India Wins third match
Posted on August 25, 2008, under News.
India did really a good job at premadasa stadium on Sunday,handing SriLanka only 18th defeat in 67 ODIs at this venue and securing a 2-1 lead in the five-match series.
Man of the Match M.S Dhoni’s 80 ball 76(8×4)and his alliances of 54 with Suresh Raina(53) and 67 with Rohit Sharma helped India score 237 for nine in 50 overs after winnig the toss.
Praveen Kumar and Zaheer Khan resumed their contract Dambulla ,reducing SriLanka’s reply to 40 for four.From the side of SriLanka Mahila Jayawardene’s brave and brilliant 94(111b,6×4,1×6)was far to good to be counted as merely raging against the daying of the light.
The last SCOREBOARD was India: 237 allout(50 over)
SriLanka:204 for 9 wicket(49 over)