Idea Cup, 2008 Sri Lanka vs India, 5th ODI R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, August 29, 2008 Match Information Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) & Tyron Wijewardene (SL) Third Umpire: MG Silva (SL) Match Referee: Chris Broad (Eng) Toss: Sri Lanka (Elected to bat) Match Status: Sri Lanka won by 112 runs Match State Rain reduced game [...]
Idea Cup, 2008 Sri Lanka vs India, 4th ODI R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, August 26, 2008 Match Information Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) & MG Silva (SL) Third Umpire: Tyron Wijewardene (SL) Match Referee: Chris Broad (Eng) Toss: India (Elected to bat) Match Status: India won by 46 runs Batting: Sri Lanka Innings Batsmen Sri Lanka [...]
Idea Cup, 2008 Sri Lanka vs India, 3rd ODI R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, August 24, 2008 Match Information Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) & Tyron Wijewardene (SL) Third Umpire: MG Silva (SL) Match Referee: Chris Broad (Eng) Toss: India (Elected to bat) Match Status: India won by 33 runs Batting: Sri Lanka Innings Batsmen Sri Lanka [...]
Idea Cup, 2008 Sri Lanka vs India, 2nd ODI Rangiri International Stadium, Dambulla, August 20, 2008 Match Information Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) & MG Silva (SL) Third Umpire: Tyron Wijewardene (SL) Match Referee: Chris Broad (Eng) Toss: India (Elected to field) Match Status: India won by 3 wkts Batting: India Innings Batsmen India (143/7 in [...]
India take on Sri Lanka in the second ODI at Dambulla tomorrow and they know that it is now or never time for the team. For the past two months, the Sri Lankans have had the better of their neighbours as one after the other, batsmen have come and gone out to the guile of [...]
India were shot out for a paltry 146 in the first ODI against Sri Lanka at Dambulla. Captain MS Dhoni opted to bat first after winning the toss and he would have hoped for a better showing than this, even though the team was missing dashing opener Virender Sehwag. Scorecard In his absence, Gambhir and [...]
Idea Cup, 2008 Sri Lanka vs India, 1st ODI Rangiri International Stadium, Dambulla, August 18, 2008 Match Information Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) & Asoka De Silva (SL) Third Umpire: MG Silva (SL) Match Referee: Chris Broad (Eng) Toss: India (Elected to bat) Match Status: Sri Lanka won by 8 wkts Batting: Sri Lanka Innings Batsmen [...]
Sri Lanka and India go head to head in a five match ODI series from tomorrow. The first two matches are day games that will be played in Dambulla while the next three matches are day night games to played in the Premdasa Stadium in Colombo. Scorecard Sri Lanka seem to have tabs on the [...]
Yuvarj Singh delivered on his promise of a good showing in the upcoming five match ODI series as he took the Sri Lanka XI attack to the sword as he notched up a brilliant century and scored 172 runs propelling the Indian score to 342 in 50 overs. Suresh Raina scored 45 and Gautam Gambhir [...]
World’s highest Test wicket-taker Muttiah Muralitharan has said that his young teammate Ajantha Mendis’ start to his Test career is better than that of his own and Aussie leg-spinner Shane Warne’s had been. “Ajantha Mendis was once again exceptional and fully deserved his first five-wicket haul in Tests. It took a while for me and [...]
Sri Lanka’s man of the match against India in the first test, Muttiah Muralitharan heaped praise on his new spin partner, the debutant spinner Ajantha Mendis, who bamboozled the Indians with his bag of tricks in the first cricket Test. While Murali got his 64th and 65th five wicket hauls taking 11 wickets in the [...]
In the end, the rainy conditions on the first day didn’t matter at all. For whatever time was wasted, it wasn’t lost at all, as Sri Lanka motored their way to a win over India in the first test at the SSC, Colombo. The hosts now lead the series 1-0. Electing to bat after winning [...]
The 1st Idea Cup Test Match between India and Sri Lanka was all about Muralitharan and Mendis. Not only did both these bowlers rout India, but they will be the cause of Indian nightmares for a long time. Scorecard Sri Lanka remained on top of the Indians throughout the match, specially after Warnapura, Jayawardene, Samaraweera [...]
On a pitch where four Sri Lankan batsmen struck centuries, it was nothing short of a capitulation that the mighty Indian batting line up folded up for 223 when faced with the guile and spin of Mendis and Muralitharan. Scorecard The Sri Lankan spin duo showed what they could do, in face of the dismal [...]
Speaking at the press conference before the first test against Sri Lanka, Indian captain re-iterated the fact that all the pressure to perform would be on test debutant Ajantha Mendis. “It’s not just Mendis, every bowler is discussed. It’s his first Test, let’s not forget that. The pressure is on him,” Kumble said, implying that [...]
Former India skipper Rahul Dravid has warned that Ajantha Mendis is not the only worry that the Indian team will have to face when they set out to win their first test series in 15 years in the Emerald Island. Ahead of the first test, Dravid said that the collective experience of Vaas and Murali [...]
Sri Lanka has won the Asia Cup 2008. They outperformed India in all departments – Batting, bowling and fielding. Jayasuriya and Mendis will probably remember this night for the rest of their life as both came out and fought for their country when it was in trouble. Ajantha Mendia is ‘Man of the Match’ for [...]
The Asia Cup Super Four match between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh remained one sided as soon as Jayasuriya and Sangakkara opened the Sri Lankan innings. The Lankans were given a thunderous start as both their openers got a century each. Jayasuriya scored 130 of just 88 balls and his innings included 6 sixes and 16 [...]
The Kings XI have been unstoppables throughout the tournament but the only team giving them a tough time has been the Chennai Super Kings who have defeated them on both occassions they have met during this tournament. The Super Kings had Hussey and Hayden to show-off when the tournament started but as of today, their [...]
The face off between two shrewd captains, is what the experts are terming the second match of the day as Chennai Super Kings would battle it out with the Shane Warne led, Rajasthan Royals. After the exodus of the Aussie players, and on current form, both the teams look evenly poised, and set for an [...]