Live Updates of first ODI between India and Sri Lanka in Dambulla
Team India is scheduled to play the first One Day International against Sri Lanka after a gap of around two months, in Dambulla International Stadium. Both the teams are looking strong and competitive enough to fight each other.
Match is scheduled at 10 AM Local Time.
Team India got the first set back in the morning, with the news of Virender Sehwag not playing in the first ODI, Mahender Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to field first. Sri Lanka will bat first. Viru is out from the match due to the glute injury picked up during the training session. Rohit Sharma is in the team in place of Viru.
Live Score Card: India won the match by 6 wickets!
Thus India is now leading the five match series by 1-0. Sri Lanka tried the best but Dhoni kept his cool and played a superb knock of 61 runs. Thus captains knock guided the team to the victory.
India (Target 247) 247/4 (48.1 Overs) Rohit Sharma 25*, Dhoni 61*, Yuvraj 23, Raina 54, Gambhir 62, Sachin 5, Extras 17.
Match tied, India seems to lead the series by 1-0.
India now need only 10 runs in last 18 balls. Not a difficult task, while Dhoni is looking all set.
Now 17 runs in 24 balls.
Congratulations Dhoni for a superb half century.
So now India will require 28 runs in last five overs that means 30 balls to go. With 6 wickets in hand and Dhoni in between the middle it seems easy, but the last two overs of Murali and Mendis will be crucial for India.
So Yuvraj Singh fell at a crucial time, India is 4 wicket down now and Rohit Sharma came to join skipper at middle, although with the likes of Sharma, Dhoni, Pathan India looks in a much better position.
Raina got out at a crucial time, it was a run out which can cost India the match too.
Congratulation Raina for a superb half century.
So the M factor strikes for the first time and India lost the wicket of Gambhir. Murali took his wicket.
Congratulation Gambhir for a superb looking half century.
India is building the inning with a solid inning in between Suresh Raina and Gautam Gambhir, they two are batting with precaution after the fall of the wicket of the senior most campaigner Sachin Tendulkar.
First six of the Indian inning. Raina hits the first six, while Gambhir got one close save a few balls back. One of the angle of camera was showing that he is out while the other one is not clear and thus he got the benefits of doubt.
Big initial blow to India. They lost the experienced opener Sachin. Tushara dismissed him. To judged him LBW was the first ODI decision of the umpire Dharmasena, and it is a bit unfortunate for Sachin. The ball was marginally going out side the leg stump and was a bit high too. Although umpires decision is the last decision.
With the help of the brilliant century by Sanath Jayasuriya Sri Lanka any how managed to make 246 runs for the loss of 7 wickets. Now all eyes are on to the Ajantha Mendis and Muralitharan. Both can be dangerous, but seeing the depth of the Indian batting line up it is hard to say which team is going to win the match. After all both the teams are equivalent.
Sri Lanka 246/7 (50 Overs) Tushara 12*, Kulasekara 0*, Kapugedera 15, Maharoof 35, jayawardene 9, Jayasuriya 107, Kandamby 11, Sangakkara 44, Dilshan 0, Extras 5.
Congratulation Jayasuriya for his Fifty.
Big strike to the Sri Lankan team. India got the wicket of Dilshan in the very first over, he became run out.
The final eleven for the match are:
Team India: Gambhir, Tendulkar, Rohit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni, Yusuf Pathan, Zaheer Khan, Pragyan Ojha, Ishant Sharma, and Munaf Patel.
Sri Lanka: Jayasuriya, Dilshan, KC Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardene, Kapugedera, Kandamby, Maharoof, Thushara, Kulasekara, Muralitharan, and Mendis.
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