Monday, August 25, 2008

Indian Seamers troubled Srilankans as they go up 2-1 in Idea Cup

In the third ODI between India and Srilanka played at the Premadasa Stadium, India won the match by 33 runs. After winning the toss, India choose to bat first. After the loss of early wickets,the Indian innings started steadily with Dhoni,Raina and Sharma contribute some useful runs and finally Indians put up 237 runs from 50 overs.Dhoni-76 and Raina-53 were the top scorers for the Indian team. Then while chasing the Srilankan top order batting line up comes a cropper as they were able to tackle the pressure that were put up by the Indian seam bowling attack.Jayawardene started playing some cameo innings along with Thushara but that partnership did not last longer.Srilanka were bowled out for 204 and India won the match by 33 runs.Jayawardene-94 and Thushara-30 were the top scorers for the Lankans. Zaheer and Munaf took three wickets each. Dhoni won the man of the match award for his all round performance in this match.

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