India beat Sri Lanka, India won by 157 runs

India win by lotsa runs

presentations from Mr Smooth himself, Ravi Shastri

Ranatunga: "they batted really well... we should it would move early.... fielding was not too good today... we need to try our best for the next game"

Azhar greeted by cheers: "... every game is important from now on... "

blow me down with a feather, Ganguly is the man of the match: "there's always something in the wickets early on... fancied my chances later on [against the spinners]... we have a very good chance [of beating England]"

and that's all from Somerset, tomorrow's games are WI v Scot and Aust v Bdesh. 2 fascinating matches no doubt. Both will begin at 0945 GMT

until then, it's top of the evening to you from CI.

42.3

Singh to Murali, OUT

onto one knee, trying to pull over mid wicket, top edge, Tendulkar catches safely at extra cover to bump up his fantasy points a little

Muthiah Muralidaran c Tendulkar b Singh 4 (3b 1x4 0x6 4m) SR: 133.33

42.2

Singh to GP Wickramasinghe, 1 run

driving outside the off stump towards the extra cover

42.2

Singh to GP Wickramasinghe, 1 wide

down the leg side, Robin took a while to find his normal form

42.1

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Singh to GP Wickramasinghe, no run

42.1

1nb

Singh to GP Wickramasinghe, (no ball)

Over42

10 runs, 1 wicket

SL 213/9CRR: 5.07 RRR: 20.12

M Muralidaran 4 (2b 1x4)GP Wickramasinghe 1 (3b)

A Kumble1/27 (8)

41.6

Kumble to Murali, FOUR runs

lofting it over the backward point, Murali's goign for the win

41.5

Kumble to Murali, 4 byes

huge wafting swing and miss, goes past the leg stump, Dravid's performance behind teh stumps is statistically damaged

41.4

Kumble to GP Wickramasinghe, 1 run

and another run

41.3

Kumble to GP Wickramasinghe, OUT

working it around the corner, Tendulkar is the fielder at short fine leg, Mahanama is sent back, great throw, throws down the stumps at the bowler's end, everything going the way of one team

Roshan Mahanama run out (Tendulkar) 32 (45b 3x4 0x6 56m) SR: 71.11

41.2

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Kumble to GP Wickramasinghe, no run

tapping it away into the covers

41.1

Kumble to Mahanama, 1 run

Over41

3 runs, 1 wicket

SL 203/8CRR: 4.95 RRR: 19.00

RS Mahanama 31 (44b 3x4)

RR Singh4/28 (9)

40.6

Singh to Upashantha, OUT

to the 1st slip, can't be much longer now

Eric Upashantha c Azharuddin b Singh 5 (17b 0x4 0x6 13m) SR: 29.41

40.5

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Singh to Upashantha, no run

40.4

Singh to Mahanama, 1 run

40.3

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Singh to Mahanama, no run

fending the ball at it, straight to the keeper

40.2

Singh to Upashantha, 1 run

pushing away on the off side

40.1

Singh to Mahanama, 1 run

glancing off the pads towards the fin eleg

Over40

2 runs

SL 200/7CRR: 5.00 RRR: 17.40

KEA Upashantha 4 (14b)RS Mahanama 29 (41b 3x4)

A Kumble1/21 (7)

39.6

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Kumble to Upashantha, no run

39.5

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Kumble to Upashantha, no run

defensive back to the bowler

39.4

Kumble to Mahanama, 1 run

drivign down the on side into the deep

India vs Sri Lanka, 21st Match at Taunton, May 26 1999 - Match Result