India's Tour of Sri Lanka : 3rd Test at Colombo

India in Sri Lanka 2008 : 3rd Test at Colombo (August 08-12)

Venue : P Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo Toss : India won the toss and elected to bat first Umpires : Rudi Koertzen (SA) and Mark Benson (Eng) Match Result : Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets to win the 3-Test Series 2-1 Man of the Match : Kumar Sangakkara Man of the Series: Ajantha Mendis Articles : Day 1 : Dammika, Ajantha have India in trouble at PSS Day 2 : Sanga's disciplined ton rescues Lanka Day 3 : India on the brink of defeat at PSS Day 4 : Sri Lanka win Series with an 8-wkt win Total : 249 all out Overs : 80.0 India 1st Innings R B 4s 6s Gautam Gambhir lbw b Mendis 72 128 10 0 Virender Sehwag c Prasanna b Dammika Prasad 21 21 4 0 Rahul Dravid lbw b Dammika Prasad 10 29 0 0 Sachin Tendulkar lbw b Dammika Prasad 6 12 0 0 Sourav Ganguly c Mahela Jayawardene b Muralitharan 35 57 4 1 VVS Laxman st Prasanna b Mendis 25 44 1 0 Parthiv Patel (WK) lbw b Mendis 13 42 1 0 Anil Kumble (C) b Mendis 1 6 0 0 Harbhajan Singh c Vandort b Muralitharan 3 8 0 0 Ishant Sharma not out 17 61 0 0 Zaheer Khan st Prasanna b Mendis 32 73 3 1 Wides : 0 No Balls: 5 Byes: 1 Leg Byes: 8 Extras: 14 Fall of Wickets 1-51 (Sehwag, 7.2 ovs), 2-92 (Dravid, 18.3 ovs), 3-102 (Tendulkar, 22.1 ovs), 4-151 (Ganguly, 39.5 ovs), 5-155 (Gambhir, 42.1 ovs), 6-190 (Laxman, 54.3 ovs), 7-195 (Parthiv Patel, 56.1 ovs), 8-196 (Kumble, 56.3 ovs), 9-198 (Harbhajan Singh, 59.4 ovs), 10-249 (Zaheer Khan, 79.6 ovs) Sri Lanka O M R W Wd Nb Vaas 12 1 44 0 0 0 Dammika Prasad 17 0 82 3 0 1 Mendis 28 4 56 5 0 0 Muralitharan 23 3 58 2 0 0 Test Debut for Dammika Prasad (Sri Lanka) Total : 396 all out Overs : 134.2 Sri Lanka 1st Innings R B 4s 6s Michael Vandort lbw b Zaheer Khan 14 50 1 0 Malinda Warnapura b Ishant Sharma 8 22 0 0 Chaminda Vaas c Sehwag b Harbhajan Singh 47 111 9 0 Kumar Sangakkara c Parthiv Patel b Kumble 144 288 14 0 M Jayawardene (C) lbw b Harbhajan Singh 2 6 0 0 Thilan Samaraweera c Parthiv Patel b Zaheer Khan 35 84 3 0 Tillakaratne Dilshan lbw b Kumble 23 45 3 0 P Jayawardene (WK) c Harbhajan Singh b Zaheer Khan 49 116 5 0 Dammika Prasad st Parthiv Patel b Harbhajan Singh 36 56 5 0 Ajantha Mendis lbw b Kumble 17 28 2 0 Muttiah Muralitharan not out 0 1 0 0 Wides : 2 No Balls: 1 Byes: 4 Leg Byes: 14 Extras: 21 Fall of Wickets 1-4 (Vandort, 0.3 ovs), 2-137 (Warnapura, 34.5 ovs), 3-144 (Sangakkara, 36.6 ovs), 4-192 (Samaraweera, 52.3 ovs), 5-192 (Dilshan, 52.6 ovs), 6-250 (Prasanna Jayawardene, 74.2 ovs), 7-255 (Vaas, 75.2 ovs), 8-291 (Mahela Jayawardene, 92.3 ovs), 9-291 (Mendis, 92.5 ovs), 10-292 (Muralitharan, 93.3 ovs) India O M R W Wd Nb Zaheer Khan 32 5 105 3 0 1 Ishant Sharma 15.3 3 33 1 0 0 Harbhajan Singh 40.3 8 104 3 2 0 Kumble 41.2 4 123 3 0 0 Sehwag 2 0 2 0 0 0 Ganguly 3 0 11 0 0 0 Total : 268 all out Overs : 87.5 India 2nd Innings R B 4s 6s Gautam Gambhir b Dammika Prasad 26 43 3 0 Virender Sehwag c Samaraweera b Dammika Prasad 34 29 7 0 Rahul Dravid c Mahela Jayawardene b Mendis 68 166 6 0 Sourav Ganguly lbw b Muralitharan 18 50 1 1 Parthiv Patel (WK) lbw b Mendis 1 2 0 0 Sachin Tendulkar lbw b Mendis 14 22 1 0 VVS Laxman

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