Commonwealth Bank Series - 8th match
India won by 2 wickets (with 5 balls remaining)
| Sri Lanka innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| TM Dilshan | c †Dhoni b Patel | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| ST Jayasuriya | run out (Patel) | 0 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| KC Sangakkara† | c Kumar b Pathan | 128 | 241 | 155 | 12 | 0 | 82.58 | |
| DPMD Jayawardene* | run out (Kumar) | 71 | 171 | 99 | 4 | 1 | 71.71 | |
| CK Kapugedera | run out (RG Sharma) | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 | |
| LPC Silva | c Uthappa b Harbhajan Singh | 21 | 54 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 70.00 | |
| MF Maharoof | not out | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 75.00 | |
| WPUJC Vaas | not out | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 4, w 4, nb 1) | 9 | ||||||
| Total | (6 wickets; 50 overs) | 238 | (4.76 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat SL Malinga, MKDI Amerasinghe, M Muralitharan |
| Fall of wickets1-4 (Dilshan, 0.4 ov), 2-6 (Jayasuriya, 2.3 ov), 3-159 (Jayawardene, 37.4 ov), 4-161 (Kapugedera, 38.4 ov), 5-234 (Sangakkara, 48.6 ov), 6-235 (Silva, 49.3 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| MM Patel | 9 | 2 | 38 | 1 | 4.22 | (1w) | ||
| I Sharma | 10 | 0 | 44 | 0 | 4.40 | |||
| IK Pathan | 10 | 0 | 44 | 1 | 4.40 | (2w) | ||
| P Kumar | 10 | 0 | 49 | 0 | 4.90 | (1nb) | ||
| Harbhajan Singh | 10 | 0 | 54 | 1 | 5.40 | |||
| Yuvraj Singh | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5.00 | (1w) |
| India innings (target: 239 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| G Gambhir | c †Sangakkara b Amerasinghe | 15 | 58 | 34 | 2 | 0 | 44.11 | |
| SR Tendulkar | b Malinga | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| RV Uthappa | run out (Jayasuriya) | 10 | 42 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 35.71 | |
| RG Sharma | c Silva b Muralitharan | 24 | 74 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| Yuvraj Singh | b Vaas | 76 | 115 | 70 | 10 | 1 | 108.57 | |
| MS Dhoni*† | not out | 50 | 140 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 73.52 | |
| IK Pathan | b Amerasinghe | 31 | 62 | 41 | 4 | 0 | 75.60 | |
| P Kumar | c Jayawardene b Amerasinghe | 6 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 75.00 | |
| Harbhajan Singh | lbw b Malinga | 3 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| I Sharma | not out | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 14, w 10) | 24 | ||||||
| Total | (8 wickets; 49.1 overs) | 239 | (4.86 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat MM Patel |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| WPUJC Vaas | 10 | 0 | 27 | 1 | 2.70 | |||
| SL Malinga | 10 | 1 | 37 | 2 | 3.70 | (4w) | ||
| MKDI Amerasinghe | 10 | 0 | 49 | 3 | 4.90 | (1w) | ||
| MF Maharoof | 6.1 | 0 | 43 | 0 | 6.97 | (2w) | ||
| M Muralitharan | 10 | 0 | 44 | 1 | 4.40 | (1w) | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | 2 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 7.00 | |||
| TM Dilshan | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to bat Points India 4, Sri Lanka 0 |
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Player of the match
KC Sangakkara (Sri Lanka) |
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Umpires
AL Hill (New Zealand) and PD Parker TV umpire RL Parry Match referee JJ Crowe (New Zealand) Reserve umpire AR Collins |
| Match notes |
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Feb 19, 2008 Kumar Sangakkara won the Man of the Match for his 128 © Getty Images |
Feb 19, 2008 Mahendra Singh Dhoni cheers after getting the winning run © Getty Images |
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