India win squares one-day series
August 20th, 2008India level their one-day series in Sri Lanka with a hard fought three-wicket success in Dambulla.
India level their one-day series in Sri Lanka with a hard fought three-wicket success in Dambulla.
Ajantha Mendis and Muttiah Muralitharan share six wickets as Sri Lanka thrash India in the first one-day international.
Although Zimbabwe Cricket might be refusing to play Kenya, it has nevertheless unveiled its preparations for the coming year.
Sri Lanka have made changes to their squad for the five-ODI series against India, bringing in left-hand batsmen Jehan Mubarak and Malinda Warnapura. The 15-member squad does not include allrounder Kaushalya Weeraratne, who was selected in the original list of 14.
Powered by Yuvraj Singh’s brutal century, the Indians cruised to a pre-ODI series 92-run win against a Sri Lankan XI at the P Saravanamuttu Stadium in Colombo. Yuvraj hit 13 sixes in a 121-ball 172, taking the Indians to 342 for 5, and in reply the opposition - comprising ten internationals - produced a sloppy chase, managing only 250.
Malinda Warnapura, the left-hand opening batsman, has earned a late call-up to Sri Lanka’s one-day squad for the five-match series against India.
Spin sensation Ajantha Mendis broke a 62-year-old record to help Sri Lanka close in on a series win over India.
It was good old-fashioned Test cricket - an examination of patience, will and
concentration - on the second day, and Kumar Sangakkara kept Sri Lanka’s nose ahead with a patient century.
The review of umpiring decisions, being trialled in the series, has already generated a lot of attention, and more so on Saturday, when a confident appeal by India for an lbw against Thilan Samaraweera was turned down.
Kumar Sangakkara’s appetite for big runs resurfaced, and along with Prasanna
Jayawardene he ran India ragged to inch Sri Lanka towards a comfortable
first-innings lead.