India Beat Sri lanka in 7th 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 7th 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 bat first; this is how India team and 11 was looking like in this 7th 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 7th 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

Sri Lanka batted well and was able to post total of 280 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 8 wickets and with top scores of T Dilshan who made 80 runs in 40 balls with 10 4’s and 4 six at the strike rate of 200 runs in 100 balls and T Thusara who made 40 runs in 20 balls with 2 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 200 runs in 100 balls.

India was needed to score 281 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

India batted well and was able to chase the target of 281 runs in 48.4 over’s at the loss of 6 wickets and won the game by 4 wickets in hand and with top contributions from G Gambhir who made 90 runs in 90 balls with 6 4’s and 3 sixes at the strike rate of 100 runs in 100 balls.

India won the match by 4 wickets in hand and series ends at 6-1 in favor of India.

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