At the end of the day Trist looks at the sunset like the old cowboy

It is the biggest malaise to haunt Indian cricket over the years

Dav Whatmore National Coach During the last 12 months we have started to see a very encouraging trend: Sri Lanka are playing their best one-day cricket in the biggest games

Indian captain Sourav Ganguly after his side's humiliating defeat in the final of the Coca-Cola Cup where his side was beaten convincingly by Sri Lanka admitted that his side had been outplayed by Sri Lanka in all departments of the game

Sri Lankan captain and player of the series Sanath Jayasuriya said he didn't expect India to go down so tamely in the final of the Coca-Cola Cup which his side won by 121 runs, "Honestly, I didn't think we could win the game that easily" said

The denouement must have come as a disappointment to the millions of Indian cricket followers the world over

The can't-win-final story of Indian cricket doesn't seem to end

It was the 1744th ODI in cricket history

Sanath Jayasuriya became the second Sri Lankan and 14th batsman in ODI history to be left stranded on 99 when he spooned a simple catch to his Indian counterpart off the bowling of Shewag in the final of the Coca- Cola Cup

Sri Lanka reserved their best performance of the Coca-Cola Cup until the end and cheered on by an animated capacity crowd, they crushed India by 121 runs in the final played tonight at the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo