Match : India vs Srilanka, Match 11, CB triseries.
Venue : Bellerive Oval in Hobart, Australia.
Date : 26 February, 2008.. a Day ODI.
Debuts : none.
ODI no. : 2686 overall.
Toss : India, elected to field.
Result : India won by 7 wkts (106 balls remaining).
Series : Ind v Aus v SL triseries in Australia 2008
Man of Match : Praveen Kumar.
Umpires : Simon Taufel & Rudy Koertzen
Munaf Patel is a lazy cricketer. Captain Dhoni gave him the first over after electing to field on a damp pitch with overcast conditions yet this medium pacers bowled three lose overs back to back.. Srilankans got off to a flying start but as always in recent past - Indian team found a way to comeback into the match by taking 4 quick wickets and then restricting Srilankans to a smallish total.
Sachin Tendulkar & Gautam Gambhir put on 102 run partnership for the 2nd wicket and they was the end of match for Lankans. They were thrown out of the triseries in Australia with India joining Australia in best of 3 finals.
| Srilanka (50 over innings) | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | St Rate |
| Dilruwan Perera | b Ishant Sharma | 8 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 62 |
| Sanath Jayasuriya | C Dhoni b Irfan | 34 | 44 | 2 | 1 | 77 |
| Kumar Sangakkara | c Dhoni b Praveen | 33 | 42 | 4 | 0 | 79 |
| Mahela Jayawardene | c Rohit b Praveen | 3 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| Chamara Silva | c Dhoni b Praveen | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tillakratne Dilshan | lbw b Ishant Sharma | 8 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 67 |
| Chamra Kapugedera | C & b Harbhajan Singh | 57 | 86 | 4 | 0 | 66 |
| Chaminda Vaas | c Gambhir b Ishant | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lasith Malinga | c Uthappa b Ishant | 12 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 33 |
| Muthiah Muralitharan | b Praveen Kumar | 13 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 48 |
| Ishara Amerasinghe | not out | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Extras | (lb=5, wd=6) | 11 |
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| Total | (all out, 47.1 overs) | 179 | (3.79 runs per over) |
| Fall of wkt : 1-15 (Perera, 3.2 ov), 2-72 (Sangakkara, 14.1 ov), 3-77 (Jaya', 16.5 ov) |
| 4-81 (Silva, 18.3 ov), 5-81 (Jayasuriya, 19.3 ov), 6-93 (Dilshan, 23.3 ov), 7-93 (Vaas) |
| 8-139 (Malinga, 38.4 ov), 9-179 (Muralitharan, 46.5 ov) & Kapugerada. |
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| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ |
| Munaf Patel (1 wide) | 9 | 0 | 51 | 0 | 5.7 |
| Ishant Sharma (2 wides) | 10 | 0 | 41 | 4 | 4.1 |
| Irfan Pathan | 10 | 2 | 23 | 1 | 2.3 |
| Praveen Kumar (2 wides) | 10 | 2 | 31 | 4 | 3.1 |
| Harbhajan Singh | 4.1 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 4.1 |
| Yuvraj Singh (1 wide) | 4 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 2.8 |
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| India (target 180 in 50 overs) | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | St Rate |
| Robin Uthappa | c Amerasinghe b Malinga | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 122 |
| Sachin Tendulkar | c Silva b Muralitharan | 63 | 54 | 10 | 0 | 117 |
| Gautam Gambhir | not out | 63 | 89 | 5 | 0 | 71 |
| Yuvraj Singh | c Dilshan b Perera | 36 | 35 | 4 | 1 | 103 |
| Rohit Sharma | not out | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 43 |
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| Praveen Kumar |
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| Extras | (wd=4) | 4 |
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| Total | (for 3 wickets, 32.2 overs) | 180 | (5.56 runs per over) |
| Fall of wkts : 1-18 (Uthappa, 1.5 ov), 2-120 (Sachin, 20.1 ov), 3-171 (Yuvraj, 29.4 ov) |
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| Bowling |
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| Chaminda Vaas |
| 6 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 4.8 |
| Lasith Malinga | (3 wides) | 6 | 0 | 36 | 1 | 6.1 |
| Ishara Amerasinghe |
| 7 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 5.7 |
| Muthiah Muralitharan | (1 wide) | 8.2 | 0 | 54 | 1 | 6.5 |
| Sanath Jayasuriya |
| 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4.1 |
| Dilruwan Parera |
| 4 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 4.2 |