Suresh Raina’s century for India against South Africa at St. Lucia ensured that the Indians maintained their 100% record in the ICC World T20 and advanced to the Super Eights.

Batting first, after Graeme Smith had won the toss and decided to field first, India lost Murali Vijay in the very first over, while Dinesh Karthik scored only 16 before he was on his way. At the end of the Powerplay, India was 34/2 and looked like they were in a big enough hole.

However, it was the third wicket stand between Yuvraj Singh and Suresh Raina that brought the Indians back on track. Yuvraj, who had looked ungainly during the IPL looked to be finding his touch, while Raina continued from where he had left off in the IPL and began to pick up the singles and rotate the strike.

Once the pair had got their eye in, it was in the last five overs that the Indians accelerated. 75 came off the last five, as Raina got to a smacking century off only 59 balls. India, who had looked like struggling to get to 150 at one stage, ended with 186/5 in the 20 overs.

Chasing the rather large score of 187 for a win, South Africa opened with Loots Bosman and Jacques Kallis, which was strange, given that the captain Smith was there as well. Bosman failed to get going against the spinners and perished while trying to hit the ball out of the ground in the fifth over, and Kallis and Graeme Smith also struggled to get going.

It was only after the tenth over that Smith started to get a move on, and then Kallis got to his fifty and smoked a couple of sixes. However, with the asking rate going up by every over, the side looked to go after the bowling, but only managed to start losing their wickets in the process.

Smith was run-out, and this was followed by Kallis, Morkel and in the end, AB de Villiers threw his bat around for a 15-ball 31 before getting caught and with that went South Africa’s chances. Raina was the obvious choice for the man of the match.

KKR thrash RCB by seven wickets

Bangalore lost four of their very important batsmen in the early overs. While Shreevats Goswami was departed for mere 8 runs; thanks to Charl Langeveldt who got him caught by Ishant Sharma; Manish Pandey, on the other, was mercilessly bowled out by Angelo Matthews for a duck.

Later, Virat Kohli’s stay on the pitch was too cut short by Murali Kartik, who got him caught by Matthews at the long on for just two runs. Eoin Morgan too failed to add much weight to his team’s score as a smart delivery by Kartik bowled him out for 10 runs, thus reducing Bangalore to 35/4.

However, the Vijay Mallya-owned team got some respite in their innings, thanks to Jacques Kallis and Rahul Dravid, whose occasional boundaries helped them cross the 70-run mark.

The scenario, however, did not please Matthews as he claimed three important wickets in quick successions in the later half of the first innings, to again give jitters to Bangalore. First, he broke the Kallis-Dravid partnership by bowling out the latter for 21 runs. He then struck again to dismiss, Robin Uthappa (20) and Roelof van der Merwe (1) in the 18th over, to reduce again halt Bangalore’s momentum.

Kallis, however, remained the lone warrior on the field as he tried scored a hard-earned 65 runs, to end his team’s innings at 135/7.

Kolkata: It was an easy victory for Kolkata Knight Riders as stupendous innings by Manoj Tiwary and Brad Hodge guided the team to a 7-wicket win against Bangalore Royal Challengers in the fourth encounter of the Indian Premier League season three, here on Sunday.

Sourav Ganguly could have not asked for more in front of his and his team’s home ground as Tiwary and Hodge helped Kolkata Knight Riders reach their target of 136 with 4 balls still to spare.

Everything seemed to be going in favour of Kolkata from the very beginning; first they won the toss and did what they had to, that is, bowl first; and then, the bowlers ruptured through the top and middle order of Bangalore Royal Challengers, barring Kallis, literally forcing them to struggle for a respectable score.

Kolkata Knight Riders kept their hold firm as Jacques Kallis’ lone heroics somehow helped Bangalore post a decent 135/7

But, Tiwary and Hodge made the 136-run target chase look very meager. Opening the innings for Kolkata Knight Riders, both the batmen displayed fireworks from the very beginning, giving out a very clear message; Kolkata will just accept a victory in front of their home crowd!

Both, Tiwary (50) and Hodge (50), did not allow Bangalore Royal Challengers’ fielders to rest even a bit as some sparkling hitting by both the players took Kolkata Knight Riders’ past the 100-run mark. Both, Tiwary and Hodge, claimed their IPL fifties in the process; this being the fourth for Hodge.

Bangalore, however, could later breathe a sigh of relief as they finally clinched the prized wickets of Tiwary and Hogde. But again, the wickets came too for them as the Knight Riders had already caused much damage. Hodge’s dismissal left Kolkata just 24 runs away from victory; a formality which was later very comfortably and happily completed by skipper Sourav Ganguly (23).

Mumbai, March 12 — Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) won opening match of IPL III beating defending champions Deccan Chargers by 11 runs. KKR scored 161 for 4 in 20 novers. Top scorer Angelo Mathews made 65 runs. Deccan Chargers made 150 runs for 7 in 20 overs.


Mathews and Shah put up an unbeaten century partnership for KKR with 68 not out and 58 not out respectively.
Mathews displayed spectacular five fours and four sixes in 46-ball innings and Shah struck three fours and three sixes in 46-ball that he played.

KKR Fall of Wickets:
1-0(Manoj Tiwary, 0.1 ov.),2-0(Sourav Ganguly, 0.4 ov.),3-31(Cheteshwar Pujara, 4.4 ov.),4-31(Brad Hodge, 5.1 ov.)
Deccan Chargers Fall of Wickets:
1-61(VVS Laxman, 5.5 ov.),2-99(Adam Gilchrist, 11.1 ov.),3-102(Herschelle Gibbs, 12.2 ov.),4-116(Andrew Symonds, 14.1 ov.),5-128(Rohit Sharma, 16.2 ov.),6-141(Anirudh Singh, 18.0 ov.),7-142(Chaminda Vaas , 18.3 ov.)

South Africa beat a second-string young Indian team by 90 runs in the third and final ODI in Ahmedabad, but India won the Micromax Mobile Cup 2010 2-1. Sachin Tendulkar was declared 'Man of the Series' by the virtue of his unbeaten double century in the Gwalior ODI.

Kallis and Villiers added unbeaten 173 runs for the 3rd wicket. Kallis remained unbeaten on 104 off 94 balls with 5 boundaries and 3 sixes. It was his 17th ODI hundred.



AB de Villiers batted superbly and completed his 6th ODI hundred off 58 balls. He remained unbeaten on 102 off 59 balls with 11 boundaries and 3 sixes. Villiers had also scored an unbeaten century in the Gwalior ODI.

For South Africa, Dale Steyn and Lonwabo Tsotsobe took 3 wickets each. Roelof van der Merwe and Johan Botha took 2 wickets each. AB de Villiers was declared 'Man of the Match'. The 'Man of the Series' award went to Sachin Tendulkar. In his absence, Mahendra Singh Dhoni received the luxurious 'Volvo S80' car, which was given as the 'Man of the Series' award.

Sachin sets world record; hits double-ton

Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar today created a new world record, he became the first batsman to score a double-century in the one day (50-over) international cricket match. The previous record holder was Saeed Anwar of Pakistan having scored 194 runs against India.

Sachin scored 200 runs from 147 deliveries against South Africa in the second match of the ODI series, played at Gwalior.

In the process, he also scored his 46th ODI hundred. Team India scored 401 for the loss of three wickets, after winning the toss and electing to bat.

Tendulkar had reached to 100 off just 90 balls, and thereafter accelerated his scoring rate.

Dhoni hit a smashing 50 towards the end of the innings, he was 68 not out from 35 balls.

India vs South Africa 2010 1st ODI Game

India won the first game of the ICC ODI at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium on Sunday.
“When there are so many runs needed and when the number eight and nine batsmen are at the crease, you don’t really expect your best bowlers to get hit the way they did,” India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said.
“Credit must go to the batsmen, but I’m sure we would do better in the next game if the conditions are the same,” he added.
Here are the highlights for the India vs South Africa 2010 1st ODI game:
India
India: 50 runs in 8.2 overs (52 balls), Extras 3
Power Play 2: Overs 10.1 – 15.0
2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 53 balls (V Sehwag 22, KD Karthik 26, Ex 2)
Drinks: India – 89/2 in 14.2 overs (KD Karthik 31)
India: 100 runs in 16.6 overs (104 balls), Extras 8
India: 150 runs in 26.4 overs (163 balls), Extras 9
Drinks: India – 170/4 in 31.0 overs (V Kohli 17, SK Raina 22)
5th Wicket: 50 runs in 66 balls (V Kohli 19, SK Raina 28, Ex 3)
India: 200 runs in 34.4 overs (215 balls), Extras 13
Power Play 3: Overs 38.1 – 43.0
SK Raina: 50 off 56 balls (5 x 4, 1 x 6)
India: 250 runs in 41.5 overs (262 balls), Extras 17
Innings Break: India – 298/9 in 50.0 overs (A Nehra 16, S Sreesanth 0)
South Africa
South Africa: 50 runs in 7.3 overs (47 balls), Extras 4
1st Wicket: 50 runs in 47 balls (LL Bosman 22, HH Gibbs 25, Ex 4)
Power Play 2: Overs 10.1 – 15.0
Drinks: South Africa – 91/2 in 16.0 overs (JH Kallis 17, AB de Villiers 14)
South Africa: 100 runs in 16.6 overs (104 balls), Extras 4
JH Kallis: 50 off 60 balls (3 x 4)
South Africa: 150 runs in 29.5 overs (181 balls), Extras 4
Drinks: South Africa – 179/6 in 34.0 overs (JH Kallis 63, J Botha 10)
Power Play 3: Overs 36.1 – 41.0
South Africa: 200 runs in 39.4 overs (241 balls), Extras 10
South Africa: 250 runs in 45.5 overs (278 balls), Extras 11
9th Wicket: 50 runs in 32 balls (WD Parnell 27, DW Steyn 27, Ex 1)

Harbhajan takes five wickets as India win

Feb 18th, 2010 (Kolkata) – The Indian cricket team will be on No.1 ranking in Tests with this win on South Africa. The series has been nothing but eventful with fortunes swinging from one side to the other with the series being settled at 1-1. South Africa made 296 runs in their first innings & 290 in second innings where India made 643 and declared. This way India has won the Match with big success by an innings win.
Amla, as he has done throughout the series did what he does best, playing almost flawlessly and with immense concentration to almost save the game for SA. In the end the credit has to go to the Indians for patiently probing away on a wicket that didn’t resemble a day 5 track. Hashim Amla is the Man of the match as well as the Man of the series, for scoring a staggering 494 runs in the series. He was dismissed just once in this series, and ended it with 3 centuries.
Harbhajan, who has come in for a lot of criticism from all quarters prior to this match has silenced everyone with his match winning spell. In the absence of Zaheer Khan the responsibility of supporting Bhajji was taken over by Amit Mishra who bowled superbly, bringing all his variations into play, picking up 3 wickets, none more important than Kallis’s wicket last evening.
Just when it looked like Morkel and Amla would steer them home Harbhajan produced a beauty to trap Morne Morkel plumb in front to win the match for India. Never before have we seen a test match of this sorts in India since the 2001 series against Australia. The sort of Test match where I am sure the entire country were holding on to their breath as India clinched a cliff hanger!

India won the second test to level series at 1-1 and retain No. 1 with the Harbhajan wicket of morkel.

Kolkata Test : Fourth day’s highlights : Rain curtails day play - Visitors end the day's play with 115 for 3

India’s 643 for 6 declared in this test represent the 21st occasion of India posting a team total of 600 plus runs in a test innings against various oppositions. It is the second occasion of India posting a total in excess of 600 plus runs against South Africa. The other occasion was at Chennai in March when India totaled 627 all out

Thus India’s 643 for 6 declared in this test represent the highest team total posted by India against South Africa.

India’s 643 for 6 declared in this test represent the 12th occasion of India posting a team total of 600 plus runs in a test innings against various oppositions on home soil.

India’s 643 for 6 declared in this test represent the fourth occasion of India posting a team total of 600 plus runs in a test innings against various oppositions at Kolkata. The other three occasions are – 657 for 7d against Australia in Mar 2001, 633 for 5d against Australia in Mar 1998 and 616 for 5d against Pakistan in Nov 2007

VVS Laxman completed 1000 runs at Eden Gardens, Kolkata when he was on 102 during the course of his innings of 143 not out. At the end of India’s first innings, his run aggregate stood at 1041. His feat provides the 64th occasion of a batsman aggregating 1000 runs at a specific venue.

VVS Laxman became the second Indian cricketer to have scored 1000 runs at a specific venue. His feat provides the third such occasion. SM Gavaskar has achieved the feat at two specific venue – at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai {1122} and at Chepauk, Chennai {1018}

MS Dhoni completed 1000 runs as captain when he was on 126 during the course of his knock of 132 not out. At the end of India’s innings, his run aggregate stood at 1006. He became the eighth Indian captain to aggregate 1000 runs. Other seven are SM Gavaskar{3449}, M Azharuddin {2856}, SC Ganguly {2562}, MAK Pataudi {2424}, SR Tendulkar {2054}, R Dravid {2054} and N Kapil Dev {1364}

MS Dhoni’s 1006 runs as captain has come when he was the captain-cum-wicket keeper. He became the second captain-cum-wicket keeper in the annals of test cricket to aggregate 1000 plus runs. The other captain-cum-wicket keeper to achieve the feat was A Flower of Zimbabwe who has an aggregate of 1232 runs.

MS Dhoni became the third wicket keeper batsman to score a hundred at Eden Gardens, Kolkata with his 132 not out in this game. The other two are Kamran Akmal of Pakistan {119 vs India in Nov 2007} and CL Walcott of West Indies {108 vs India in Dec 1948}

Thus MS Dhoni not only became the first Indian wicket keeper batsman to score a hundred at Eden Gardens, Kolkata but also posted the highest score by a wicket keeper batsman at the venue by scoring 132 not out in this test

His 132 not out represent the highest individual score by an Indian wicket keeper batsman at Eden Gardens. The previous best was credited to KD Karthik who had made 93 vs Pakistan in Mar 2005.

VVS Laxman registered his fourth hundred at Kolkata when he scored 143 not out in this test. The other three hundreds are – 281 vs Australia in Mar 2001, 154* vs West Indies in Oct 2002 and 112* vs Pakistan in Nov 2007

Only M Azharuddin has scored more hundreds than VVS Laxman – five hundreds – at Eden Gardens – 110 vs England in Dec 1984, 141 vs Pakistan in Feb 1987, 182 vs England in Jan 1993, 109 vs South Africa in Nov 1996 and 163* vs Australia in Mar 1998.

India 342 for 5 (Sehwag 165, Tendulkar 106) lead South Africa 296 (Amla 114, Petersen 100, Zaheer 4-90) by 46 runs

The Sehwag storm struck South Africa with full force and pretty much blew everything in its way to a 13th 150-plus score. Amid the mayhem, it was easy to forget the cool, pleasant breeze that was Sachin Tendulkar's 92nd international century - his fourth in four Tests. They added 249 runs for the third wicket and kept South Africa wicketless for 57.4 overs but, once the two quietened, South Africa struck back with three quick wickets to retrieve some of the momentum in the match.

Sehwag rattled them with a vicious assault on the new ball, put behind him the Gautam Gambhir run-out and, after a brief quiet, punished them some more. His 87-ball hundred would have been even faster but for a relative lull of 10 off 21 balls. Tendulkar enjoyed playing in the shadow of Sehwag's strike-rate, kept scoring at an even pace and, unlike Sehwag, didn't give South Africa a single chance.

Two critical moments in the first session determined the flow of the game. Sehwag - 43 off 21 then - had the fastest Test fifty and a few other records in sight when he ran Gambhir out, and he chastised himself by playing disciplined cricket for a while. Around the same time Morne Morkel indulged in some reverse-rattling, took out M Vijay, troubled Sehwag with accurate bouncers and induced an edge only to see JP Duminy - at first slip because of the finger injury to Graeme Smith - drop him on 47. Sehwag could have gone at an even more frenetic rate but for the run-out. South Africa could have been in control had Sehwag fallen then.

Sehwag's onslaught started when Dale Steyn failed to get any swing. Somehow the ball didn't come out right, the seam wobbled, and Nagpur was a distant memory. When there is no swing, Steyn's pace is his biggest enemy so today the faster they came the faster they went. Nor did he get the Morkel's bounce, which meant that when Steyn went for the ribs, Sehwag could easily flick it past midwicket.

The storm started with that gentle little flick and then came three boundaries in three balls in the third over: placed over point, whipped to square leg, and slashed past point. Morkel got the treatment in his third over too: three boundaries through the off side, one off a delivery that clocked 152.6kmph. Wayne Parnell replaced Morkel immediately, and immediately he was carved for a four and a six into the rubble of a stand under reconstruction.

The next ball Sehwag faced he hit an off-drive for four, and then came the run-out. It was time for drinks and Sehwag threw away his protective gear in disgust. That was when Morkel came back but his charged-up, accurate burst seemed to have ended with that dropped chance.

When Sehwag came back from lunch, the cautious approach had been thrown out and he was blazing away again. For company he had Tendulkar. If you were a bowler, there was nowhere to hide.

Sehwag showed that to Steyn early in his second spell. Punch, whip, steer, 10 runs off three deliveries. Steyn to Sehwag then: 11 balls, 25 runs, five boundaries. Tendulkar joined the fun, defending everything full but steering Steyn for two boundaries. Paul Harris, meanwhile, didn't have the luxury of a big score, bowled round the stumps, and was slog-swept and hit inside out by Sehwag for a six and a four.

Back came Morkel, the best bowler on the day, to be given the worst sort of treatment a best bowler can be given. This time Tendulkar took the lead. Two fullish deliveries, two clips to the on side, one to the left of square leg, one to the right. In his next over, he gave Sehwag width with three deep fielders on the off side. One to the left of deep point, and one to the right. Sehwag 89 off 72, Tendulkar 38 off 61. India were 165 for 2 in 30.2 overs, with the bonus of South Africa's two best bowlers negated.

In between the hard-hitting there was some toying, with paddles from outside off, reverse-sweeps, clips past midwicket as Sehwag reached his hundred and Tendulkar his fifty without further incident. Harris eventually started bowling over the wicket, and was called wide 12 times because, unlike in Nagpur, he was not looking to get wickets here.

The runs slowed down post tea. When Sehwag was 128, AB de Villiers, the replacement keeper, missed an easy stumping. By the time Duminy made good his mistake, getting Sehwag in his first over, it might just have been too late. Not quite. Harris went round the wicket in the next over - inexplicably it took him until the Sehwag dismissal to do so - and got a false shot out of Tendulkar.

Steyn came back right away, got his swing back, and beat S Badrinath in the man-versus-boy contest. VVS Laxman struggled to fight the momentum and edged Harris in the next over. It flew wide of slip, the light deteriorated and India ended the day retaining the upper hand despite that late South African surge.

SR Tendulkar registered his 100th fifty when he scored exact 100 in this game. It was his 46hth hundred. Coupled with 54 half centuries, he scored his 100th fifty to become the only batsman in the annals of test cricket to register 100 fifties.

SR Tendulkar with his 100 in this game scored his 20th hundred at home. He became the third batsman in the annals of test cricket to register 20 plus hundreds on home soil. Other two are – RT Ponting {21} and ML Hayden {21}. ST Tendulkar became the first Indian batsman to register 20 hundreds on home soil.

SR Tendulkar registered his 44th fifty on home soil with his 100 in this test {20 C plus 24 C}. RT Ponting {54}, JH Kallis {49}, AR Border {48} and SR Waugh {45} are the four batsmen who have score more fifties than SR Tendulkar on home soil.

SR Tendulkar’s 100 at home in this test was in a losing cause. There are the other two occasions when his home test hundreds have gone in vain which are - 177 vs Australia at Bangalore in Mar 1998 and 136 vs Pakistan at Chennai in Jan 1999

SR Tendulkar and M Azharuddin have equal number of home test hundreds in a losing cause. Azharuddin’s hundreds which were in vain are – 105 vs England at Chennai in Jan 1985, 109 vs South Africa at Kolkata in Nov 1996 and 102 vs South Africa at Bangalore in Mar 2000.

amla score double ton

NAGPUR - Hashim Amla struck a double century as south africa piled agony on india, reaching 477 for five at tea, on the second day of the first cricket Test here Sunday.

Amla was unbeaten on 215 with Mark Boucher (0) at the other end.

AB de villiers(53) and JP Duminy (9) were dismissed in the second session in which South Africa added 98 runs.

Earlier, jacques Kallis was dismissed for 173 before lunch, ending a 340-run stand between Kallis and Amla.

Amla and De Villiers then scored 108 runs before the latter gave his wicket to part time spinner Virender Sehwag.

Amla showed sound temperament and application while playing the spinners, who were getting considerable turn and bounce from the track.

Apart from a couple of run out chances and a dropped catch of Amla, the South Africans coasted to a big first innings total without any trouble.

Amla’s 215 came in 410 balls with the help of 20 fours.

De Villiers’ struck five fours in his 88-ball knock.

In the morning session Kallis, who led the South African recovery after early blows Saturday, was dismissed by Harbhajan Singh caught by Murali Vijay at forward short leg.

Resuming at overnight 159, Kallis scored another 14 runs before bat-padding a Harbhajan delivery.

Kallis struck 15 fours and two sixes in his 351-ball knock.

Pakistan's tour of Australia has ended in defeat and disgrace, after stand-in captain Shahid Afridi was banned for two T20 internationals for ball tampering after he amazingly bit the ball during the two wicket defeat to Australia at the WACA.

Afridi was caught by TV cameras biting down on the ball more than once as Pakistan struggled to force the first win of an already tumultuous tour.

After being charged and admitting ball tampering, Afridi was ruled out of the T20 clash at the MCG on Friday, and another on top.

With rumours swirling that the man he replaced, Mohammad Yousuf, had not played because of a fall-out with coach Intikhab Alam, Afridi said he had disgraced himself in his attempt to help his bowlers.

"Actually I wanted to help out my bowlers,” Shahid Afridi told Geo News.

Match referee Ranjan Madugalle banned Afridi for two matches after holding a hearing following a complaint by on-field umpires Asoka De Silva and Paul Reiffel immediately after the match.

“It is unfortunate what has happened because Afridi was due to lead Pakistan in the Twenty20 match next week against Australia,” coach Intikhab Alam said.

Afridi already had a chequered disciplinary history after being banned for a Test and two one-dayers back in 2005 for deliberately damaging the pitch during a Test match against England.

The day was already a dark one for Pakistan, with the Press Trust of India reporting that the official line of a knee injury keeping Yousuf sidelined was a smokescreen.

"Before the match itself the management had advised Yousuf to take a rest from the fifth match so that Shahid Afridi could lead the team and get some captaincy exposure before the Twenty20 match against Australia next week," a source told PTI.

"But Yousuf flatly refused and insisted he would continue playing. Earlier he had differences with the coaching staff when he wanted TO promote Shahid Afridi up the order and allow Younis Khan to bat lower down the order as he was struggling for form, but again Intikhab refused.

"Apparently there were differences over the issue of dropping Younis Khan and Kamran Akmal for the match after which Yousuf had an argument with Intikhab and Waqar and refused to go for the toss or lead the team."

in the wake of another defeat in Perth, Iqbal Qasim, the chief selector of Pakistan cricket team resigned.

"I am very disappointed, like millions of Pakistanis, over the manner in which the Pakistan team lost the Test series 3-0 and One-day series 5-0," Qasim said.

"As I am responsible for the selection of the team, I quit from my post."

Shoaib Malik is one candidate to take charge of the team for the T20 clash with Australia.

sachin tendulkar smashed 90th international century.

Bangladesh(25-01-2010): Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar hitted a century against Bangladesh today. This is his 45th Test Century, his 5th against, and his90th International century.

Earlier Sachin Tendulkarsmashed a century as Indiastruggled to 243 all out in their first innings just before lunch on the second day of the first test against Bangladesh on Monday.

Tamim Iqbal's brief resistance and Mushfiqur Rahim's crowd-pleasing century were way too inadequate for Bangladesh who had no surprises lined up on the final day. Even with an off-rhythm Sreesanth making it a virtual three-man attack, Ishant Sharma and Zaheer Khan paved India's way to an eventually comfortable win despite their first-innings failure and murky conditions curtailing action on every day of the match. Despite Mushfiqur's knock - the fastest hundred for a Bangladesh player - alongside the tail, they could not last until the final session.

In the end, it was the batsmen who let the Bangladesh bowlers down. Their bowlers might have shown they were better than ordinary, getting India out for 243 in the first innings, but both their batting efforts were ordinary. In the final innings, none of the batsmen showed either the aptitude or the inclination to bat out long periods on a flat pitch and on a day where bad light was bound to cut the day short.

The signs were all there in the first ten minutes of the day. Mohammad Ashraful carried on from an edgy first innings. After surviving two slashes and edges in the first three overs, he drove on the up at an Ishant delivery that held its line enough to take a healthy edge. Raqibul Hasan showed the willingness to fight it out, even taking a blow on the elbow, but Ishant's re-discovered offcutter proved to be too good for him, trapping him plumb in front.

The only bit of fight came from Tamim, who survived the early thorough examination given by Ishant and Zaheer. He concentrated hard, and quelled his natural game for the first hour. Except for one loose drive in the second over, he resisted the cover-drives, and instead relied on bunting the balls close to him for singles. He did not concentrate for long enough, though. The way he tried to open up against Sreesanth and Amit Mishra showed that the first hour had taken a big extra effort. From 27 off 81, when the back-up bowlers were introduced, he moved to 50 off 106, bringing up the milestone with a reverse-sweep.

Eight minutes before lunch, Tamim gave it all away. Virender Sehwag had replaced Sreesanth, and in his second over, Tamim went for a big booming drive when he was close to neither the line nor the length of the delivery. The outside edge was snapped well by an alert Rahul Dravid, and India were sensing the win.

The only man who could hold them up was Shakib Al Hasan, and post the break, he got a special googly from Mishra that kicked at him and took the shoulder of his bat on its way to silly point. Mahmudullah, who scored 69 in the first innings, got into a personal battle with Zaheer, and eventually Bangladesh paid for it. Bouncers, verbals, hooks, upper-cuts, and then a tame edge outside off.

Mushfiqur stood on the burning deck, hit his way to a personal best, added 60 for the eight wicket, then cut, pulled and lofted some more, made Sreesanth mouth off like a madman for no reason, manoeuvred the strike expertly, and managed a consolatory maiden century. Mishra kept at the task, mixing the googlies well with the legbreaks, and took out the last three wickets.

Sri Lanka(SL) vs India(Ind) , 2nd ODI, Tri-Nation, Live Streaming Score, Jan 05, Online, Highlights, Result, 2010

Sri Lanka expectedly cruised to a five-wicket win after India set them a modest score of 279-9 in batting friendly conditions at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium here. Thilan Samaraweera struck his second ODI hundred, Kumar Sangakkara made 60, and Sri Lanka nailed their second straight chase in the Idea Cup, nearly cementing their place in the triangular tournament's final.

• Scores - India vs Sri Lanka, Mirpur
• Brief scores: India 279/9 in 50 overs. Sri Lanka 283/5 in 48 overs

The win was set up by left-arm pacer Chanaka Welegedera, who derailed India's innings taking 5-66, his best in ODIs.

India's job was made hard by the heavy dew in the outfield. After Harbhajan Singh (3-47) revived India with a double break, Zaheer Khan and Ashish Nehra suffered in the batting Power Play, serving up numerous full tosses with the wet ball. Rookie Thissara Parera cashed in a 15-ball 36 to bring the game to an early closure.

India's score after being asked to bat was disappointing. Sri Lanka were without Tillakaratne Dilshan, yet it didn't help matters for India. Sangakkara and Samaraweera added 122 for the third wicket to lay the foundation for the win.

Earlier, Yuvraj Singh struck 73 and added 99 with a sedate Dhoni (37 from 69) after India were at a wobbly 71-3 in the ninth over. Virender Sehwag blazed 47 (31b, 9x4) earlier before becoming the third of Welegedera's victims.

The left-arm pacer had mixed returns, with wicket-taking balls amidst a flurry of wides, no-balls and half volleys. In his second over, he yorked Gautam Gambhir for 8, then conceded 12 in third.

In his fourth -- an over which produced 18 runs -- he had Sehwag caught behind off a no-ball, gave away two Free Hits, got Virat Kohli caught behind, and ended the over with two wides.

In his next over, Sehwag -- batting imperiously on 47 -- chipped one to mid-off.

Ravindra Jadeja's handy 39 (33b) put the batting Power Play to good use. He added 65 with Raina (35 off 46) before Welegedera yorked him, too. Zaheer Khan became his fifth wicket, backing away and leaving his stumps exposed.

With wickets falling in a hurry, India's impetuousness led them to finish poorly when 300 looked likely at one stage.

Seamer Thissara Perera took his first wicket in ODIs, getting Dhoni caught behind. Yuvraj, who holed out to deep mid-wicket, was his second.

India will take on hosts Bangladesh next on January 7.