Sri Lanka vs India | Asia Cup : Final | Dambulla | 24/06/10

[On_the_up]

Around 90 mins to go, Sri Lanka start as favourites to win their 3rd Asia cup in a row.

Teams from Cricinfo:

India (possible) : 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Dinesh Karthik, 3 Rohit Sharma, 4 MS Dhoni (capt & wk), 5 Virat Kohli, 6 Suresh Raina, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Praveen Kumar, 10 Zaheer Khan, 11 Ashish Nehra.

Sri Lanka (possible): 1 Upul Tharanga, 2 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 3 Kumar Sangakkara (capt & wk), 4 Mahela Jayawardene, 5 Thilina Kandamby/ Thilan Samaraweera, 6 Angelo Mathews, 7 Chamara Kapugedera, 8 Farveez Maharoof/Chanaka Welegedera, 9 Nuwan Kulasekara, 10 Lasith Malinga, 11 Muttiah Muralitharan.

 

[Paradox]

Sri Lanka to win.

If only they had Mendis, he'd probably take a 6-for again

 

[Howzat]

India.

 

[Sakss]

dont wory herath wil do that today

 

[Sir john]

hoping for a good contest

 

[Howzat]

dont wory herath wil do that today

India does not fall to left arm spinners unlike some other teams.

 

[Sri Lankan Lion]

Come on Sri Lanka...

 

[Afridi_Fan]

India wins the toss and will bat 1st.

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Bhajji and Nehra in for Ojha and Dhinda.

 

[T20_Cricket]

India wins the toss and will bat 1st.

Lucky Dhoni win the toss

 

[cric_fan82]

A good toss to win

 

[Rizie]

Come On Sri Lankans

I have bet 20 euros on Sri Lanka en Aussies

 

[jattafridi]

India won the toss and chose to bat

 

[abdul2009]

I Guess india will win this one, Especially after winning the most important toss.

SL have to really play out of their skins here to have a tiny chance

 

[IAJ]

I Guess india will win this one, Especially after winning the most important toss.

SL have to really play out of their skins here to have a tiny chance

As usual Dhoni is lucky with the toss in important matches. But if Lanka can bowl them out for under 250, they have a chance here.

 

[jattafridi]

India look to win first Asia Cup in 15 yrs

 

[jattafridi]

Come on Sri lanka
atleast take 2 wickets in first 5 overs :Sami

 

[dinakar]

woww.. Gambhi got two lives in back to back balls!! he should get a big score now on, else it's criminal!!

 

[cric_fan82]

Come on Sri lanka
atleast take 2 wickets in first 5 overs :Sami

Pakistan is already out of the tournament dude

 

[jattafridi]

woww.. Gambhi got two lives in back to back balls!! he should get a big score now on, else it's criminal!!

luck is with india

 

[jattafridi]

Pakistan is already out of the tournament dude

I know i am supporting sri lanka
they gonna lose too

 

[jattafridi]

not good running but good fielding out
india 38-1

 

[T20_Cricket]

6.1 Kulasekara to Gambhir, 2 runs, OUT, 129.8 kph, Gambhir is run out His luck runs out. Finally

 

[dinakar]

what a moronic call from Karthik

 

[abdul2009]

Arrogant Gambeer is done and dusted!!
Well done Karthik

 

[T20_Cricket]

Now I can Say Sri Lanka can win

 

[Fawad2010]

SL fielding has been ordinary so far.,.
Even that run-out was karthik's fault!

 

[abdul2009]

Now I can Say Sri Lanka can win

lol

 

[abdul2009]

KD counter attacks....

 

[Fawad2010]

Consective boundaries for karthik, 3 4's so far in this over, maharouf losing plot here

 

[jattafridi]

three fours for Karthik

india 51-1
after 8 overs

 

[Fawad2010]

I guess Karthik feels obligated to pick up the pace after that tame run-out. ghambir would have done the same.

 

[jattafridi]

india
after 9 overs 53-1

 

[Fawad2010]

Sanga needs to introduce the first bowling change, maybe mathews or malinga. Karthik has picked up on maharoof. In two overs, karthik has hit him four times for 4

 

[tdigi]

"intelligent operator"

 

[jattafridi]

mathews replacing maharoof
good bowling change

 

[jattafridi]

bring murli next over sanga

 

[jattafridi]

good bowling by mathews
maiden over

 

[Fawad2010]

Maiden over first up for Matthews. Bowling change deserves credit

 

[Fawad2010]

First run taken in almost 15 balls.
India has slowed down a bit. At one point run rate was over 7

 

[T20_Cricket]

lol

two runs in last 22 balls
Ghambhir can score quickly.

 

[jattafridi]

Excellent Bowling From Mathews

 

[jattafridi]

kohli playing good innings for sri lanka

 

[Fawad2010]

Matthews just had a nightmare over, 15 runs off it, maharoof replaces kula

 

[jattafridi]

On a flat track

India
After 15 overs 83-1
Drinks

 

[Fawad2010]

SL needs a wicket now to stop Indian progress. If they don't stop them soon enough, 300 is on the card and under the lights that will be very hard

 

[abdul2009]

Match is out of SL hands now.


Dhobi was lucky with the toss

 

[jattafridi]

From here I am supporting india now

 

[jattafridi]

Come on india make 300 plus

 

[Sakss]

malinga gets a wicket

 

[pakroyals]

kohli gone

come on lanka..

 

[rajachoudhary50]

Maharoof looks like he has done "Henry Olango" in Sharjah against India."

 

[jattafridi]

today sri lankan fielding is not good

 

[pakroyals]

From here I am supporting india now

if dhoni stays for some time, then mite even do the same ..

 

[Friend786]

will karthik going to convert this 50 into a hundred?

 

[jattafridi]

will karthik going to convert this 50 into a hundred?

i think he should its good batting conditions

 

[Friend786]

malinga bowling at good pace !

 

[jattafridi]

india
After 21 overs 108-2

 

[hashbb]

regular wickets should peg India back

 

[Friend786]

a hatrick from malinga will do the job nicely for sri lanka

 

[jattafridi]

6 runs for dhoni

 

[Friend786]

six from dhoni

 

[Friend786]

that was a great hit

 

[jattafridi]

india
after 23 overs 122-2 CURRENT RR 5.3

 

[jattafridi]

Four Runs

 

[Friend786]

4 runs

 

[Friend786]

india
after 23 overs 122-2 CURRENT RR 5.3

that run rate will improve immensely in the batting powerplay if dhoni stays !

 

[jattafridi]

that run rate will improve immensely in the batting powerplay if dhoni stays !

MY PREDICTION
INDIA
AFTER 50 OVERS 304-6

 

[Sultanofswing]

Ind - Sl match is a cancer to cricket. man as much as i love cricket, i hate this 2 country playing again and again.

 

[jattafridi]

Finally karthik is out

 

[Friend786]

again karthik didn't convert his fifty into 100

 

[jattafridi]

India
AFTER 29 OVERS 148-3

 

[jattafridi]

again karthik didn't convert his fifty into 100

MAYBE DHONI GONNA MAKE 100

 

[jattafridi]

another misfield 4 runs

 

[Sakss]

India does not fall to left arm spinners unlike some other teams.

but they do fall to part time spinners like kandamby )

 

[jattafridi]

big wicket dhoni is out

 

[Cracket]

There goes Captain Cool. Raina/Rohit need a big fast innings from one of them if we're going to win this.

 

[T20_Cricket]

Now then,Can Mahroof Repeat

 

[dinakar]

this kind of lazy batting boils my blood

 

[dinakar]

Kandambi bowls either full toss or wide balls only. still we managed to gift him two important wickets of settled batsmen.