Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Virat Kohli was the Indian hero, slamming an unbeaten 133 off 86 balls.
Earlier, Tillakaratne Dilshan equalled his best one-day score of 160 and Kumar Sangakkara also made a ton in Hobart as Sri Lanka's batsmen dined out on India's bowling attack.
Dilshan took just 165 balls to reach his total, smashing 11 fours and three sixes, while Sangakkara's 105 off 87 balls - with eight fours and two sixes - lifted Sri Lanka to 4-320 off its 50 overs at the Bellerive Oval.
Dilshan equalled his highest ODI score, also set against India in 2009, with his 11th on-day ton and shared a 200-run second-wicket stand with Sangakkara to leave India the daunting target.
He was out bowled in the 44th over after taking a swipe at Praveen Kumar.Sangakkara flayed the Indian attack with his 13th one-day international century and has now scored 10,152 runs in the limited overs game at 37.88.
Zaheer Khan (1-61), Kumar (1-64) and Ravindra Jadeja (1-43) shared the wickets among India's bowlers.
Scorecard:
| India innings (target: 321 runs from 50 overs) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
 | V Sehwag | c Dilshan b Maharoof | 30 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 187.50 | |
| SR Tendulkar | lbw b Malinga | 39 | 30 | 5 | 0 | 130.00 | |
| G Gambhir | run out (Chandimal/Mathews) | 63 | 64 | 4 | 0 | 98.43 | |
| V Kohli | not out | 133 | 86 | 16 | 2 | 154.65 | ||
| SK Raina | not out | 40 | 24 | 3 | 1 | 166.66 | ||
| Extras | (b 4, lb 6, w 6) | 16 | ||||||
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| Total | (3 wickets; 36.4 overs) | 321 | (8.75 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat MS Dhoni*†, RA Jadeja, R Ashwin, P Kumar, Z Khan, UT Yadav |
| Fall of wickets 1-54 (Sehwag, 6.2 ov), 2-86 (Tendulkar, 9.2 ov), 3-201 (Gambhir, 27.3 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| SL Malinga | 7.4 | 0 | 96 | 1 | 12.52 | (2w) | |
| KMDN Kulasekara | 8 | 0 | 71 | 0 | 8.87 | (1w) | ||
| MF Maharoof | 3 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 7.00 | ||
| NLTC Perera | 7 | 0 | 59 | 0 | 8.42 | (1w) | ||
| AD Mathews | 7 | 0 | 44 | 0 | 6.28 | |||
| HMRKB Herath | 4 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 5.00 | (1w) |
