India beat Sri Lanka and won the Idea Cup

Photo Courtsey - Times of India

Mahendra Singh Dhoni delighted after the win

India beat Sri Lanka by 46 runs in Idea Cup. All around performance by Indian players which help them to win this match and grab the series by 3 -1. India won the Toss and elected to bat first.

Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli added 44 runs for the first wicket. Virat Kohli made 54 runs off 66 balls (7 Fours) but the back bone provided by the Suresh Raina and Mahednra Singh Dhoni for the fourth wicket. Suresh Raina made 76 runs off 78 balls (6 Fours and 1 six), Mahendra Singh Dhoni made 71 runs off 80 balls (4 Fours).

Sri Lanka got the bad start and their wickets fall on continue intervals. Sanath Jayasurya made 60 runs off just 52 balls (8 Fours and 2 sixes) but no other batsman stay with Sanath. At the last moment of match Thushara made some runs and delayed the Indian win.

This was the first ever series win of India in Sri Lanka as a Bi Lateral tournament. In the captaicy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni Indian team is able to win those fort which were not in their range.

Final Score - India 258 all out in 49.4 overs, Sri Lanka 212 all out in 46.3 overs.

Suresh Raina after hitting half century

Yuvraj Successful appeal

Indian team celebrate fall of Jayawardene

Sanath Jayasurya fine knock went to vein

Dhoni played captain knock and seamer helped him

Photo Courtsey : Cricinfo.com

So finally Indian team show better performance than Sri Lankan team and beat them in on going India vs Sri Lanka series in third one day by 33 runs. India had bad start once again but thanks to the partership of Raina (scored 53 off 80 balls, 4 Fours and 1 six) and Dhoni (scored 76 off 80 balls, 8 Fours) who gave India a good run on the board first time in on going India vs Sri Lanka series. After Raina got out Rohit Sharma (scored 32 off 32 balls, 3 Fours) give the solid company to Dhoni.

When Sri Lankan team land to the crease they were in trouble from the very begining and lost their 7 wickets at the score of 94 only. Thanks to the captain knock because of which they have reached some respectable score, otherwise some time there were chances that they will lost the match by 3 figures.

Whatever may be the margin but the good thing of this win is that Indian players got their confidence back and when Captain is leading from the front than its really morale boost for the players. But however bad form of Gautam and Yuvraj is really point of tension for the team

Player of the match was M S Dhoni for his responsible 76 runs.

Raina - Solid knock to boost the team morale

Captain knock at the right time

Solid partnership in crunch situation Dhoni and Raina

Early break through make the task easy

Look at their body movement like hungry tigers

Another responsible moments and innings

India won the second ODI - If you call it a win

India won the second ODI in India Vs Sri Lanka series. But do you think that this is really a win, if Sri Lanka manage to add more 20 runs on the board than I am sure India would loss this match as well.

Particularly in this series Indian team are looking like as scattered with no team work no planning and no confident body movement. Indian batsmen are dancing on the tune of Sri Lankan bowlers.

Thanks to Zaheer who picked the early wickets and for batting thanks to Virat who added some runs so that later order batsmen wont feel the heat.

As per Sri Lankan skipper Jayawardene "We were just one wicket away from making inroads into their tail but the partnership between Dhoni and Badrinath took the game away from us. The 60 runs they put together was the difference, they batted really well. In a situation like that you can't do too many things. You have to stop the runs and attack as well, but it didn't work for us today."

Sri Lankans put only 142 runs on the board and they gave India a tough fight. Badrinath really show the character and was calm in crunch situation and took the India to the victory.

Zaheer Khan Celebrate Sri Lankan Wicket

Another Wicket to Zaheer, Took 4 Wickets

Indian batsmen danced on the tune of Sri Lankan Bowlers

Another Flop Show by Yuvraj Singh

Badrinath Took India to most needed Victory

Photo Courtsey - Rediff.com

Yet another overseas series lost

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Well most common history repeat again and India lost to Sri Lanka third test match and lost test series again. Indian team showed the character and bounce back in second test match but in third test match they repeat the 1st test performance and lost in 4th day by 8 wickets.

Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Virendra Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir ... these are names which can bring night mare to any bowler but here Mendis become the night mare for Indian batsmen.

Indian player were never in form except Virendra Sehwag in second test match no one was in form. It was like they forgot to play the cricket and came here to enjoy the picnic. Now India is going to play 5 One Day International against Sri Lanka under the guidance of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, lets see how he will do the magic.

India and Sri Lanka 2008 - Day 2 Review

So finally India in the position from where they can dominate this test and equal the series. This was all round performance by ball and bat. If Bhajji show his spin talent to Mendis than Sehwag and Gautam show their batting talent to Jayawardene and Warnapura.

This was really pleasing when India shows to Sri Lanka that they are still the master in spin bowling as Harbhajan and Kumble took six and three wickets respectively.

When Gautam and Sehwag came to the crease for 2nd Innings they have come with the target and they achieved it smoothly. Gautam and Sehwag give India a solid start in the second innings and their this inning will be milestone if India win this match.

At the stump India were 200/4 and two new batsman Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman were at the crease without scoring. Tomorrow will be important day for this test match and this day will give the final shape of this test match.

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