India Beat Sri lanka in 3rd ODI match of series in 2009

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 3rd 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.

India won the toss and opts to bowl first; this is how India team and 11 was looking like in this 3rd 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 3rd 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 220 runs in 48 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and with top scores of Sachin T who made 70 runs in 50 balls with 10 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 140 runs in 100 balls and S Raina who made 40 runs in 20 balls with 3 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 200 runs in 100 balls.

Sri Lanka was needed to score 221 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

Sri Lanka batted well but was unable to chase the target of 221 runs and was only able to make 210 runs in 45.2 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and lost the game by 10 runs and with top contributions from T Dilshan who made 60 runs in 50 balls with 7 4’s and 1 sixes at the strike rate of 120 runs in 100 balls.

India won the match by 10 runs and series stands at 3-0 in favor of India with 4 more games to play.

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