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| Sri Lanka tour of India - 5 Day Test (1st Match) |
| | November 16 - November 20 |
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| Finished | India |  | | 426/10 | 412/4 |
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| | Sri Lanka |  | | 760/7d | |
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| Mahela Jayawardene is the Man of the Match for his 275, his 27th Test century: "All the batsmen could have done that. The last time I toured India I had a few fifties; it is always a challenge coming here. I got good support on the way and all in all it was a great Test match." |
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| Man Of The match: DPMD Jayawardene(SRI) Runs:275 - Balls:435 - 4s:27 - 6s:1 - S/R:63.21 |
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| Dhoni: "We had to handle our nerves and that's what showed. We're proud of this achievement. The series will go close. We can bowl more disciplined lines, but apart from that the bowlers bowled their hearts out. It wasn't easy. We're not worried about the batting. We expected the track to have a bit more bounce for the spinners, but it favored the batsmen." |
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| Sangakkara: "A bit disappointed but a few surprises. The Jayawardenes, Dilshan and Samaraweera played well. We showed a lot of fight and spunk. It was a pretty flat track. We were thinking positive and needed something to go our way today but that didn't happen. But we're not too disappointed. Welegedara having to step in on the morning of the match, did fantastically. Prasad showed a lot heart to bowl at 140 plus with a hamstring. It's nice to see people put their hands up." |
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| In five days we've had 21 wickets and seven centuries. |
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| Two of them came today and those helped India save this Test. Gambhir and Tendulkar batted well to save this match. Tendulkar is applauded and back-slapped as he heads into the pavilion. He and Gambhir were superb in application today. Sri Lanka were rather flat on an unresponsive track |
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| Laxman played a good hand towards the end and once Tendulkar reached his hundred, both captains agreed to call the game off. |
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| 128.6 | | Welegedara to Laxman, 0 |
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| No run. Fuller length delivery on the middle, turns it towards square leg for no run. |
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| 128.5 | | Welegedara to Laxman, 0 |
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| No run. Fuller length delivery just outside the off stump, left alone. |
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| 128.4 | | Welegedara to Tendulkar, 1 |
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| 1 Run. Fuller length delivery just outside the off stump, pushes towards mid-off for a quick single, with this Tendulkar gets his 43rd Test Hundred |
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| 128.3 | | Welegedara to Tendulkar, 0 |
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| No run. Just outside the off stump, leans forward and pushes towards mid-on for no run. |
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| 128.2 | | Welegedara to Tendulkar, 0 |
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| No run. Just outside the off stump, pushes towards point for no run. |
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| 128.1 | | Welegedara to Tendulkar, 0 |
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| No run. Good length delivery just outside the off stump and angling away, left alone. |
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| No run. Flighted delivery on the off, drives it to mid-off for no run. |
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| 127.5 | | Herath to Tendulkar, 1 |
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| 1 Run. Flighted delivery on the legs, leans forward and turns it towards backward square leg for a run. |
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| 127.4 | | Herath to Tendulkar, 0 |
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| No run. Well outside and no shot offered |
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| 127.3 | | Herath to Tendulkar, 0 |
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| No run. Tossed up outside leg, padded away once more, the crowd getting really irritated now |
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| 127.2 | | Herath to Tendulkar, 0 |
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| No run. Flighted delivery just down the legs, tries to paddle it misses. |
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