India was scheduled to play a 7 Match ONE DAY International series in Sri Lanka in 2009. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series and who batted very well will be crowned as the winner after the series as they are ranked at 2 and 4. The 2nd ONE DAY international match was to be played on R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka. India holds the upper hand as they are more balanced team and playing very well as well.
Sri Lanka won the toss and opts to bowl first; this is how India team and 11 was looking like in this 2nd ONE DAY international match: Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, MS Dhoni (c & wk), Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Munaf Patel, Rohit Sharma, Ishant Sharma, Yusuf Pathan, Pragyan Ojha
And Sri Lanka team and 11 was looking like this in this 2nd ONE DAY international Match: Mahela Jayawardene (c), Sanath J, Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Thilina Kandamby, Muttiah Muralitharan, Farveez Maharoof, Chamara Kapugedera, Nuwan Kulasekara, Thilan Thushara, Ajantha Mendis
India batted well and was able to post total of 270 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 7 wickets and with top scores of Y Singh who made 80 runs in 50 balls with 10 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 160 runs in 100 balls and Y Pathan who made 30 runs in 15 balls with 2 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 200 runs in 100 balls.
Sri Lanka was needed to score 271 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.
Sri Lanka batted well but was unable to chase the target of 271 runs and was only able to make 265 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 9 wickets and lost the game by 5 runs and with top contributions from K Sanga who made 70 runs in 70 balls with 9 4’s and 1 sixes at the strike rate of 100 runs in 100 balls.
India won the match by 5 runs and series stands at 2-0 in favor of India with 5 more games to play.
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