Related Link : Asia Cup 2004
Venue : R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo (D/N)
Toss : Sri Lanka won the toss, elected to Bat
Umpires : David Shepherd & Billy Bowden
Match Result : Sri Lanka won by 25 runs
Man of the Match : Marvan Atapattu
Man of the Series : Sanath Jayasuriya
Sri Lanka (50 Overs Maximum)
Avishka Gunawardene c Ganguly b Nehra 8 (22) 1 ‘4s’
Sanath Jayasuriya lbw Pathan 15 (20) 2 ‘4s’
Marvan Atapattu (C) run out (Sehwag/Tendulkar) 65 (87) 8 ‘4s’
Kumar Sangakkara (WK) b Sehwag 53 (82) 6 ‘4s’
Mahela Jayawardene c Yuvraj Singh b Tendulkar 0 (6)
Tillakaratne Dilshan st Dravid b Tendulkar 22 (35)
Upul Chandana lbw Harbhajan Singh 8 (13)
Farveez Maharoof run out (Yuvraj Singh) 9 (9) 1 ‘4s’
Chaminda Vaas c Yuvraj Singh b Pathan 6 (16)
Nuwan Zoysa not out 6 (8)
M Muralitharan not out 4 (5)
Extras : 32 (w:11 nb : 3 b : 4 lb : 14)
Total : 228/9 in 50.0 Overs
Fall of Wickets : 1-28 (Jayasuriya, 6.1 ov), 2-31 (Gunawardene, 7.3 ov), 3-147 (Sangakkara, 32.1 ov), 4-150 (Jayawardene, 33.2 ov), 5-174 (Atapattu, 39.1 ov), 6-194 (Dilshan, 43.1 ov), 7-202 (Chandana, 44.3 ov), 8-213 (Maharoof, 46.3 ov), 9-219 (Vaas, 48.2 ov)
India Bowling
Irfan Pathan 7-0-33-2 (1wd)
Ashish Nehra 6-0-22-1 (3wd 1nb)
Zaheer Khan 7-0-35-0 (2nb)
Harbhajan Singh 10-0-48-1 (1wd)
Virender Sehwag 10-2-32-1 (1wd)
Sachin Tendulkar 10-0-40-2
India (Target : 229 from 50.0 Overs)
Virender Sehwag lbw Vaas 5 (12) 1 ‘4s’
Sachin Tendulkar b Dilshan 74 (100) 7 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Sourav Ganguly (C) c Jayawardene b Zoysa 4 (20)
VVS Laxman c Dilshan b Jayasuriya 12 (34) 1 ‘4s’
Rahul Dravid (WK) c Dilshan b Chandana 16 (28)
Yuvraj Singh b Chandana 8 (29)
Mohammad Kaif c Jayawardene b Chandana 5 (15)
Irfan Pathan run out (Vaas/Sangakkara) 2 (4)
Harbhajan Singh st Sangakkara b Jayasuriya 16 (30) 2 ‘4s’
Zaheer Khan not out 28 (24) 1 ‘4s’ 2 ‘6s’
Ashish Nehra not out 8 (6) 1 ‘4s’
Extras : 25 (w:3 nb : 2 b : 8 lb : 12)
Total : 203/9 in 50.0 Overs
Fall of Wickets : 1-15 (Sehwag, 2.5 ov), 2-26 (Ganguly, 7.4 ov), 3-62 (Laxman, 19.4 ov), 4-96 (Dravid, 26.4 ov), 5-119 (Yuvraj Singh, 34.1 ov), 6-135 (Kaif, 38.5 ov), 7-140 (Tendulkar, 39.2 ov), 8-147 (Pathan, 41.6 ov), 9-193 (Harbhajan Singh, 48.3 ov)
Sri Lanka Bowling
Chaminda Vaas 7-1-24-1
Nuwan Zoysa 8-2-18-1 (1wd 1nb)
Farveez Maharoof 2-0-16-0 (1nb)
M Muralitharan 9-0-46-0
Sanath Jayasuriya 10-0-34-0
Upul Chandana 10-0-33-3
Tillakaratne Dilshan 4-0-12-1