Sri Lanka v India final

[COLDHEARTED AVIATOR]

saturday,, 2.30 pm IST

Damn....i was planning to go out tommorow.

It should have been on Sunday..more people could get to watch it.

I hope the results are like Asia cup.

 

[Masterchief]

Ok guys..we have qualified after a huge win over Kiwis..lets discuss about the finals between India and Sri lanka.


I think the batting line up has some problem.Today apart from Sehwag no one clicked.If Sehwag wasnt there we would have lost the match.

I think Dinesh Kartik should be rested coz he doesnt look in good nick.

Bowlers were good but the thing which matters according to me is toss...win the toss and bat first.

i can bat much better than crappy rohit sharma, i am amazed that they are still giving him chances

 

[Roby]

Sri lanka elected to bat

Sri Lanka 43-0 (7.4)

M Jayawardene 13(27) - T Dilshan 22(20)

 

[Gentle Typhoon]

Tillakaratne Dilshan (Known as Tuwan Mohammad Dilshan prior to his conversion from Islam to Buddhism) scored 100.

India in trouble. (

 

[Desi Sher]

YAyayayayaya, India gonna Loose the Micromax Cup..... Anyways There is a partnership going between Kohli and Yuvraj, But There is hardly any Chance to win, Unless Dhoni Promotes Himself up the order and Gives India a Helping hand and Keep that extra Boost which we have....

 

[Markus]

With Sehwag gone, the match is so boring now.

 

[COLDHEARTED AVIATOR]

Yaa...India in trouble...last hope is Dhoni and Raina.

 

[COLDHEARTED AVIATOR]

Anyone watching the match now?..gaya yeh match toh!!

 

[WAQAS119]

Charged-up Sri Lanka take title

Sri Lanka 299 for 8 (Dilshan 110, Sangakkara 71, Munaf 2-43) beat India 225 (Dhoni 67, Perera 3-36, Randiv 3-40) by 74 runs


These two have binged on each other since July 2008, but what promises to be the one for the road went Sri Lanka's way, ending a run of losses in big home matches for Sri Lanka. On the best batting track of the tournament, still not quite a flat belter, Tillakaratne Dilshan's risk-free yet urgent century, and Kumar Sangakkara's delightful half-century, set a target never achieved under Dambulla lights. When Virender Sehwag left the rest of the side - 288 runs between them before the start of the final - with 262 to get, it was all but over. The flame flickered for longer than expected, but not nearly long enough.

Umpiring decisions and manic appealing dominated the chase, but couldn't alter the expected result. Dinesh Karthik was given out caught off the thigh pad. Virender Sehwag's plumb lbw was not given, but he ran himself out off the same ball. Yuvraj Singh got away with a caught-behind before having scored a run, but was given out off one he didn't seem to have edged - 26 runs later. MS Dhoni survived a close lbw call when on 12, but ran out of partners as the required run-rate mounted.

The start of the match was much more serene. In fact, off the fourth ball of the game, Praveen Kumar hardly appealed when he had Mahela Jayawardene caught right in front. Jayawardene, promoted because of his technical prowess, put together the best opening stand of the tournament - 121, an association that set up the highest team total too. The way Dilshan and Jayawardene batted without taking any undue risks, it was easy to see why the previous best of 79 too belonged to them. The ball may not have swung wildly, but the batsmen were tested by the early movement that Praveen and Munaf Patel extracted.

Neither batsman tried expansive shots. In his first three overs, Praveen went too far down the leg side, looking for that magic outswinger, and went for fours through midwicket and fine leg. It wasn't that easy to hit Munaf off his shortish length around off and slight seam movement either side. They didn't try to do that. They played out Munaf's first four overs for 13, yet the score at the end of those overs read 47 for 0.

Dilshan targeted Ashish Nehra and Ishant Sharma. Nehra's second ball and Ishant's first were punched away for fours. Both the shots were hit along the ground, and involved more enterprise than risk. By the time Ishant's second over was hit for six, four and four, Dilshan had moved to 43 off 30, and Sri Lanka 74 after 12 overs.

Dilshan had assumed total control by then. The punch shot through the off side, with his front foot out of the way, caused the main damage. One of those, off Nehra, brought up Dilshan's fifty in the 16th over. Nehra's figures then read 4-0-31-0.

Forget the fifth bowler, Dhoni must have started worrying about how to finish the quotas of specialist bowlers, all quicks. Dilshan's pace didn't make the task any easier. When he neared his century, though, Dilshan spent 38 balls between his 12th and 13th boundaries. Excepting that period, the longest he went without a four was 16 balls.

During that quiet period Sri Lanka lost Jayawardene and Upul Tharanga against the run of play, but Kumar Sangakkara made sure Sri Lanka didn't fall behind. In the time that Dilshan went from 92 to 100, Sangakkara hared from 11 to 32, taking Sri Lanka to 194 in the 37th over. Dilshan then threatened to open up another can of punishment for India, but holed out to long leg.

Sangakkara's can had contents left, and even with wickets falling at the other end, elegant drives followed elegant drives. The superb acceleration - from 19 off 29 to 70 off 59 - was interrupted by a Munaf slower ball in the 45th over, but Sri Lanka had reached 261 for 6. Munaf's last three overs went for 14 runs and two wickets, but a target of 300 meant India would need more than just Sehwag.

Sehwag hit six scorching boundaries in the first six overs. Off the last ball of the sixth over, though, Nuwan Kulasekara had him plumb in front, but umpire Asoka de Silva seemed the only one to disagree. Sehwag, however, got greedy and sought a leg-bye that didn't exist. Chamara Kapugedera was not only alert, he also hit direct.

Thisara Perera, by now Sri Lanka's India specialist, and Suraj Randiv, who got nice drift and dip, kept the wicket flow going in the middle.

Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina and Dhoni tried to buck the trend of Sehwag-over-game-over, but Sri Lanka were at them all the time. Kohli's uncharacteristic hoick showed the pressure the required rate exerted, Raina's cameo involved too many risks and ended prematurely from India's point of view, and Dhoni's 67 were too late and too few.

 

[S_O_C_O_M]

Dilshan shines as Sri Lanka beat India in final​

One-day tri-series, Dambulla:
Sri Lanka 299-8 (50 ovs) beat India 225 (46.5 ovs) by 74 runs

Dilshan hit his eighth one-day century in 188 matches

A Tillakaratne Dilshan century inspired Sri Lanka to a resounding 74-run over India in the Triangular Series final.

The opener hit 110, sharing an 85-run stand with Kumar Sangakkara (71) as the hosts finished on 299-8 in Dambulla.

India's chase faltered when Virender Sehwag (28) was run out while captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (67) was last man out as India subsided to 225 all out.

Thissara Perera (3-36) and Suraj Randiv (3-40) impressed while Lasith Malinga picked up two wickets.

Perera was the architect of Sri Lanka's comprehensive eight-wicket win against India after returning figures of 5-28 last Sunday.

And the seamer once again played a significant role in the tourists' downfall, taking the crucial wickets of Virat Kohli (37) Yuvraj Singh (26) just as both batsmen were finding their stride in the run chase.

"Thisara Perera lengthens our batting, but his bowling has been very impressive in the last couple of games," said Sangakkara.

"The discipline in line and length has been the key for us."

On the best batting surface of the tournament at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Sri Lanka captain Sangakkara won the toss and elected to bat.

And he was rewarded by a solid 121-run opening partnership between Dilshan and Mahela Jayawardene, with the former taking control of proceedings with his distinctive style of strokeplay.

Former captain Jayawardene, who became the third Sri Lankan after Sanath Jayasuriya and Aravinda de Silva to register 9,000 one-day international runs, fell for 39, quickly followed by Upal Tharanga in the 20th over.

But Sangakkara steadied the innings, building a solid platform alongside Dilshan as India's four-pronged seam attack faltered.

Dilshan struck 12 boundaries and a six in his entertaining 115-ball innings, with the six lifted over mid-on off Ishant.

However, his tenure was brought to an end in the 40th over when he was caught by Ishant off Praveen Kumar.

Chamara Silva (26 not out) pushed Sri Lanka to the brink of the 300-run mark, while Munaf Patel and Ishant each collected two wickets.

India's riposte began in the worst possible fashion when opener Dinesh Karthik was caught behind off the final ball of the first over from Malinga.

And their hopes of victory faded when Sehwag - the tournament's top run-scorer - was run out attempting to sneak an impossible leg bye as Sri Lanka appealed for lbw.

The dismissals of Kohli and Yuvraj, along with Suresh Raina (29), left captain Dhoni exposed with the tail after Rohit Sharma's dismissal in the 35th over.

And Dhoni was the last man to fall as he attempted a smash spinner Randiv, but only succeeded in dragging the ball onto his stumps.

"We just didn't spend enough time in the middle," said Dhoni.

"Credit goes to Sri Lanka as they batted and bowled well. Our bowlers gave them a bit of width and that's one thing you don't want to give Dilshan - he smashed us all around the park."

BBC Sport - Cricket - Dilshan shines as Sri Lanka beat India in final

 

[NoEscape]

Dilshan is a good attacking batsman. Sri Lanka played great on that day, India outplayed.

Wake up, Man. Match was on some days ago.

 

[karan.1970]

^ Yeah! I was wondering if I missed a match yesterday or something.

C'mon SOCOM.. There are other anti India articles in News that are more current than a few days old cricket match