Sri Lanka won the toss & decided firstly to field

On Tuesday, at 12th 1-day Virender Sehwag’s 1st century since 2005 reserved India for a massive total in the 1st 1day international in opposition to Sri Lanka at Rajkot. Sehwag & Tendulkar’s partnership started with 153-run. Indiastarted on a cool note & scored just 19 runs in the beginning 5 overs but finally Virendra Sehwag broke the restraints in 6th over with as much as 3 boundaries.

Tendulkar hit boundary of Nuwan Kulasekara & Welegedera. Its Sehwag’s 36th 1-day 50 & his 4th against the Srilanka& Sachin’s 92nd fifties in ODI & his 16th against Lankans. India was cruising at 107 runs without any loss after fifteen over; here Sehwag was at 54 & Tendulkar at 52.

Sri Lanka must be wrong if they felt that the Powerplay phase was over. The introduction of Angelo Matthews’ entry in 16th over woke up Virender from his snooze.

Even as Sangakkara introduced the experienced Jayasuriya to stem the flow of runs, the equally experienced Tendulkar danced down the wicket and cleared the fence for his first maximum. Tendulkar’s 63-ball 69 runs comprises of 10 hits to the boundary.

The spectators watched the match without Muralitharan & Malinga, as both were injured.

In contrast India missed Yuvraj Singh who was having finger injury.

Sri Lanka gave a huge surprise when they announced that Jayasuriya would bat at No. seven & Tharanga would do opening with Dilshan.

India’s scenario boosted up with Zaheer & Harbhajan whilst Virat Kohli replaced Yuvraj.