{"id":8875,"date":"2012-07-31T06:41:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T06:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=8875"},"modified":"2012-07-31T06:41:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T06:41:32","slug":"india-defeat-sri-lanka-to-take-2-1-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=8875","title":{"rendered":"India defeat Sri Lanka to take 2-1 lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/cricket\/indian-cricket-team.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"India defeat Sri Lanka to take 2-1 lead\" width=\"250\" height=\"150\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>Colombo: <\/strong>Chasing a target of 287 could never have been be easy,  but thanks to some explosive and sensible batting by Suresh Raina, who  was ably supported by Irfan Pathan towards the end, India managed to  rope in the match with a record chase on Sri Lankan soil and took a 2-1  lead against the hosts in the five-match One-day series at the Premadasa  Stadium here on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>But before the Raina-Irfan onslaught  on Lankan bowlers, it was Gautam Gambhir who yet again played a superb  innings of 102 off 102 balls to lay the foundation for India. With  Virender Sehwag once again failing with the bat, Gambhir took upon  himself the onus of building the Indian innings and added 105 runs with  Virat Kohli (38) for the second wicket until the in-form youngster gave a  simple catch to Herath on his follow through.\n<\/p>\n<p>Indian skipper MS  Dhoni promoted himself ahead of Rohit Sharma and started steadying the  Indian chase and when it looked the duo had taken the game away from the  Lankan Tigers, Dhoni departed to a perfect Yorker from Lasith Malinga  who trapped the struggling Sharma on the very next ball for a duck. The  fall of two wickets off successive deliveries did put India in a tizzy  situation but Raina found an able partner in Pathan and th duo saw India  through with two balls to spare.<\/p>\n<p>Earleir, Mahela Jayawardene won  the toss and decided to bat first. His decision didn\u2019t work for the  team as Sri Lanka lost Dilshan, Tharanga and Chandimal with just 20 runs  on board. <\/p>\n<p>Two of the most experienced Lankan batsmen \u2013  Jayawardene and Sangakkara then stabilized the innings with a century  partnership between them. Rahul Sharma broke the partnership as he  dismissed Mahela (65) in the 30th over.\u00a0 Sangakkara who scored a ton in  the second ODI was dismissed by Ashok Dinda for 73. Just like the Indian  innings, the hosts too were struggling at 182\/5 after which Angelo  Mathews (71*) and Jeevan Mendis (45*) added 104 runs for the sixth  wicket as Sri Lanka posted a formidable total of 286 runs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/cricket\/indian-cricket-team.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"India defeat Sri Lanka to take 2-1 lead\" width=\"250\" height=\"150\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>Colombo: <\/strong>Chasing a target of 287 could never have been be easy,  but thanks to some explosive and sensible batting by Suresh Raina, who  was ably supported by Irfan Pathan towards the end, India managed to  rope in the match with a record chase on Sri Lankan soil and took a 2-1  lead against the hosts in the five-match One-day series at the Premadasa  Stadium here on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>But before the Raina-Irfan onslaught  on Lankan bowlers, it was Gautam Gambhir who yet again played a superb  innings of 102 off 102 balls to lay the foundation for India. With  Virender Sehwag once again failing with the bat, Gambhir took upon  himself the onus of building the Indian innings and added 105 runs with  Virat Kohli (38) for the second wicket until the in-form youngster gave a  simple catch to Herath on his follow through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-cricket-cricket"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>India defeat Sri Lanka to take 2-1 lead - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=8875\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"India defeat Sri Lanka to take 2-1 lead - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Colombo: Chasing a target of 287 could never have been be easy, but thanks to some explosive and sensible batting by Suresh Raina, who was ably supported by Irfan Pathan towards the end, India managed to rope in the match with a record chase on Sri Lankan soil and took a 2-1 lead against the hosts in the five-match One-day series at the Premadasa Stadium here on Saturday.But before the Raina-Irfan onslaught on Lankan bowlers, it was Gautam Gambhir who yet again played a superb innings of 102 off 102 balls to lay the foundation for India. 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