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India vs Sri Lanka in India, Nov-Dec 2009
Sri Lanka in India Three Test, five ODI and Two T20 match seriesSri Lanka will be looking for the elusive test match and series win when they tour India for a Three Test, five ODI and Two T20 match series from November to December 2009. The team arrive in India on November 8th for the 55-day tour.
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India in Sri Lanka CricketSeries 2008India vs Sri Lanka 2nd ODI at DambullaIND vs SL, 2nd ODI, Dambulla: India level cricket series with tense victory(1:1)Aug 20, 2008
Mahendra Singh Dhoni capped Zaheer Khan's devastating spell with a crucial 39 as India posted a tense three-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the second one-day international at Dambulla on Wednesday.
Left-arm seamer Zaheer ran through the top order in his incisive opening spell to finish with 4-21 as India bundled Sri Lanka out for a meagre 142. He was brilliantly backed by paceman Praveen Kumar (3-34). But India skipped a few heartbeats before achieving the modest target with more than 10 overs to spare to level the five-match series 1-1. They were wobbling at 75-5 after seamers Thilan Thushara and Nuwan Kulasekara shared four wickets, but skipper Dhoni and debutant Subramaniam Badrinath (27 not out) held their nerve under pressure. When Dhoni inside-edged paceman Dilhara Fernando's delivery on to his stumps, his team were just eight runs short of the win with four wickets in hand. Unorthodox Sri Lankan spinner Mendis yet again made the Indian batsmen struggle for runs with shrewd variations, getting the big wicket of Yuvraj Singh before finishing with 2-22 off 10 overs. Yuvraj (20) tried to ease the pressure by smashing Thushara for three fours in two overs, but his flourish did not last long. He was trapped leg-before by Mendis to leave his team wobbling at 52-3. India appeared to have squandered the advantage given by Zaheer when they lost makeshift opener Irfan Pathan and Suresh Raina in Kulasekara's opening spell and then Virat Kohli (37) and Rohit Sharma in Thushara's one over. Dhoni and Badrinath then applied themselves well to add 60 for the sixth wicket which proved vital in a low-scoring game. Sri Lanka were earlier in danger of falling to their lowest-ever total of 96 against India when they were reduced to 44-6, but Thushara (44) and Kulasekara (25) rallied their side with a defiant 74-run stand. The Indian skipper's decision to put the hosts in to bat after winning the toss produced instant results as Zaheer bowled Kumar Sangakkara with his sixth delivery which moved in sharply to hit the off-stump. Man-of-the-match Zaheer claimed two wickets in his third over, removing in-form Jayawardene and Chamara Kapugedera. IND vs SL, 2nd ODI, Dambulla: India 143 for 7 (39.4 overs) beat Sri Lanka 142 all out (38.3 overs) by 3 wicketsIND vs SL, 2nd ODI, Dambulla: India may shuffle batting line up to counter LankansAug 19, 2008
India may opt to shuffle their struggling batting line-up as they go into the second cricket one-dayer against Sri Lanka at Dambulla tomorrow hoping to find a way to regain their winning touch.
After losing the Test series, the Indians made a poor start to the one-dayers by losing the first game here by eight wickets and it will need a far more inspiring performance by Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his men to reverse their fortunes. The absence of Virender Sehwag, who has been ruled out of the series because of an injury, has come as a big blow for the Indians who have been forced to have a re-look at the batting order. The Indian think tank is now toying with the idea of shuffling the batting order for the crucial second game of the five-match series. But with an average age of around 24 years, Dhoni and his men will have to move mountains to get a stranglehold of the on-going series and this may force the skipper to move himself and other seniors up the batting order. However, Dhoni will be missing the fire power of his most experienced batsman Sehwag who can really be destructive on his day. In that scenario, vice-captain Yuvraj Singh, who hit an explosive 172 in the lone practice match before the start of the ODI series, opener Gautam Gambhir and Dhoni himself will have to take the responsibilty on their shoulders to guide the relatively junior batsmen of the team. Sri Lanka team (from): Mahela Jayawardene (capt.), Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Sanath Jayasuriya, Mahela Udawatte, Chamara Silva, Chamara Kapugedera, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Malinda Warnapura, Jehan Mubarak, Chaminda Vaas, Muttiah Muralitharan, Dilhara Fernando, Ajantha Mendis, Thilan Thushara and Nuwan Kulasekara. India team (from): M.S. Dhoni (capt. & wk), Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Rohit Sharma, S. Badrinath, Virat Kohli, Parthiv Patel, Irfan Pathan, Praveen Kumar, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, R.P. Singh, Munaf Patel and Pragyan Ojha. India in Sri Lanka CricketSeries 2008India vs Sri Lanka 2nd ODI at DambullaScorecardIndia won the toss and decided to field
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Back to top Umpires: B R Doctrove, M G Silva Sri Lanka: Jayasuriya, Sangakkara, M Jayawardene, Kapugedera, Dilshan, Silva, D Fernando, Thushara, Kulasekara, Mendis, Muralitharan India: I Pathan, Kohli, Raina, Yuvraj, R Sharma, Dhoni, Badrinath, Harbhajan, Zaheer, Kumar, Patel Cricket News Archives
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