Fourth India vs Sri Lanka ODI match postponed tommorrow due to rain

Fourth One Day International Cricket Match Postponed tommorrow

Due to rain, The match will be played on 27th August 2008, Wednesday, the reserve day. Already, India leads the series with 2-1 against Srilanka.

India take revenge in 2nd One Day International Match

India restricted Srilanka at 142 runs

India won the toss and welcome to play bat first to Srilanka batsman. Srilankan top order batsman failed in this Match. Top 6 wickets down in 17.2 Overs at score 44. Nuwan Kulasekara and Thilan Thushara are played steadily and build a partnership 74 runs for 7th wicket.
Dilhara Fernando and Muralitharan are also played well and build a partnership 20 runs for last wicket. At last Srilanka scored 142 runs. Zaheer khan is taken 4 wickets and Praveen Kumar is taken 3 wickets in this match.

India won by 3 wickets and Level the Idea Cup series with 1-1

India also faced trouble in starting overs. Five wickets down in 20 Overs at 75 runs Score. Captain Dhoni and S Badrinath are played steadily and construct a partnership between these two batsman 60 runs for 6th wicket. Finally India reached target 143 runs in 39.4 Overs.

Man of the match hero is Zaheer Khan

For Full Score card details here: 2nd ODI Score Card

Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets in 1st One Day International match

Indian Batsman failed to set a Big Target

India was troubled in the very first over i.e., Gambhir's wicket. Sehwag had injured his ankle during the practice session. Yuraj Singh made 23 runs, highest scorer of indian innings. All other batsman are failed including captain Dhoni. In the last overs, Pragyan Ojha and Munaf Patel are made 29 runs partnership. At close of innings, India finished at 146 runs.
Ajantha Mendis and Muralitharan are taken 3 wickets each.

Srilanka chased the target easily

Srilanka also started their innings slowly. Jayasurya's wicket taken by Munaf early. Jayawardene and Chamara Kapugedera both are build srilankan innings to finish their target. Both are made 102 runs partnership. Munaf got two wickets. But Other Bowlers not supported him.

Man of the match is taken by Ajantha Mendis

Next 2nd One day International match
20 Aug 2008
Sri Lanka vs India
2nd One Day International, Dambulla
Live match starts from: 04:30 GMT (10:00 IST)