India in Sri Lanka

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Sri Lanka vs India
Third Test
Day Three - Stumps

INDIA 249
G Gambhir 72
BAW Mendis 5/56
KTGD Prasad 3/82
SRI LANKA 396
KC Sangakkara 144
HAPW Jayawardene 49
Harbhajan Singh 3/104
Z Khan 3/105
A Kumble 3/123
INDIA 5/161
R Dravid 46*
V Sehwag 34 (29 balls)
BAW Mendis 2/39
KTGD Prasad 2/46

India lead by 14 runs with 5 wickets remaining

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Sri Lanka vs India
Third Test
Day Two - Stumps

INDIA 249
G Gambhir 72
BAW Mendis 5/56
KTGD Prasad 3/82
SRI LANKA 6/251
KC Sangakkara 107*

Mendis again!
And Sri Lankains all over the Indians again. Where are the golden batsmen?

Series averages

Sehwag 344 runs @ 68.80 1 hundred 1 fifty (201 of those in one innings)
Gambhir 310 runs @ 51.66 3 fifties
Laxman 171 runs @ 34.20 1 fifty
Dravid 126 runs @ 25.2
Ganguly 96 runs @ 16.00
Tendulkar 95 runs @ 15.83

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he's going alright,but you can't call gambhir one of the golden batsmen....

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Sri Lanka vs India
Third Test
Day Four - Session Two

INDIA 249
G Gambhir 72
BAW Mendis 5/56
KTGD Prasad 3/82
SRI LANKA 396
KC Sangakkara 144
HAPW Jayawardene 49
Harbhajan Singh 3/104
Z Khan 3/105
A Kumble 3/123
INDIA 268
R Dravid 68
VVS Laxman 61
BAW Mendis 3/81
M Muralitharan 3/99
KTGD Prasad 2/60
SRI LANKA 2/42

Sri Lanka require another 85 runs with 8 wickets in hand

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Sri Lanka vs India
Third Test
Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets

INDIA 249
G Gambhir 72
BAW Mendis 5/56
KTGD Prasad 3/82
SRI LANKA 396
KC Sangakkara 144
HAPW Jayawardene 49
Harbhajan Singh 3/104
Z Khan 3/105
A Kumble 3/123
INDIA 268
R Dravid 68
VVS Laxman 61
BAW Mendis 3/81
M Muralitharan 3/99
SRI LANKA 2/132
BSM Warnapura 54*
DPMD Jayawardene 50*

Man of the Match - KC Sangakkara

Sri Lanka win 3 match series 2-1

Man of the series - BAW Mendis

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Sachin Tendulkar will not play in the ODI series in Sri Lanka this month due to an injured elbow. He will be replaced by S. Badrinath

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Sri Lanka have made changes to their squad for the five-ODI series against India, bringing in left-hand batsmen Jehan Mubarak and Malinda Warnapura. The 15-member squad does not include allrounder Kaushalya Weeraratne, who was selected in the original list of 14.

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The last time a Sri Lankan bowler took more wickets than Muttiah Muralitharan in a Test series - barring the one at home against South Africa in 2004 where he played only one match - was when West Indies visited in 2001-02. Murali would have topped the wickets tally again against India had it not been for a record-breaking performance from Ajantha Mendis in his debut series. Mendis' 26 wickets at 18.38 apiece was the record for most wickets by a debutant in a three-Test series.
The record that Mendis broke belonged to Alec Bedser, which he set during a three-Test rubber against India in 1946. Bedser took 24 wickets in five innings at 12.41, including 11-wicket hauls in the first two Tests. His 7 for 49 at Lord's was the second-best performance in an innings on debut, after Albert Trott's 8 for 43 against England at the Adelaide Oval in 1895

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Sri Lankan XI vs Indians
Indians won by 92 runs

INDIANS 5/342
Yuvraj Singh 172 (121) 8 fours 13 sixes
SK Raina 45 (57)
SRI LANKAN XI 6/250
J Mubarak 60 (74)
WU Tharanga 50 (58)
IK Pathan 2/48 (8)

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1st ODI: Sri Lanka v India at Dambulla, Aug 18, 2008

India 146 (46 ov)
Sri Lanka 147/2 (34.5 ov)Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets (with 91 balls remaining)

Ajantha Mendis is the Man of the Match for his spell of 3 for 21 off nine overs including four maidens

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Sri Lanka v India, 2nd ODI, Dambulla

India 143 for 7 (Dhoni 39, Kohli 37) beat Sri Lanka 142 (Thushara 44, Zaheer 4-21, Praveen 3-34) by three wickets
Zaheer 4-21 MOM

BAW Mendis 10 1 22 2 2.20
M Muralitharan 8.4 0 31 0 3.57

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Sri Lanka v India, 3rd ODI, Colombo

India 237 (Dhoni 76*, Raina 53, Mendis 3-56) beat Sri Lanka 204 (Jayawardene 94, Zaheer 3-23, Munaf 3-42) by 33 runs

Player of the match MS Dhoni (India)

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Sri Lanka v India, 4th ODI, Colombo

Rain forces match into reserve day
The match will be played on Wednesday as a day-night match beginning at 2.30pm local.

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Sri Lanka v India, 4th ODI, Colombo

India 258 (Raina 76, Dhoni 71, Kohli 54, Thushara 5-47) beat Sri Lanka 212 (Jayasuriya 60, Harbhajan 3-40) by 46 runs

Player of the match SK Raina (India)

Series India led the 5-match series 3-1

Mendis 10 1 43 1 4.30

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Sri Lanka after 50 overs 6/227

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5th ODI v Sri Lanka at Colombo (RPS) - Aug 29, 2008
Sri Lanka won by 112 runs (D/L method)
Sri Lanka 227/6 (50 ov); India 103 (26.3/44 ov)

Mendis 4.3 2 10 4 2.22