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Tuesday 8th February, 2011 BY REX CLEMENTINE in the third ODI against the last preparation ahead of the West Indies said. World Cup and Sangakkara ri Lanka captain Kumar After the first ODI was was happy at the way some Sangakkara says the washed off by rain, Sri players performed. “It gives Scurrent batting line-up Lanka did well to win the us a lot of confidence espe- of his side will remain for next two games to seal the cially to the guys who played the World Cup where he will series 2-0 and Sangakkara today. Dilhara Fernando has occupy the number three slot expected a few more been taking a lot of pressure followed by Mahela improvements from his side. throughout the provincial Jayawardena at number four. “A bit of work to be done tournament and since then Last week country’s World still especially in our middle to absorb the pressure and Cup winning captain Arjuna overs to try and keep the come and bowl the way he Ranatunga said that Sri runs down as there are few did was great not just for Lanka will do well in the too many boundary balls. In him but for us as well. The game’s flagship event if one batting we could bat a bit way Thisara Perera bowled of the two senior Sri Lankan longer building partnerships was extremely impressive batsmen drop down to num- and building foundations. We and the others like Ajantha ber five to strengthen a frag- probably could have got Mendis bowling in Power ile middle order. maybe another 10-15 runs.” Plays was good.” “Those are things we dis- “We lost one too many Sri Lanka play two warm cussed over the past year and wickets in the Power Play up games ahead of the World we finally settled down on and after the Power Play we Cup against West Indies and this combination and this just needed batsmen to be Netherlands before leaving kind of batting order as going. It was not to be but to Dhaka for the Opening being our best line up. Angelo again batted fantasti- Ceremony of the 2011 World Hopefully, we’ll go with that cally and Ajantha Mendis Cup. Their first game of the and if we need to change it chipped in very well and all tenth edition of the World at some point we’ll change,” in all 277 on this track was a Cup is on the 20th of Sangakkara, who was the pretty good score.” February at Hambantota Kumar Man of the Match for his 75 The series is Sri Lanka’s against Canada. Sangakkara Introducing World Cup Teams - Part 5 Nadal, Lindsey Vonn win 2011 Laureus awards BY MICHAEL CASEY inees including Los Angeles Lakers star French football great Zinedine Zidane Kobe Bryant, Filipino boxer Manny won the lifetime achievement award and ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates Pacquiao and Barcelona footballers Andres American surfer Kelly Slater was the (AP) - Rafael Nadal and Olympic skiing Iniesta and Lionel Messi. action sportsperson of the year. Italy’s champion Lindsey Vonn won this year’s Vonn, winner of the women’s downhill seven-time motorcycling world champion individual Laureus Sports Awards on at the Vancouver Games and a third con- Valentino Rossi took the comeback of the Monday,with Spain’s World Cup winners secutive overall World Cup title, took the year award after he returned to MotoGP taking the team prize. sportswoman’s award. High jumper Blanka just 41 days after breaking his leg. The No. 1-ranked Nadal - winner of Vlasic and tennis players Serena Williams, The winners are chosen by 46 sports three Grand Slam tennis titles in 2010 - was Kim Clijsters and Caroline Wozniacki were stars who make up the Laureus sports Co-hosts and joint named sportsman of the year, beating nom- among the other nominees. academy. leading contenders The hype around the Indian cricket team 1796 runs at an aver- Premier League Cricket to win the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup is age of 57.93 over five huge, but there are those who believe that by tournaments and the time the knockout stage starts, the when he takes the field Indians will struggle to cope up with the pres- this time around, he will equal Javed Ashan, Dilshan in 96 run stand for Lankan sure of expectations. Miandad’s record of six World Cups. India are pooled in Group ‘B’ where they Tendulkar also holds the record for most Openers Ashen Silva and Dilshan Badureliya back to the game after the Nondescripts Cricket Club to 29 runs for will play against Bangladesh, England, runs in a competition having amassed 673 Vitharana shared a 96 run-stand for vital opening partnership. three wickets at stumps in the rain Ireland, Netherlands, South Africa and West runs in the 2003 tournament. Lankan Cricket Club to post 127 for four Brief Scores affected Premier League Tier ‘A’ match Indies. They will begin their campaign by wickets at close on the first day of the Lankan CC 127 for 4 in 56 overs which commenced at NCC Grounds in playing the curtain-raiser of the competition Against Sri Lanka Premier League Tier ‘A’ match against (Ashen Silva 64, Dilshan Vitharana 32; Colombo yesterday. Badureliya Sports Club at Katunayake, Ranesh Perera 2/05, Tharindu Wet ground conditions prevented play against Bangladesh in Mirpur on the 19th of It took India seven World Cups and 24 yesterday. Attanayake 1/06, Omesh Wijesiriwardene from starting till 3.00 pm and it lasted for February. years to record their first win against Sri Kapil Dev’s 1983 side stunned the world by Lanka in a World Ashen Silva scored 64 runs off 138 1/30) just nine overs before bad light forced an Cup game. The first deliveries with seven fours and a six. early end. meeting between The game was affected by rain and Just nine overs possible on day one the countries was got under way around 1.15 pm. Right arm fast bowlers Shaminda Brief Scores before Sri Lanka Badureliya won the toss and decided to Eranga and Chinthaka Perera shared NCC 29 for 3 wkts in 9 Overs (Yohan gained Test status field first and Ranesh Perera’s two wick- three wickets between them for Chilaw de Silva 15; Shaminda Eranga 2/09, in the 1979 tourna- ets in the latter part of the day brought Marians Cricket Club as they restricted Chinthaka Perera 1/09) (RS) ment and Bandula Warnapura led the side to a compre- hensive win in Under-19 Schools Cricket Manchester. So far there have been seven World Cup games between Maliyadeva restricted to 183 runs Sri Lanka and India Spinners Chalana de Silva and de Silva 4/62, Kaushalya Gajasinghe overs (Asiri Wickramanayake 60, Nuwan with India winning just two of them. Kaushalya Gajasinghe shared six wick- 2/40) Kavinda 44, Kavindu Perera 26, Chamod winning the third ICC World Cup beating a India World Cup squad: M.S. Dhoni ets between them for Mahinda College to Mahinda 9 for no wicket in 6.3 overs Pathirana 16n.o; Shehan Jayasuriya strong West Indian outfit at Lord’s and in (Captain), Ravichandran Ashwin, Piyush restrict Maliyadeva College to 183 runs 4/71, Ashen Fernando 2/13) 2003 they were the losing finalists under Chawla, Gautam Gambhir, Zaheer Khan, on the first day of their Under-19 Asiri scores half century Sourav Ganguly.They had a poor campaign Virat Kohli, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra, encounter which started at Galle yester- Batting first, Asiri Wickramanayake Only three overs on day one in the last World Cup making a first round Munaf Patel, Yusuf Pathan, Suresh Raina, day. top scored with 60 runs for S. Thomas’ St. Benedict’s College were 12 for one exit. Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, Yuvraj In reply Mahinda were nine for no College to post 178 for six wickets at wicket in just three overs in their match Records Singh and Sachin Tendulkar. India scored the highest total in the World India World Cup Fixtures: wickets when bad light ended first day’s close on the first day of their rain inter- against Holy Cross College when match Cup history when they amassed a total of 413 Feb 19 Bangladesh v India, Mirpur play early. rupted Under-19 match against Prince of officials decided to call off the first day’s for five against Bermuda in the 2007 tourna- Feb 27 India v England, Bangalore Scores: Wales College which started at play due to wet wicket conditions at ment. Their 257 run win over Bermuda in Mar 6 India v Ireland, Bangalore Maliyadeva 183 for 9 in 78.2 overs Moratuwa yesterday. Kotahena yesterday. that game is the biggest winning margin in Mar 9 India v Netherlands, Delhi (Nimna Karunaratne 63, Dilshan Scores: Scores: World Cup history. Sachin Tendulkar has the Mar 12 India v South Africa, Nagpur Danushka 40, Sandun Silva 26; Chalana S. Thomas’ 178 for 6 at stumps in 55 St. Benedict’s 12/1 in 3 overs (RF) most runs in World Cups having amassed Mar 20 India v West Indies, Chennai Tuesday 8th February, 2011.