India Beat Sri lanka in 5th T 20 match of series in 2009

India was scheduled to play a 7 Match T 20 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 5th T 20 international match was to be played on Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Dambulla, 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 bat first; this is how India team and 11 was looking like in this 5th T 20 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 5th T 20 international Match: Mahela Jayawardene (c), Sanath Jayasuriya, 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 170 runs in 20 over’s at the loss of 7 wickets and with top scores of S Raina who made 60 runs in 30 balls with 4 4’s and 4 six at the strike rate of 200 runs in 100 balls and Y Singh 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 171 runs in 20 over’s to win this match.

Sri Lanka batted well but was unable to chase the target of 171 runs and was only able to make 155 runs in 20 over’s at the loss of 9 wickets and lost the game by 15 runs and with top contributions from K Sanga who made 40 runs in 50 balls with 5 4’s and 0 sixes at the strike rate of 80 runs in 100 balls.

India won the match by 15 runs and series stands at 5-0 in favor of India with 2 more games to play.

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