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Keeps India in Contention Wednesday 29th February, 2012 SCOREBOARD Sri Lanka innings M. Jayawardene c Sehwag b Jadeja 22 T. Dilshan not out 160 K. Sangakkara b Kumar 105 T. Perera run out 3 A. Mathews c Ashwin b Khan 14 D. Chandimal not out 2 NBELIEVABLE Extras: (3lb,11w) 14 U win TOTAL: (for four wickets) 320 Overs: 50 Fall of wickets: 1-49, 2-249, 3-279, 4-309. Did not bat: Lahiru Thirimanne, Farveez Maharoof, keeps India Nuwan Kulasekera, Lasith Malinga, Rangana Herath. Bowling: Zaheer 9-0-61-1 (2w), Praveen 9-0-64-1 (9w), Yadav 8-0-56-0, Jadeja 9-0-43-1, Ashwin 10-0- 52-0, Sehwag 3-0-24-0, Raina 2-0-17-0. India Innings V. Sehwag c Dilshan b Maharoof 30 in contention S. Tendulkar lbw b Malinga 39 G. Gambhir run out 63 V. Kohli not out 133 FACTS S. Raina not out 40 !The run-rate during the 100-run stand between Extras: (4b,6lb,6w) 16 Kohli and Raina (13.56) is the highest ever for TOTAL: (for three wickets) 321 India for a 100-plus partnership in ODIs. Overs: 36.4 !Malinga conceded over 90 runs for the 1st time Fall of wickets: 1-54, 2-86, 3-201. in his ODI career. His economy rate of 12.52 is the Did not bat: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Ravindra highest in ODIs for a minimum of five overs. Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Praveen !India become only the 2nd team after Sri Lanka Kumar, Zaheer Khan, Umesh Yadav. (Headingley 2006) to chase a 300-plus target in Bowling: Malinga 7.4-0-96-1 (3w), under 40 overs. Kulasekera 8-0-71-0 (1w), Maharoof !The 8.75 run-rate in India’s chase is the 2nd- 3-0-21-1, Thissara 7-0-59-0 (1w), highest for a 250-plus chase in ODIs after S. Mathews 7-0-44-0, Herath 4-0- Africa’s chase of 434 in J’burg in 2006. 20-0 (1w). !India hit 33 fours equalling the highest number Man of the Match: Virat of boundaries hit in a team innings in Australia. Kohli (Ind) !The 200-run stand between Sangakkara and Toss: won by India. Dilshan is the highest partnership in ODIs in Result: India won by Hobart surpassing the 165-run stand between Nick seven wickets. Knight and Marcus Trescothick in 2003. Umpires: Asad Rauf !Sangakkara’s strike rate of 120.68 during his (Pak), Simon Taufel (Aus) century is his highest for a 100-plus score. Third Umpire: Simon Fry (Aus) !The match run-rate of 7.39 is the highest for a Match Referee: Chris Broad (Eng) completed ODI in Australia. must-have bonus point, India started with neces- Virat Kohli celebrates hitting the winning runs in Hobart, Australia, yesterday, Feb. 28. (AP Photo/Chris Crerar) sary aggression through Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar. together was a great team effort,” Kohli said. knock contained 11 boundaries and three sixes. Sehwag flayed the attack for 30 from 15 balls “This shows our character as a team. It wasn’t enough for Sri Lanka to improve on its before he was caught by Dilshan off Farveez “So far it has been probably the best one-day three-match winning streak. Maharoof ’s bowling in the seventh over at 54-1. innings I’ve played.” Sri Lanka skipper Mahela Jayawardene said Tendulkar stroked five boundaries and reached Kohli, who clubbed 16 boundaries and two sixes, India “had the license to go with it today.” 39 from 30 balls before he was trapped lbw by a low said India’s destiny in the tournament was in “Virat batted exceptionally well. Everything he full toss from Lasith Malinga in the 10th over. India Australia’s hands. hit was pretty solid,” he said. “We probably didn’t slipped to 86-2 but Malinga conceded 15 runs in the “We hope they’ll win, beat Sri Lanka, and hope- bowl well up front. They hit quite a few boundary Tillakaratne Dilshan celebrates his century. over which netted Tendulkar’s wicket and India fully we’ll qualify,” he said. “We’ll just have to balls. Obviously it wasn’t one of our days. maintained the pressure. watch and wait.” “It’s a tough game for us to swallow obviously. HOBART, Australia (AP) — Virat Kohli Kohli batted flawlessly in his highest score for Australia has already secured a place in the We have to make sure we come back strongly” smashed an unbeaten 133 from 86 balls to lead India India as he shared a 115-run, third-wicket stand finals, which start on Sunday in Brisbane. against Australia. to a seven-wicket, bonus-point victory over Sri with Gautam Gambhir (62) and 120 for the fourth Sri Lanka was ideally placed to clinch the other A terrible day for the bowlers was highlighted Lanka on Tuesday, keeping the World Cup champi- with Suresh Raina (40 not out) to guide India to 321- spot in the finals after opener Dilshan carried his by Malinga’s figures, with the usually reliable pace- ons in contention in the limited-overs tri-series. 3 with 80 balls to spare. bat for an unbeaten 160 at Hobart. man going for 96 in 7.4 overs. One of his overs to Sri Lanka batted first and totaled 320-4 in 50 India can still advance to the best-of-three finals Dilshan reached his 11th ODI hundred from 132 Kohli cost 24 runs, including a two, a six and four overs, with Tillakaratne Dilshan scoring an unbeat- if Sri Lanka loses the last league match to Australia balls and then lifted his run-rate, scoring his next 50 consecutive boundaries. en 160 and sharing a 200-run, second-wicket stand on Friday. from 27 balls. He equaled his career-high ODI score Sri Lanka has beaten Australia in their last two with Kumar Sangakkara, who hit 105. “To be able to chase 320 in 40 overs in a must- of 160 with a giant six in the last over. His 165-ball matches. Needing to score 321 within 40 overs for the win game, and put that sort of a batting effort St. Sylvester’s qualify after many years Morgan dropped by England BY REEMUS FERNANDO had qualified for the second round in as St. Sebastian’s (15 for no wickets five at close in their second essay in for Sri Lanka Tests many as ten years. o/n) 201 for 7 wkts decl in 53 overs their match which ended at Kalutara LONDON (AP) — St. Sylvester’s College’s outright victo- Scores: (Anushka Perera 51, Luke Jayadewa Esplanade yesterday. Batsman Eoin Morgan ry over D. S. Senanayake College, DSS 182 and 63 all out in 26.5 overs 46, Sangeeth Cooray 38 n.o., Sanitha Scores: paid the price for a dismal Colombo yesterday turned the points table (Saveen Cyril 16; Nimesh Mendis 6/22, de Mel 25; Thilaksha Sumanasiri 2/41) Gurukula 191 all out in 31 overs tour of the United Arab of the Inter-School Under-19 Division I Sumeda Dissanayake 2/24) (Lisula Lakshan 88, Nalin Perera 20, Emirates by being upside down as they qualified for the St. Sylvester’s (95 for 4 o/n) 147 all Dharmaraja stranded at 44 for 2 in Chanaka Dilshan 34; Minura Deelaka dropped from England’s knockout phase of the tourney for the first out in 71.3 overs (Faiz Ahamed 27, chase of 99 runs 8/79, Nisal Chandika 2/33) and 218 for Test squad on Tuesday for time in many years, while the losing team Waruna Wijesignhe 38, Harsha Chasing a target of 99 runs to win, 5 wkts at close in 44.4 overs (Nalin the two-Test series in Sri crashed out of the tournament. Madushan 27; Harith Maduwantha 8/47, Dharmaraja College were 44 for two Perera 65, Shashin Dilranga 86 n.o.; Lanka. wickets against While the winners settled at the sec- Supun Madusanka Kalpa Wijenayake 3/59) Eoin Morgan Morgan averaged just 2/21) 101 for 3 wkts. in Kalutara Vidyalaya ond spot of the points table in Group ‘D’, Holy Cross (41 for 4 o/n) 97 all out 13.66 runs per innings 28.1 overs (Waruna when rain ended the team from Colombo who were placed Under-19 Cricket in 45.1 overs (Tharin Lakeesh 28, against Pakistan in three Tests in the Wijesinghe 52 n.o., their match before among the first four teams until yesterday Minura Deelaka 31; Nalin Perera 5/28, Emirates and fared little better in the limit- Harsha Madushan 20; Harith the scheduled close at Kandy yester- were eliminated from the competition with Dushan Danushka 4/22) ed-overs contests despite being regarded as Maduwantha 2/32) day. yesterday’s defeat. DSS had to settle at Dharmaraja earned first innings a specialist. the seventh place of the points table after No play at Campbell Park Sebs on first innings points. His struggles presented an opportunity the defeat. The match between Richmond for Samit Patel, who was included in the 16- St. Sebastian’s College earned first Scores: College and Wesley College ended in a The first four teams in each group and innings points against S. Thomas’ Kalutara Vid 94 and (79 for 2 o/n) man Test squad for the first time and will the two best teams from the rest of the no-decision without a ball being bowled compete with Ravi Bopara for the No. 6 spot College, Mt. Lavinia as they posted 201 124 all out in 50 overs (Suban on day two yesterday due to wet teams in the entire Division will only in the batting line-up.
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