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India maintains T20 supremacy winning a thriller

The reigning World Champions India recovered from a stunning middle order collapse to post a thrilling three wicket victory over Sri Lanka in their historic inaugural Twenty20 International worked off under lights at the R. Premadasa Stadium yesterday.

The Indians restricted the home side to 171 for 4 and then reached their target with three wickets and four balls to spare in this very first Twenty20 International played in Sri Lanka.

India were cruising along at one stage following a 45 run stand between the two left handers Suresh Raina and Yuvraj Singh. However Sri Lanka came back into the game through a splendid spell of bowling from leg spinner Malinga Bandara.

But India again recovered through their eighth wicket pair of brothers Irfan and Yusuf Pathan who held their nerves during the latter stages to put on 59 runs from just 25 deliveries.

Yusuf was simply amazing as he remained unbeaten on 22 from ten deliveries and Irfan on 33 from 16 balls.

Earlier skipper Tillekeratne Dilshan led from the front with his maiden Twenty20 half century to help Sri Lanka reach 171 for 4 from their 20 overs after they had won the toss and elected to bat first. The dashing opener launched a calculated attack on the experienced Indian bowlers to hit a top score of 61 from just 47 deliveries.

Dilshan who was dropped by Irfan Pathan from the bowling off Zaheer Khan in the very first over took full advantage to take Sri Lanka into a position of strength with some clean hitting before making his exit in the 17th over.

Dilshan reached his fifty while stroking consecutive boundaries from the bowling of Ishant Sharma who in fact conceded 17 runs from that over. The Sri Lankan captain also put on 45 runs for the fourth wicket along with Chamara Kapugedera who made a breezy 16 from just nine deliveries.

Sri Lanka of course were well set for a much bigger total at the start when Sanath Jayasuriya set the stadium ablaze with some power hitting from the very first over. The dynamic left hander was threatening to take the game away from the Indians before he was undone by a stunning catch from Ishant Sharma.

Jayasuriya collected 18 runs from the fourth over bowled by Ishant Sharma while hoisting two sixes on either side of the wicket during a brilliant opening stand of 59 runs from just 5.5 overs.

Sri Lanka were maintaining a run rate of over ten runs at this stage of the innings but they somewhat lost their momentum after the dismissal of Jayasuriya. However Chamara Silva joined skipper Dilshan and the pair brought up Sri Lanka’s third fifty from only 23 deliveries.

The Lankans of course failed to add the finishing touches with the pair of Chamara Silva and Kaushalya Weeraratne been able to collect just three singles from the last over of the innings.

SRI LANKA
T. Dilshan c Raina b I. Sharma			61
S. Jayasuriya c I. Sharma b I. Pathan		33
J. Mubarak c and b Y. Pathan			13
C. Kapugedera c Sehwag b Y. Pathan		16
C. Silva not out				21
K. Weeraratne not out				10
Extras: (b1, lb10, w6)				17
Total (for four wickets)			171
Fall of wickets: 1-59 (Jayasuriya), 2-87 (Mubarak), 
		 3-107 (Kapugedera), 4-152 (Dilshan).

Bowling: Zaheer 4-0-34-0, 
	 I. Sharma 4-0-40-1 (w2), 
	 I. Pathan 4-0-34-1 (w2), 
	 Y. Pathan 4-0-23-2, 
	 Jadeja 4-0-29-0 (w2).

Overs: 20

INDIA
G. Gambhir c Weeraratne b Thushara		13
V. Sehwag run out				 1
S. Raina c de Saram b Bandara	 		35
Y. Singh c Dilshan b Mubarak			32
MS Dhoni b Bandara				13
R. Sharma c Mubarak b Jayasuriya 		 4
R. Jadeja b Bandara				 5
Y. Pathan not out				22
I. Pathan not out				33
EXTRAS: (lb2, w14)				16
TOTAL (for seven wickets)			174

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-14 (Sehwag), 2-14 (Gambhir), 3-81 (Y. Singh), 
4-99 (Raina), 5-108 (Dhoni), 6-110 (R. Sharma), 7-115 (Jadeja).

BOWLING: Malinga 3.2-0-38-0 (w2), 
	 Thushara 3-0-27-1 (w3), 
	 Fernando 4-0-44-0 (w8), 
	 Weeraratne 1-0-12-0, 
	 Mubarak 1-0-9-1, 
	 Bandara 4-0-32-3 (w1), 
	 Jayasuriya 3-0-10-1.

OVERS: 19.2

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