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| August 10, 2005 | Wednesday | Rajab 4, 1426 |
Lanka cap Jayasuriya’s feat with trophy
COLOMBO, Aug 9: Sri Lanka celebrated Sanath Jayasuriya’s feat of completing 10,000 runs in one-day cricket with an 18-run victory over India in the triangular series final on Tuesday. The left-handed opener, who was 10 runs short of the landmark, made 67 while Mahela Jayawardene top-scored with a solid 83 to help Sri Lanka post 281-9 in the day-night match on a good batting track.
Jayasuriya joined India’s Sachin Tendulkar (13,642) and Sourav Ganguly (10,020) and Pakistan’s Inzamamul Haq (10,933) in the 10,000-club. India were strongly placed at 186-2 before losing their way under lights. They finished at 263-9 despite skipper Rahul Dravid’s impressive 69 and Virender Sehwag’s blazing 48 off just 22 balls.
India got off to an explosive start when they plundered 61 in the opening six overs. Sehwag did the bulk of scoring as he hammered Dilhara Lokuhettige for 26 runs in one over, including one six and five fours. Chaminda Vaas provided the crucial breakthrough when he dismissed Sehwag who was bowled off an inside-edge.
Dravid and Yuvraj Singh (42) kept alive India’s hopes of chasing a stiff target with an 84-run stand for the third wicket. The match swung in Sri Lanka’s favour when Yuvraj and Dravid fell in the space of 19 runs.
India, who had dropped a batsman to accommodate an extra specialist bowler, choked after the dismissals of Dravid and Yuvraj. They lost their last seven wickets for just 60 runs to suffer their third successive defeat against the hosts, including two in the league matches.
Sri Lanka were indebted to Jayawardene, Jayasuriya and Russel Arnold (64) to post a challenging total after winning the toss.
Jayawardene and Arnold put on 125 for the fifth wicket to build on Jayasuriya’s effort after their team had looked in trouble for a short period.
Sri Lanka lost three wickets in the space of seven overs and 35 runs. Left-arm seamer Ashish Nehra took all the scalps and went on to finish with 6-59, his second-best haul in one-dayers.
The hosts survived Nehra’s early triple-strike as Jayasuriya, Jayawardene and Arnold batted confidently against both seamers and spinners.
Their catching also left much to be desired as wicket-keeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni dropped both Jayasuriya and Jayawardene off left-arm fast bowler Irfan Pathan. Jayasuriya was on 19 and Jayawardene on 20 when let off.
Jayasuriya went on to dominate the Indian attack during his 58th half-century in 337 matches. He was caught short of the crease while coming back for a second run.
He put Sri Lanka in a strong position with his 77-ball knock before Jayawardene and Arnold consolidated their team’s position.
SCOREBOARD
Sri Lanka:
M. Atapattu b Nehra 11
S. Jayasuriya run out 67
D. Lokuhettige lbw b Nehra 9
K. Sangakkara c Sehwag b Nehra 8
M. Jayawardene c Kaif b Nehra 83
R. Arnold run out 64
T. Dilshan b Nehra 7
C. Vaas not out 18
U. Chandana c Harbhajan b Nehra 2
M. Muralitharan run out 0
Extras (lb2, nb2, w8) 12
Total (for nine wickets, 50 overs) 281
Fall of wkts: 1-32, 2-46, 3-67, 4-122, 5-247, 6-257, 7-262, 8-268, 9-281.
Bowling: Pathan 9-0-59-0, Zaheer 9-1-43-0, Nehra 10-1-59-6, Harbhajan 10-0-40-0, Kumble 10-0-64-0, Sehwag 2-0-14-0.
India:
S. Ganguly lbw b Dilshan 26
V. Sehwag b Vaas 48
R. Dravid run out 69
Y. Singh c Lokuhettige b Chandana 42
M. Kaif c Atapattu b Vaas 31
M. S. Dhoni lbw b Chandana 7
I. Pathan b Muralitharan 1
H. Singh run out 0
Z. Khan c sub (Tharana) b Muralitharan 5
A. Kumble not out 9
A. Nehra not out 9
Extras (b7, lb1, nb1, w7) 16
Total (for nine wickets, 50 overs) 263
Fall of wkts: 1-62, 2-102, 3-186, 4-205, 5-216, 6-219, 7-223, 8-229, 9-246.
Bowling: Vaas 10-1-38-2, Maharoof 6-0-48-0, Lokuhettige 5-0-41-0, Dilshan 7-0-42-1, Muralitharan 10-0-35-2, Jayasuriya 0.1-0-1-0, Chandana 9.5-0-38-2, Arnold 2-0-12-0.—Agencies
List of leading ODI run scorers
(tabulate under matches, innings, not outs, highest score, average, 100s, 50s)
Batsman M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50
Sachin Tendulkar (India) 348 339 32 13642 186 * 44.43 38 38
Inzamamul Haq (Pakistan) 344 320 46 10933 137 * 39.90 10 81
Saurav Ganguly (India) 274 265 21 10020 183 41.23 + 22 60
Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka) 337 328 15 10057 189 32.04 + 18 58
Mohammad Azharuddin (India) 334 308 54 9378 153 * 36.92 7 58
Brian Lara (West Indies) 256 249 26 9354 169 41.94 19 57
Aravinda de Silva (Sri Lanka) 308 296 30 9284 145 34.90 11 64
Saeed Anwar (Pakistan) 247 244 19 8823 194 39.21 20 43
Desmond Haynes (West Indies) 238 237 28 8648 152 * 41.37 17 57
Mark Waugh (Australia) 244 236 20 8500 173 39.35 18 50
Ricky Ponting (Australia) 232 226 28 8290 145 41.86 18 45
Rahul Dravid (India) 257 236 29 8250 153 40.04 + 10 61
Note: *denotes not out +denotes match in progress, averages do not take into account current match figures.
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