Let me tell you this game had everything from two different dogs pooping twice on the cricket field to the match being almost won by India to the match being almost won by Sri Lanka to a tie everything happenedduring this match and for the dog bit iam not kidding either lol.
Looking at the scorecard Sri Lanka had a very shaky start and ended up being 20/3 looked like India would be able to contain them to a low score in came the two most senior Sri Lankan and world class players Jaywardene and Sangakkara who kept the momentum for the Sri Lankan team going and added 100 plus runs of partnership before Jaywardena was caught plumb in front to a delivery by Rahul Sharma,Sangakkara at the other end got a nasty blow on the webbing between his right thumb and index finger which rules him out of the rest of the series.He soon got out to a wide delivery by Ashok Dinda and the game was evenly poised at this stage as Sri Lankans were 182/5 In came Mendis. Matthews and Mendis held the innings together helping the Sri Lankan score to 286/5 at the end of the 50 over mark.Looked like India had lost the initial advantage of really making inroads within the Sri Lankan team.It looked like a tough task for Indians to chase down such a huge target considering their miserable performance in the last match where they were bundled out for 138 which was easily chased down the home team.When you check out the over rate it was again very slow for India. Dhoni seems to be having lots of problems getting the overs in within the specific amount of time.It looks like he might be in danger of being suspended once again due to slow over rate.
When Indians came into bat Sehwag and Ghambir looking at the skies hoping to get all the blessings they can to get India off to a good start to chase down this mammoth total.Well,this was not to be as sehwag "AGAIN" threw away his wicket trying to force things by playing a shot over the extra cover.In came Kohli the pressure was again on India as Indians at this stage were 8/1,Kohli looked content as always and added on 100 plus runs partnership with Gambhir to steady things up.Kohli soon fell caught and bowled to herath after the 100 plus run partnership the disappointment showed in his face as he was very expressive.Rohit Sharma was the next man in to step in and support Gambhir but it was MS Dhoni who came out to be before him this reminded me of his world cup innings,Dhoni looked content and held one end while gambhir continued to impress.India opted for the powerplay and in came Malinga to bowl,After about 10 innings Malinga got a wicket as a bowled dismissal and who better and what better time to get the wicket that too of Dhoni clean bowled by an in swinging yorker by Malinga,Dhoni i believe did his part in came Rohit Sharma who does not seem to be getting anything right these days,First ball he faced by Malinga a superb Yorker Rohit Sharma was plumb in front was adjudged LBW.Malinga was in a Hatrick at this point but thats the furthest he could get!.In came Suresh Raina, who was apparently the last well known batsman,By this time Sri Lankans were tightening the screws and took the run rate required by India to above 8 runs per over,pressure mounting on Gambhir who made a century but soon after while taking a risky run was run out by a direct him by Udana,So in comes Irfan Pathan the run rate kept mounting up and up it went to above 9 runs per over at one time,With a little bit of luck and patience Raina and Pathan were able to get a boundry every over and steadied the Innings and got India back to track they needed 6 runs of the last over where on the third ball of the last over Irfan Pathan hit a boundry to seal the deal.This was a fantastic match both the teams played increadable cricket.India go up in the series 2-1.Sri Lankans would definitely do everything to bounce back in the 4th ODI to be held on tuesday as if this one goes India's way India will win the series.This puts exciting contest in our hands which i cannot wait to see!!being an indian supporter i would love to see India win but more than that i would love to see a great cricket match as i saw today.I will be reviewing the next match mostly after its over on tuesday or on wedneday lets see how this goes :)
Full Scorecard:
| Sri Lanka innings (50 overs maximum) | Dismissal | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WU Tharanga | c †Dhoni b Khan | 8 | 24 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 40 |
| TM Dilshan | b Khan | 4 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 57.14 |
| KC Sangakkara† | c Kohli b Dinda | 73 | 160 | 95 | 5 | 0 | 76.84 |
| LD Chandimal | lbw b Pathan | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DPMD Jayawardene* | lbw b R Sharma | 65 | 108 | 79 | 5 | 0 | 82.27 |
| AD Mathews | not out | 71 | 94 | 57 | 5 | 1 | 124.56 |
| BMAJ Mendis | not out | 45 | 60 | 40 | 3 | 1 | 112.5 |
| Extras | (b 2, lb 8, w 9, nb 1) | 20 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets; 50 overs; 233 mins) | 286 | (5.72 runs per over) | ||||
| Did not bat NLTC Perera, HMRKB Herath, I Udana, SL Malinga | |||||||
| Fall of wickets 1-9 (Dilshan, 2.3 ov), 2-19 (Tharanga, 4.5 ov), 3-20 (Chandimal, 5.3 ov), 4-141 (Jayawardene, 29.2 ov), 5-182 (Sangakkara, 37.6 ov) | |||||||
| India Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | Extras | |
| Z Khan | 10 | 0 | 39 | 2 | 3.9 | (3w) | |
| IK Pathan | 10 | 0 | 59 | 1 | 5.9 | (1nb, 3w) | |
| AB Dinda | 10 | 0 | 76 | 1 | 7.6 | (1w) | |
| R Sharma | 8 | 0 | 45 | 1 | 5.62 | (1w) | |
| R Ashwin | 10 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 5 | (1w) | |
| V Sehwag | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||
| RG Sharma | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | ||
| India innings (target: 287 runs from 50 overs) | Dismissal | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR |
| G Gambhir | run out (Udana) | 102 | 166 | 101 | 10 | 0 | 100.99 |
| V Sehwag | c sub (SMSM Senanayake) b Perera | 3 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| V Kohli | c & b Herath | 38 | 80 | 65 | 2 | 0 | 58.46 |
| MS Dhoni*† | b Malinga | 31 | 60 | 49 | 1 | 0 | 63.26 |
| RG Sharma | lbw b Malinga | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| SK Raina | not out | 65 | 77 | 45 | 6 | 1 | 144.44 |
| IK Pathan | not out | 34 | 61 | 31 | 3 | 0 | 109.67 |
| Extras | (lb 11, w 4) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets; 49.4 overs; 228 mins) | 288 | (5.79 runs per over) | ||||
| Did not bat R Ashwin, Z Khan, R Sharma, AB Dinda | |||||||
| Fall of wickets 1-8 (Sehwag, 1.4 ov), 2-113 (Kohli, 20.5 ov), 3-180 (Dhoni, 35.1 ov), 4-180 (RG Sharma, 35.2 ov), 5-196 (Gambhir, 38.3 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | Extras | |
| SL Malinga | 10 | 0 | 60 | 2 | 6 | ||
| NLTC Perera | 9 | 0 | 57 | 1 | 6.33 | ||
| I Udana | 6 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 7 | (4w) | |
| AD Mathews | 8.4 | 0 | 49 | 0 | 5.65 | ||
| HMRKB Herath | 9 | 0 | 36 | 1 | 4 | ||
| TM Dilshan | 3 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 4.66 | ||
| BMAJ Mendis | 4 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 4.75 |
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