Tag INDinSL2012

Match : India v Sri Lanka, 3rd of 5 ODI series on India's tour of Sri Lanka 2012.
Venue/Date : RPS ground in Colombo, 28 July 2012.
Debut : none.
Toss : Sri Lanka, elected to bat.
Result : India won by 5 wickets and now leads series 2-1 with 2 games to go, having won 1st ODI by 21 runs while Sri Lanka won 2nd ODI by 9 wickets.
Man of the match : Suresh Raina.
Umpires : Tony Hill (New Zealand) + Rob Tucker (England).

Head to head

137th India v Sri Lanka one day international it was and now, India have won 73 while Sri Lanka stay behind at 52 with 1 tie and 11 no results. In Sri Lanka, two teams clashed for the 54th time and visitors registered their 21st win besides losing 27 and 6 no results. At the venue, RPS ground in Colombo, this was 30th meeting and India found 12th win while losing 15 with 3 no results.

Match summary

Even though cricket has changed in recent times with the emergence of T20 cricket, chasing almost run a ball target for fifty overs is still a tough assignment. Today, set against 287 after terrible bowling performance, Indians lost Virender Sehwag early but Gautam Gambhir, following on his good innings in last match, put together the foundation with in-form Virat Kohli. MS Dhoni, noticing poor form of young Rohit Sharma, promoted himself but his slowish innings pushed the asking rate around 8 an over and then Lasith Malinga ate up both Gambhir and Dhoni in first over of the batting powerplay to turn the match around. Thankfully, Suresh Raina and Irfan Pathan steered visitors home through some inspired batting display.

Earlier, Sri Lankans got lucky with the toss and decided to put runs on board but not untill first three batsmen had returned to pavilion that their innings got going. Experienced pros Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene added 121 runs. both missed their century but late counter attack from Angelo Mathews and Jeevan Mendis pushed home team to a solid total.

This was first defeat for Sri Lanka at the venue having scored more than 250 runs. Also, this was biggest chase by any team on Sri Lankan soil.

Sri Lanka innings (elected to bat)
Batsman		R	B	4s	6s
Upul Tharanga	c Dhoni b Zaheer	8	20	1	0
Tillakaratne Dilshan	b Zaheer	4	7	0	0
Kumar Sangakkara	c Kohli b Dinda	73	95	5	0
Dinesh Chandimal	lbw b Pathan	0	3	0	0
M Jayawardene	lbw b Rahul Sharma	65	79	5	0
Angelo Mathews	not out	71	57	5	1
Jeevan Mendis	not out	45	40	3	1
Thisara Perera
Rangana Herath
Lasith Malinga
Isuru Udana
Extra :	20 (byes=2, lbyes=8, wides=9, noball=1)
Total :	286 runs in 50 overs for 5 wicket. RR = ( 5.72 ).
Fall of wickets : 1-9 (Dilshan, 2.3 ov), 2-19 (Tharanga, 4.5 ov), 3-20 (Chandimal, 5.3 ov), 4-141 (Jayawardene, 29.2 ov), 5-182 (Sangakkara, 37.6 ov)

Bowler	Overs	Maiden	Runs	W	Extra
Zaheer Khan	10	0	39	2	3 wides
Irfan Pathan	10	0	59	1	1nb, 3wd
Ashok Dinda	10	0	76	1	1 wide
Rahul Sharma	8	0	45	1	1 wide
R Ashwin	10	0	50	0	1 wide
Virender Sehwag	1	0	3	0
Rohit Sharma	1	0	4	0

India innings (target = 287 runs from 50 overs)
Batsman		R	B	4s	6s
Gautam Gambhir	run out (Udana)	102	101	10	0
Virender Sehwag	c Senanayake (sub) b Perera	3	6	0	0
Virat Kohli	c & b Herath	38	65	2	0
MS Dhoni	b Malinga	31	49	1	0
Rohit Sharma	lbw b Malinga	0	1	0	0
Suresh Raina	not out	65	45	6	1
Irfan Pathan	not out	34	31	3	0
R Ashwin
Zaheer Khan
Rahul Sharma
Ashok Dinda
Extra :	15 (lbyes=11, wides=4)
Total :	288 runs in 49.4 overs for 5 wicket. RR = ( 5.83 ).
Fall of wickets : 1-8 (Sehwag, 1.4 ov), 2-113 (Kohli, 20.5 ov), 3-180 (Dhoni, 35.1 ov), 4-180 (RG Sharma, 35.2 ov), 5-196 (Gambhir, 38.3 ov)

Bowler	Overs	Maiden	Runs	W	Extra
Lasith Malinga	10	0	60	2
Thisara Perera	9	0	57	1
Isuru Udana	6	0	42	0	4 wides
Angelo Mathews	8.4	0	49	0
Rangna Herath	9	0	36	1
Tillakaratne Dilshan	3	0	14	0
Jeevan Mendis	4	0	19	0