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Match Date : April 24, 2007
Venue : Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica
Toss : Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat first
Umpires : Rudi Koertzen (SA) and Simon Taufel (Aus)
Match Result : Sri Lanka won by 81 runs to enter into the Final
Man of the Match : Mahela Jayawardene
Match Report : Mahela carries Sri Lanka into the Final with a century!
Sri Lanka (50 Overs Maximum)
Upul Tharanga b Vettori 73 (74) 9 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Sanath Jayasuriya b Franklin 1 (6)
Kumar Sangakkara (WK) c Fleming b Franklin 18 (42) 2 ‘4s’
Mahela Jayawardene (C) not out 115 (109) 10 ‘4s’ 3 ‘6s’
Chamara Silva lbw b Bond 21 (33) 1 ‘6s’
Tillakaratne Dilshan lbw b Oram 30 (27) 3 ‘4s’
Russel Arnold not out 14 (14) 2 ‘4s’
Chaminda Vaas
Lasith Malinga
Muttiah Muralitharan
Dilhara Fernando
Extras : 17 (Wides : 9 No Balls: 5 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 3)
Total : 289/5 (Overs : 50.0)
Fall of Wickets : 1-13 (Jayasuriya, 2.3 ovs), 2-67 (Sangakkara, 13.1 ovs), 3-111 (Tharanga, 25.1 ovs), 4-152 (Silva, 34.3 ovs), 5-233 (Dilshan, 45.1 ovs)
New Zealand Bowling
Franklin 9-1-46-2 (2wd 2nb)
Bond 10-1-59-1 (3wd 1nb)
Oram 10-0-60-1 (1wd 2nb)
Vettori 10-0-51-1 (1wd)
Jeetan Patel 10-0-62-0
Styris 1-0-8-0 (1wd)
New Zealand (Target : 290 from 50 Overs)
Peter Fulton c Silva b Jayasuriya 46 (77) 2 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Stephen Fleming (C) lbw b Malinga 1 (4)
Ross Taylor lbw b Vaas 9 (25) 1 ‘4s’
Scott Styris c Jayawardene b Dilshan 37 (38) 2 ‘4s’ 3 ‘6s’
Jacob Oram c&b Muralitharan 3 (7)
Brendon McCullum (WK) c Silva b Muralitharan 0 (1)
Craig McMillan b Jayasuriya 25 (20) 1 ‘4s’ 2 ‘6s’
Daniel Vettori lbw b Muralitharan 0 (4)
James Franklin not out 30 (38) 2 ‘4s’
Shane Bond b Muralitharan 2 (4)
Jeetan Patel c Fernando b Dilshan 34 (38) 2 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Extras : 21 (Wides : 8 No Balls: 6 Byes: 5 Leg Byes: 2)
Total : 208 all out (Overs : 41.4)
Fall of Wickets : 1-2 (Fleming, 1.3 ovs), 2-32 (Taylor, 10.3 ovs), 3-105 (Styris, 21.5 ovs), 4-114 (Oram, 23.5 ovs), 5-114 (McCullum, 23.6 ovs), 6-115 (Fulton, 24.3 ovs), 7-116 (Vettori, 25.4 ovs), 8-144 (McMillan, 30.2 ovs), 9-149 (Bond, 31.4 ovs), 10-208 (Patel, 41.4 ovs)
Sri Lanka Bowling
Vaas 8-1-25-1 (1wd)
Malinga 7-2-21-1 (1nb)
Fernando 5-0-45-0 (1wd 5nb)
Muralitharan 8-0-31-4 (1wd)
Jayasuriya 9-0-57-2 (3wd)
Dilshan 4.4-0-22-2 (1wd)