Sri Lanka (50 Overs Maximum)
Sanath Jayasuriya c Dhoni b Ishant Sharma 43 (37) 8 ‘4s’
Kumar Sangakkara (WK) c Dhoni b Ishant Sharma 7 (10) 1 ‘4s’
Mahela Jayawardene (C) c Gambhir b Ojha 50 (63) 4 ‘4s’
Chamara Kapugedera lbw b Praveen Kumar 75 (78) 7 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Chamara Silva run out (RP Singh/Dhoni) 50 (56) 2 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Tillakaratne Dilshan c RP Singh b Irfan Pathan 15 (19) 2 ‘4s’
Kaushalya Weeraratne c Gambhir b RP Singh 23 (18) 3 ‘4s’
Thilan Thushara run out (Gambhir/Dhoni) 23 (14) 2 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Nuwan Kulasekara not out 6 (4) 1 ‘4s’
Muttiah Muralitharan not out 1 (1)
Dilhara Fernando
Extras: 15 (Wides : 3 No Balls: 0 Byes: 1 Leg Byes: 11)
Total : 308/8 (Overs : 50.0)
Fall of Wickets 1-16 (Sangakkara, 3.5 ovs), 2-71 (Jayasuriya, 11.4 ovs), 3-149 (Jayawardene, 26.3 ovs), 4-217 (Kapugedera, 37.3 ovs), 5-245 (Dilshan, 42.3 ovs), 6-263 (Silva, 45.1 ovs), 7-287 (Weeraratne, 48.1 ovs), 8-307 (Thushara, 49.5 ovs)
India Bowling
RP Singh 10-1-44-1
Ishant Sharma 10-0-55-2 (1wd)
Irfan Pathan 10-0-80-1
Praveen Kumar 6-0-36-1 (1wd)
Pragyan Ojha 10-0-55-1
Virender Sehwag 3-0-22-0 (1wd)
Rohit Sharma 1-0-4-0
India (Target : 309 from 50 Overs)
Gautam Gambhir lbw b Muralitharan 68 (62) 11 ‘4s’
Virender Sehwag c Fernando b Kulasekara 42 (33) 6 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Suresh Raina run out (Jayasuriya/Sangakkara) 54 (66) 3 ‘4s’
MS Dhoni (C&WK) b Muralitharan 67 (62) 5 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Yuvraj Singh not out 36 (31) 3 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Rohit Sharma not out 22 (28) 2 ‘4s’
Irfan Pathan
Praveen Kumar
Pragyan Ojha
RP Singh
Ishant Sharma
Extras: 21 (Wides : 9 No Balls: 1 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 11)
Total : 310/4 (Overs : 46.5)
Fall of Wickets: 1-92 (Sehwag, 11.4 ovs), 2-135 (Gambhir, 20.2 ovs), 3-234 (Raina, 35.4 ovs), 4-253 (Dhoni, 37.6 ovs)
Sri Lanka Bowling
Fernando 9-0-52-0 (1wd 1nb)
Kulasekara 9.5-0-71-1 (3wd)
Thushara 8-0-67-0 (2wd)
Muralitharan 10-0-44-2
Weeraratne 5-0-36-0
Jayasuriya 3-0-19-0 (1wd)
Dilshan 2-0-10-0