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Fall of Indian wickets :

1-41 (Virender Sehwag, 6.5 ovs) : Decided to take on Vaas, goes for a wild slash and Vaas who was mixing his deliveries with some off cutters got the outside edge, easy catch to Sangakkara behind the stumps.

2-205 (Irfan Pathan, 30.6 ovs) : His inside out lofted shots with the turn were going really well and he was into another of such shots, this time the ball takes the outside half of the blade. The ball scoops in the air to be taken Jayawardene at Point. Well bowled by Tillakaratne Dilshan, inspite of getting smacked, he was bringing in subtle variations like coming in at different angles at the crease.

3-207 (Sachin Tendulkar, 31.2 ovs) : By now he was cramping and it was just few minutes away from Sachin getting Sehwag as the ruuner. The short break when he was having a minor treatment seemed to have resulted in a loss of focus. Maharoof was rewarded with this wicket as a tired Tendulkar tried to drive it on the up, Sangakkara completed the rest by taking his 2nd catch of the day.

4-247 (Yuvraj Singh, 38.5 ovs) : More appropriate at Yuvraj lbw Hariharan then Yuvraj lbw Dilshan. A blunder from umpire Hariharan as the ball hit Yuvraj’s gloves before hitting the pads in his sweep shot, the umpire thought otherwise at that moment and Dilshan was the lucky bowler.

5-316 (Mahendra Singh Dhoni, 47.2 ovs) : Fernando bowled his knuckle slower delivery and Dhoni who had to go for everything in that situation was few seconds early into his shot. The ball went high in the air and a great running catch by Jayawardene stationed at mid off.

6-319 (Ajit Agarkar, 47.5 ovs) : Dravid gets that one to thirdman and the two batsmen almost collide and Agarkar had to run away from the charging Dravid. In the end Agarkar couldn’t make his ground as Atapattu completes the run out.

Fall of Sri Lankan wickets :

1-10 (Marvan Atapattu, 2.1 ovs) : Pathan’s inswinger sneaks past the bat pad gap created by Atappatu’s lose drive.

2-74 (Sanath Jayasuriya, 10.2 ovs) : Good change in length from Harbhajan. This time he pushes it with the arm and it’s fuller in length. Jayasuriya is a fraction of a second late in his drive and comfortably taken by the Indian skipper at short covers. Good captaincy to bring in Harbhajan in the 11th over itself and by not taking the 2nd powerplay.

3-76 (Kumar Sangakkara, 11.3 ovs) : Sehwag into the attack and that one is a short ball, Sangakkara looks to pull it but the ball stops onto the bat and it’s an easy return catch for Sehwag. The ball has started to grip the surface now. Sangakkara may not be having a good night’s sleep when he thinks about this dismissal of his!

4-88 (Upul Chandana, 14.1 ovs) : Looks to get down the track and tries to send Harbhajan into the stands but it’s the Turbanator who sends Chandana back in the dressing room. The batsman misses to make any contact with the ball and Dhoni completes the stumping.

5-88 (Russel Arnold, 14.4 ovs) : Harbhajan at his best as he gets past the defence of Arnold in a flash! A fantastic armer to put Russel on the wrong foot. Turbanator is doing his bhalle bhalle now!

6-118 (Mahela Jayawardene, 19.4 ovs) : Tries to play an over smart reverse sweep but pays heavy price for that! Gets his stumps cleaned up by Murali Kartik, his bat was nowhere near the ball with the kind of turn the finger spinner was extracting.

7-122 (Tillakaratne Dilshan, 21.2 ovs) : The ball is turning a lot and a dream delivery from Kartik, Dilshan stretches to play the forward defence and the ball turns enough to beat his shot and take the off stump!

8-126 (Farveez Maharoof, 23.5 ovs) : Tantalizing flight from Kartik gets Maharoof to lunge forward and the turn beats the bat and Dhoni whips the bails in a second. The third umpire has been called up to make a decision but the Indian were already celebrating and they were right Maharoof’s backfoot wasn’t back in time!
 

9-189 (Dilhara Lokuhettige, 33.5 ovs) : Sree Santh fires in an inswinger and Lokuhettige misreads the length and goes for his big shot. Stumps shattered to give Sree Santh his first wicket in International Cricket.

10-198 (Muttiah Muralitharan, 35.4 ovs) : Goes with his slog to hit over Murali Kartik’s head at mid off, succeeds it in hitting it over the fielder’s head. But it’s the fielder who is more successful as he jumps up instantly and pulls up a superb overhead catch! Sree Santh is happy with his 2nd wicket and so is India as they demolish Sri Lanka by a huge margin of 152 runs!

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