Scorecard : India v Sri Lanka, 5th ODI, Pallekele : 4 Aug 2012.

Match : India v Sri Lanka, 5th of 5 ODI Micromax series on India's tour of Sri Lanka 2012.
Venue/Date : Pallekele International stadium, 4 August 2012.
Debut : none.
Toss : India, elected to bat.
Result : India won by 20 runs and hence the series 4-1. India won 1st ODI by 21 runs, Sri Lanka won 2nd ODI by 9 wickets, India won 3rd ODI by 5 wickets and 4th ODI by 6 wickets.
Man of the match : Irfan Pathan.
Man of the series : Virat Kohli.
Umpires : Bruce Oxenford (Australia) + T Wijewardene (Sri Lanka).

Head to head

139th India v Sri Lanka one day international it was and now, India have won 75 while Sri Lanka stay behind at 52 with 1 tie and 11 no results. In Sri Lanka, two teams clashed for the 56th time and visitors registered their 23rd win besides losing 27 and 6 no results.

Match summary

20 runs short of the target with 26 balls remaining, result of the match may seem Sri Lankans were in the chance and it wouldn't be too wrong either but the fact is, Indian dominated the match throughout and were reackless to let Lankans come so close at the end. Home team batted freely today against their tough target despite losing wickets but Jeevan Mendis and Lahiru Thirimanne were allowed to built a century stand by visitors that the match got close at the end.

Earlier, Indians elected to bat and found themselves flowing freely with Ajinkya Rahane gelling well with Gautam Gambhir who looked in fine form. Virat Kohli matched Gambhir stroke per stroke but didn't last long, making way for Rohit Sharma who registered another poor innings. Nuwan Pradeep bowled quick and accurately during the middle overs. Manoj Tiwary may consider himself lucky to score a fifty but he showed good timing as well, raising a century stand with Gambhir before MS Dhoni took over with Irfan Pathan, stretching Indians almost to three hundred total.

India innings (elected to bat)
Batsman	?	R	B	4s	6s
Gautam Gambhir	c Malinga b Senanayake	88	99	7	0
Ajinkya Rahane	lbw b Perera	9	17	1	0
Virat Kohli	lbw b Pradeep	23	35	2	0
Rohit Sharma	b Pradeep	4	9	1	0
Manoj Tiwary	c Perera b Malinga	65	68	6	0
Suresh Raina	c Thirimanne b Malinga	0	1	0	0
MS Dhoni	c Chandimal b Malinga	58	38	8	1
Irfan Pathan	not out	29	28	2	0
R Ashwin	not out	2	5	0	0
Zaheer Khan
Ashok Dinda
Extra :	16 (lbyes=10, wides=6)
Total :	294 runs in 50 overs for 7 wicket. RR = ( 5.88 ).
Fall of wickets : 1-29 (Rahane, 5.1 ov), 2-77 (Kohli, 14.3 ov), 3-87 (Sharma, 16.6 ov), 4-197 (Tiwary, 37.1 ov), 5-197 (Raina, 37.2 ov), 6-213 (Gambhir, 38.6 ov), 7-290 (Dhoni, 48.5 ov)

Bowler	Overs	Maiden	Runs	W	Extra
Lasith Malinga	10	0	64	3	1 wide
Thisara Perera	10	0	53	1	3 wides
Angelo Mathews	5	0	29	0
Nuwan Pradeep	10	0	63	2
Sachithra Senanayake	10	0	50	1	1 wide
Jeevan Mendis	5	0	25	0

Sri Lankan innings (target = 295 from 50 overs)
Batsman	?	R	B	4s	6s
Upul Tharanga	c Rahane b Pathan	31	21	4	0
Tillakaratne Dilshan	c Zaheer b Pathan	0	3	0	0
Larhiru Thirimanne	run out (Kohli + Zaheer + Dhoni)	77	96	5	3
Dinesh Chandimal	lbw b Dinda	8	8	2	0
Angelo Mathews	run out (Tiwary)	13	16	2	0
Chamara Kapugedera	lbw b Zaheer	9	7	1	0
Jeevan Mendis	c Dhoni b Pathan	72	88	6	0
Thisara Perera	c Kohli b Pathan	18	19	2	0
Sachithra Senanayake	b Pathan	7	7	0	0
Lasith Malinga	c Raina b Dinda	10	9	2	0
Nuwan Pradeep	not out	0	0	0	0
Extra :	29 (byes=2, lbyes=14, wides=13)
Total :	274 runs in 45.4 overs for 10 wicket. RR = ( 6.00 ).
Fall of wickets : 1-13 (Dilshan, 1.3 ov), 2-61 (Tharanga, 7.5 ov), 3-74 (Chandimal, 10.1 ov), 4-89 (Mathews, 13.2 ov), 5-102 (Kapugedera, 15.1 ov), 6-204 (Thirimanne, 35.5 ov), 7-252 (Perera, 42.3 ov), 8-256 (Mendis, 42.6 ov), 9-266 (Senanayake, 44.6 ov), 10-274 (Malinga, 45.4 ov)

Bowler	Overs	Maiden	Runs	W	Extra
Zaheer Khan	9	1	53	1	5 wides
Irfan Pathan	10	0	61	5	4 wide
Ashok Dinda	7.4	0	55	2
Virat Kohli	1	0	3	0
R Ashwin	9	0	37	0
Rohit Sharma	6	0	23	0
Suresh Raina	2	0	12	0
Manoj Tiwary	1	0	14	0

Source: http://itsonlycricket.com/entry/3361/

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