India beat Sri Lanka in 4th ODI, in Bilateral series played in 2008

Sri Lanka was scheduled to play a 4 match One day International series in India in 2008. 1st one day International matched was washed out due to rain.4th and last One Day International match was to be played on Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam, India on 17th Feb, 2008.

India won the toss and opts to bowl first and this means Sri Lanka will bat first.

This is how Indian team and 11 was looking like in this match: S Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid (c), Sourav Ganguly, H Singh, Anil Kumble, Dinesh Karthik, MS Dhoni (wk), S Sreesanth, Munaf Patel, Robin Uthappa

And Sri Lankan team and 11 was looking like this in this match: Marvan Atapattu, Mahela Jayawardene (c), Sanath Jayasuriya, Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Lasith Malinga, F Maharoof,Russel Arnold, Upul Tharanga, Malinga Bandara, Nuwan Kulasekara.

This match was reduced to 47 over’s a side due to rain.

Sri Lanka started very well and was able to score 259 runs in 47 over’s at the loss of 7 wickets and with contributions of C Silva who made unbeaten 107 runs in 107 balls with 12 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 100 runs in 100 balls and T dilshan made 28 runs in 44 balls with 3 4’s and strike rate of 64 runs in 100 balls.

India was required to score 260 runs in 47 over’s to win this 4^th ODI match and series as well.

India started very well and was able to chase this total in only 41 over’s at the loss of only 3 wickets and with the contributions of Yuvraj Singh who made unbeaten 95 runs in 83 balls with 11 4’s and 3 sixes at the strike rate of 115 runs in 100 balls and Saurav G made unbeaten 58 runs in 74 balls with 3 4’s and 3 sixes at the strike rate of 78 runs in 100 balls.

India won the match by 7 wickets and will 36 balls still remaining to play.

India won the series as well 2-1 and C Silva was the Man of the match and Saurav G was man of the series.

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