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India tour of Sri Lanka, 2008 / Scorecard

India in Sri Lanka ODI Series - 2nd ODI

Sri Lanka v India

India won by 3 wickets (with 62 balls remaining)

ODI no. 2745 | 2008 season
Played at Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium
20 August 2008 (50-over match)


Sri Lanka innings (50 overs maximum)		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
ST Jayasuriya	lbw b Khan	13	59	37	1	0	35.13
13.5 It cut in from outside the off stump, Jayasuriya was caught on the shuffle, trying to defend and was hit in front of the stumps but high around the front-pad flap. It looked like going over. Will confirm after replays. Zaheer has struck the most vital blow of the day. The virtual eye suggests it would have hit the top of the middle stump. Right at the top. So that's that. Jayasuriya is back in the hutch. 33/5
KC Sangakkara†	b Khan	2	8	10	0	0	20.00
1.6 Oh he has cleaned him up. The off stump has been pegged back. Sangakkara looks stunned. It landed around a length, outside off stump and seamed back in. Sangakkara had a lazy waft, without moving towards the line and the bat came down outside the line. He even lost the bottom-hand grip of the bat handle and that took the bat further away from the ball. 4/1
DPMD Jayawardene*	c Yuvraj Singh b Khan	2	14	10	0	0	20.00
5.4 Zaheer strikes with his full length and probing line around the off stump. Mahela gets forward, hangs his bat out in an effort to defend but the ball kept angling away, kissed the outside edge and flew towards the first slip. Dhoni had a half-hearted attempt at the catch before collapsing his knees and not getting in the way. The ball went to Yuvraj who juggled a bit but held on. 10 for 2. 10/2
CK Kapugedera	c †Dhoni b Khan	0	2	2	0	0	0.00
5.6 Zaheer is on a roll. The angling delivery works again. It landed on a length around off stump and shaped away a touch. Chamara had a poke. Fatal. Thin nick through to Dhoni. The slip fielders jump in joy, Dhoni flings the ball high in the air and Zaheer rushes to him. 10 for 3 and the Sri Lanka are wobbling here. 10/3
LPC Silva	c Kohli b Kumar	0	3	2	0	0	0.00
6.6 Praveen joins in the party hosted by Zaheer. It landed back of length around the middle stump line, Silva is sucked forward, bat way in front of the body and the ball curves away with bounce to take the shoulder of the bat and popping to point. 11 for 4 and Sri Lanka are reeling here. 11/4
TM Dilshan	c Badrinath b Pathan	16	50	33	3	0	48.48
17.2 What a first ODI catch to take! Badrinath is the man. Dilshan pulled the short-of-length delivery in the air in front and right of long leg. Badri charged in and dived to hold on to it. Ala Dean Jones. Dilshan promises to deceive. Sri Lanka are tottering here. Unbelievable. 44/6
KMDN Kulasekara	c Badrinath b Kumar	25	94	62	2	0	40.32
33.4 PK strikes again. Another slower ball. Kulasekara is early into the on drive, couldn't keep it down and Badrinath fell forward from his short midwicket position to take the catch 118/8
T Thushara	c Kohli b Kumar	44	69	46	7	0	95.65
33.1 PK gets the vital breakthrough with a lovely slower ball. It was full and around the off stump, Thushara, who hit the first ball of Praveen Kumar in the previous over for a boundary, again went for the swing across the line but holed out to Kohli at deep midwicket. 118/7
BAW Mendis	c & b Harbhajan Singh	0	5	1	0	0	0.00
34.1 Flighted doosra on the middle, Mendis, India's nemisis, didn't pick it up, tried to work it across the line and gets a leading edge back to Harbhajan. 122/9
CRD Fernando	c Kohli b Harbhajan Singh	12	21	12	2	0	100.00
38.3 Sri Lanka fold up for 142. Fernando skipped down the track and holed out to deep midwicket. 142/10
M Muralitharan	not out	11	19	16	1	0	68.75

Extras	(lb 6, w 11)	17

Total	(all out; 38.3 overs; 177 mins)	142	(3.68 runs per over)

Fall of wickets 1-4 (Sangakkara, 1.6 ov), 2-10 (Jayawardene, 5.4 ov), 3-10 (Kapugedera, 5.6 ov), 4-11 (Silva, 6.6 ov), 5-33 (Jayasuriya, 13.5 ov), 6-44 (Dilshan, 17.2 ov), 7-118 (Thushara, 33.1 ov), 8-118 (Kulasekara, 33.4 ov), 9-122 (Mendis, 34.1 ov), 10-142 (Fernando, 38.3 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
P Kumar	10	2	34	3	3.40
6.6 to Silva, Praveen joins in the party hosted by Zaheer. It landed back of length around the middle stump line, Silva is sucked forward, bat way in front of the body and the ball curves away with bounce to take the shoulder of the bat and popping to point. 11 for 4 and Sri Lanka are reeling here. 11/4 33.1 to Thushara, PK gets the vital breakthrough with a lovely slower ball. It was full and around the off stump, Thushara, who hit the first ball of Praveen Kumar in the previous over for a boundary, again went for the swing across the line but holed out to Kohli at deep midwicket. 118/7 33.4 to Kulasekara, PK strikes again. Another slower ball. Kulasekara is early into the on drive, couldn't keep it down and Badrinath fell forward from his short midwicket position to take the catch 118/8
Z Khan	9.5	3	21	4	2.13
1.6 to Sangakkara, Oh he has cleaned him up. The off stump has been pegged back. Sangakkara looks stunned. It landed around a length, outside off stump and seamed back in. Sangakkara had a lazy waft, without moving towards the line and the bat came down outside the line. He even lost the bottom-hand grip of the bat handle and that took the bat further away from the ball. 4/1 5.4 to Jayawardene, Zaheer strikes with his full length and probing line around the off stump. Mahela gets forward, hangs his bat out in an effort to defend but the ball kept angling away, kissed the outside edge and flew towards the first slip. Dhoni had a half-hearted attempt at the catch before collapsing his knees and not getting in the way. The ball went to Yuvraj who juggled a bit but held on. 10 for 2. 10/2 5.6 to Kapugedera, Zaheer is on a roll. The angling delivery works again. It landed on a length around off stump and shaped away a touch. Chamara had a poke. Fatal. Thin nick through to Dhoni. The slip fielders jump in joy, Dhoni flings the ball high in the air and Zaheer rushes to him. 10 for 3 and the Sri Lanka are wobbling here. 10/3 13.5 to Jayasuriya, It cut in from outside the off stump, Jayasuriya was caught on the shuffle, trying to defend and was hit in front of the stumps but high around the front-pad flap. It looked like going over. Will confirm after replays. Zaheer has struck the most vital blow of the day. The virtual eye suggests it would have hit the top of the middle stump. Right at the top. So that's that. Jayasuriya is back in the hutch. 33/5
MM Patel	6	1	24	0	4.00

IK Pathan	5	0	21	1	4.20	(3w)
17.2 to Dilshan, What a first ODI catch to take! Badrinath is the man. Dilshan pulled the short-of-length delivery in the air in front and right of long leg. Badri charged in and dived to hold on to it. Ala Dean Jones. Dilshan promises to deceive. Sri Lanka are tottering here. Unbelievable. 44/6
Harbhajan Singh	5.4	0	26	2	4.58	(4w)
34.1 to Mendis, Flighted doosra on the middle, Mendis, India's nemisis, didn't pick it up, tried to work it across the line and gets a leading edge back to Harbhajan. 122/9 38.3 to Fernando, Sri Lanka fold up for 142. Fernando skipped down the track and holed out to deep midwicket. 142/10
Yuvraj Singh	2	0	10	0	5.00	(1w)


India innings (target: 143 runs from 50 overs)		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
IK Pathan	c †Sangakkara b Kulasekara	5	11	8	1	0	62.50
2.4 Kulasekara takes out his man. He had Irfan in trouble on a few occasions and gets the reward now. It left the lefty Irfan Pathan - the in cutter to the right hand batsman - and got the edge on its way. Sangakkara didn't move his left leg but just dived to take the catch. 8/1
V Kohli	c Kapugedera b Thushara	37	82	67	6	0	55.22
19.4 Kohli throws his wicket away with a loose drive to extra cover fielder. Full in length and the urge to drive on the up swallows him. He started off in an slightly iffy manner against the new ball but settled down to play well but he is gone now. he had driven loosely in the second ball of this over but it had not gone in the air but this time a similar ball has fetched his wicket 75/4
SK Raina	lbw b Kulasekara	1	7	4	0	0	25.00
4.2 Caught plumb in front. Raina takes a tiny hesitant prod forward, tries to get his bat around the pad and is struck right in front. It landed on the middle and leg, cut in to hit the pad. Loose technique on offer by all the three Indians so far. 16/2
Yuvraj Singh	lbw b Mendis	20	40	32	4	0	62.50
14.5 Yuvraj continues to be a sitting duck against Mendis. Done in by that carrom ball again. It landed on a length around middle and off, Yuvraj groped forward and across, front leg landing well across the line and he couldn't get his bat around the front pad in time and the ball cut in to trap him right in front. Dead duck. 52/3
MS Dhoni*†	b Fernando	39	88	54	3	0	72.22
35.5 Cleaned him up with a fuller length delivery that shaped in. It came in from the full length, from the off stump line, Dhoni went for the drive and edges it to his stumps. Good innings from the captain. 135/6
RG Sharma	lbw b Thushara	0	2	2	0	0	0.00
19.6 Double strike from Tushara and I was wondering whether he had come on just to facilitate the change of ends for the spinners! It landed on the leg stump line, moved in with the left-armer's angle, Rohit was late on the defensive prod - a waft across the line - and was struck in front of the middle and leg above the knee roll. Like Jayasuriya's dismissal. Virtual eye suggests it would hit the top of the leg and middle. 75/5
S Badrinath	not out	27	83	57	1	0	47.36

Harbhajan Singh	lbw b Mendis	1	8	6	0	0	16.66
37.2 Mendis strikes with the carrom ball. It drifted in landed on the middle and off, Harbhajan tried to work it to the on side (he will think later why did I do that?) and it cut away to hit the pad in front of off stump. 139/7
Z Khan	not out	2	9	10	0	0	20.00

Extras	(b 3, lb 4, w 2, nb 2)	11

Total	(7 wickets; 39.4 overs; 170 mins)	143	(3.60 runs per over)

Did not bat P Kumar, MM Patel

Fall of wickets 1-8 (Pathan, 2.4 ov), 2-16 (Raina, 4.2 ov), 3-52 (Yuvraj Singh, 14.5 ov), 4-75 (Kohli, 19.4 ov), 5-75 (Sharma, 19.6 ov), 6-135 (Dhoni, 35.5 ov), 7-139 (Harbhajan Singh, 37.2 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
KMDN Kulasekara	9	2	26	2	2.88
2.4 to Pathan, Kulasekara takes out his man. He had Irfan in trouble on a few occasions and gets the reward now. It left the lefty Irfan Pathan - the in cutter to the right hand batsman - and got the edge on its way. Sangakkara didn't move his left leg but just dived to take the catch. 8/1 4.2 to Raina, Caught plumb in front. Raina takes a tiny hesitant prod forward, tries to get his bat around the pad and is struck right in front. It landed on the middle and leg, cut in to hit the pad. Loose technique on offer by all the three Indians so far. 16/2
T Thushara	7	1	32	2	4.57	(2w)
19.4 to Kohli, Kohli throws his wicket away with a loose drive to extra cover fielder. Full in length and the urge to drive on the up swallows him. He started off in an slightly iffy manner against the new ball but settled down to play well but he is gone now. he had driven loosely in the second ball of this over but it had not gone in the air but this time a similar ball has fetched his wicket 75/4 19.6 to Sharma, Double strike from Tushara and I was wondering whether he had come on just to facilitate the change of ends for the spinners! It landed on the leg stump line, moved in with the left-armer's angle, Rohit was late on the defensive prod - a waft across the line - and was struck in front of the middle and leg above the knee roll. Like Jayasuriya's dismissal. Virtual eye suggests it would hit the top of the leg and middle. 75/5
BAW Mendis	10	1	22	2	2.20
14.5 to Yuvraj Singh, Yuvraj continues to be a sitting duck against Mendis. Done in by that carrom ball again. It landed on a length around middle and off, Yuvraj groped forward and across, front leg landing well across the line and he couldn't get his bat around the front pad in time and the ball cut in to trap him right in front. Dead duck. 52/3 37.2 to Harbhajan Singh, Mendis strikes with the carrom ball. It drifted in landed on the middle and off, Harbhajan tried to work it to the on side (he will think later why did I do that?) and it cut away to hit the pad in front of off stump. 139/7
CRD Fernando	5	0	25	1	5.00	(2nb)
35.5 to Dhoni, Cleaned him up with a fuller length delivery that shaped in. It came in from the full length, from the off stump line, Dhoni went for the drive and edges it to his stumps. Good innings from the captain. 135/6
M Muralitharan	8.4	0	31	0	3.57

Match details

Toss India, who chose to field
Series 5-match series level 1-1

ODI debut S Badrinath (India)
Player of the match Z Khan (India)

Umpires BR Doctrove (West Indies) and MG Silva
TV umpire TH Wijewardene
Match referee BC Broad (England)
Reserve umpire RD Kottahachchi

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