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Match Date : March 23, 2007
Venue : Queen’s Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad
Toss : India won the toss and elected to field first
Umpires : Aleem Dar (Pak) and Daryl Harper (Aus)
Match Result : Sri Lanka won by 69 runs
Man of the Match : Muttiah Muralitharan
Match Report : India chicken out in the do-or-die against Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (50 Overs Maximum)
Upul Tharanga lbw b Tendulkar 64 (90) 6 ‘4s’
Sanath Jayasuriya c Agarkar b Zaheer Khan 6 (23)
Mahela Jayawardene (C) c Dhoni b Agarkar 7 (20) 1 ‘4s’
Kumar Sangakkara (WK) c Munaf Patel b Ganguly 15 (35) 2 ‘4s’
Chamara Silva c Dhoni b Zaheer Khan 59 (68) 5 ‘4s’
Tillakaratne Dilshan c Dhoni b Munaf Patel 38 (41) 3 ‘4s’
Russel Arnold not out 19 (13) 3 ‘4s’
Chaminda Vaas not out 19 (12) 2 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Muttiah Muralitharan
Lasith Malinga
Dilhara Fernando
Extras : 27 (Wides : 14 No Balls: 2 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 11)
Total : 254/6 (Overs : 50.0)
Fall of Wickets : 1-33 (Jayasuriya, 6.6 ovs), 2-53 (Jayawardene, 12.4 ovs), 3-92 (Sangakkara, 23.3 ovs), 4-133 (Tharanga, 32.2 ovs), 5-216 (Dilshan, 45.4 ovs), 6-216 (Silva, 46.1 ovs)
India Bowling
Zaheer Khan 10-0-49-2 (5wd 1nb)
Agarkar 8-1-33-1 (3wd)
Munaf Patel 10-1-46-1
Harbhajan Singh 10-0-53-0 (3wd)
Ganguly 4-0-22-1 (1wd)
Tendulkar 8-0-40-1 (2wd 1nb)
India (Target : 255 from 50 Overs)
Robin Uthappa c&b Vaas 18 (27) 3 ‘4s’
Sourav Ganguly c Muralitharan b Vaas 7 (23)
Virender Sehwag c Jayawardene b Muralitharan 48 (46) 5 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Sachin Tendulkar b Fernando 0 (3)
Rahul Dravid (C) c Muralitharan b Jayasuriya 60 (82) 6 ‘4s’
Yuvraj Singh run out (Arnold/Jayasuriya) 6 (12)
M.S. Dhoni (WK) lbw b Muralitharan 0 (1)
Ajit Agarkar c Arnold b Malinga 10 (25)
Harbhajan Singh not out 17 (20) 1 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Zaheer Khan c Malinga b Muralitharan 1 (5)
Munaf Patel c Vaas b Dilshan 10 (17) 1 ‘4s’
Extras : 8 (Wides : 7 No Balls: 0 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 1)
Total : 185 all out (Overs : 43.3)
Fall of Wickets : 1-25 (Uthappa, 6.5 ovs), 2-43 (Ganguly, 10.5 ovs), 3-44 (Tendulkar, 11.3 ovs), 4-98 (Sehwag, 22.5 ovs), 5-112 (Yuvraj Singh, 27.4 ovs), 6-112 (Dhoni, 28.1 ovs), 7-136 (Agarkar, 34.4 ovs), 8-159 (Dravid, 37.3 ovs), 9-161 (Zaheer Khan, 38.6 ovs), 10-185 (Munaf Patel, 43.3 ovs)
Sri Lanka Bowling
Vaas 8-1-39-2
Malinga 8-0-39-1 (1wd)
Fernando 6.2-0-32-1 (2wd)
Muralitharan 10-0-41-3 (4wd)
Jayasuriya 9-0-31-1
Dilshan 2.1-1-2-1