Related Link : India in Sri Lanka 2008
Venue : R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo (day/night)
Toss : India won the toss and elected to bat first
Umpires : Tyron Wijewardene (SL) and Billy Doctrove (WI)
Match Result : India won by 33 runs to lead the 5-ODI Series 2-1
Man of the Match : MS Dhoni
India (50 Overs Maximum)
Virat Kohli run out (Silva) 25 (38) 4 ‘4s’
Gautam Gambhir lbw b Kulasekara 8 (20)
Yuvraj Singh c Jayawardene b Kulasekara 12 (17) 1 ‘6s’
Suresh Raina run out (Dilshan/Sangakkara) 53 (80) 4 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
S Badrinath c Vaas b Mendis 6 (19)
MS Dhoni (C&WK) c Jayawardene b Mendis 76 (80) 8 ‘4s’
Rohit Sharma c Kapugedera b Thushara 32 (32) 3 ‘4s’
Harbhajan Singh c Sangakkara b Mendis 2 (6)
Zaheer Khan not out 2 (3)
Praveen Kumar c Muralitharan b Thushara 1 (6)
Munaf Patel
Extras: 20 (Wides : 11 No Balls: 1 Byes: 2 Leg Byes: 6)
Total : 237/9 (Overs : 50.0)
Fall of Wickets : 1-39 (Kohli, 8.5 ovs), 2-40 (Gambhir, 9.4 ovs), 3-62 (Yuvraj Singh, 13.6 ovs), 4-91 (Badrinath, 22.5 ovs), 5-145 (Raina, 34.5 ovs), 6-212 (Rohit Sharma, 45.5 ovs), 7-229 (Harbhajan Singh, 48.2 ovs), 8-229 (Dhoni, 48.3 ovs), 9-237 (Zaheer Khan, 49.6 ovs)
Sri Lanka Bowling
Vaas 10-2-33-0 (2w)
Kulasekara 7-1-32-2 (2w)
Thushara 9-1-36-2 (5w)
Mendis 10-0-56-3 (1w 1nb)
Muralitharan 9-0-48-0
Jayasuriya 5-0-24-0
Sri Lanka (Target : 238 from 50 Overs)
Sanath Jayasuriya c Dhoni b Praveen Kumar 13 (15) 3 ‘4s’
Kumar Sangakkara (WK) lbw b Zaheer Khan 9 (12) 2 ‘4s’
Chamara Kapugedera lbw b Praveen Kumar 12 (17) 1 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Mahela Jayawardene (C) c Praveen Kumar b Munaf Patel 94 (111) 6 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Chamara Silva lbw b Zaheer Khan 1 (5)
Tillakaratne Dilshan c Dhoni b Munaf Patel 16 (21) 3 ‘4s’
Chaminda Vaas b Harbhajan Singh 0 (4)
Nuwan Kulasekara lbw b Yuvraj Singh 11 (30)
Thilan Thushara b Zaheer Khan 30 (55) 2 ‘4s’
Ajantha Mendis not out 6 (10)
Muttiah Muralitharan b Munaf Patel 6 (14)
Extras: 6 (Wides : 4 No Balls: 0 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 2)
Total : 204 all out (Overs : 49.0)
Fall of Wickets : 1-18 (Jayasuriya, 4.1 ovs), 2-26 (Sangakkara, 5.2 ovs), 3-37 (Kapugedera, 8.4 ovs), 4-40 (Silva, 9.4 ovs), 5-58 (Dilshan, 16.3 ovs), 6-59 (Vaas, 17.2 ovs), 7-94 (Kulasekara, 26.5 ovs), 8-175 (Thushara, 43.5 ovs), 9-192 (Jayawardene, 45.4 ovs), 10-204 (Muralitharan, 48.6 ovs)
India Bowling
Praveen Kumar 10-0-62-2 (2w)
Zaheer Khan 10-3-23-3 (1w)
Munaf Patel 10-1-42-3
Harbhajan Singh 10-0-29-1
Yuvraj Singh 8-0-37-1 (1w)
Rohit Sharma 1-0-9-0