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| November 13, 2005 | Sunday | Shawwal 10, 1426 |
Irfan sinks Sri Lanka
VADODARA (India), Nov 12: Home favourite Irfan Pathan produced a fine all-round performance as India notched up an easy five-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the seventh and final one-dayer to wrap up the series 6-1.
Irfan grabbed three scalps and slammed a brisk 35 during his first international appearance in his hometown as India raced to the 245-run target with 10.3 overs to spare.
Mahendra Dhoni made things easy with a quickfire 80, adding 83 for the fifth wicket with captain Rahul Dravid (31 not out).
Dhoni, who was named Man-of-the-Series hit nine fours and three sixes off 73 balls.
The day belonged to 21-year-old Irfan, who was on the offensive from early on after being promoted to the number three position, from where he had slammed a quickfire 83 off 70 balls in the opening match in Nagpur.
He smashed four boundaries and two sixes, one each off pacemen Dilhara Fernando and Nuwan Zoysa, in just 23 balls before he fell trying a big hit off Zoysa.
Electing to bat, Sri Lanka were reduced to 85-5 after Rudra’s successes, and only managed the total they did because of a 133-run stand for the sixth wicket between Atapattu (59) and Russell Arnold (68).
Atapattu struck five boundaries during his 55th one-day half-century while Arnold hit seven fours and a six.
Scoreboard
Sri Lanka
T. Samaraweera c Harbhajan b Agarkar 6
U. Tharanga c Dravid b Pathan 6
K. Sangakkara c Yuvraj b Rudra Singh 32
M. Jayawardene c Kartik b Rudra Singh 20
M. Atapattu c Harbhajan b Pathan 59
T. Dilshan c Dhoni b Rudra Singh 4
R. Arnold c Harbhajan b Pathan 68
D. Lokuhetige b Agarkar 5
C. Vaas c Yuvraj b Kartik 11
U. Chandana not out 4
Extras (lb4, w23, nb2) 29
Total (for nine wkts, 50 overs) 244
Fall of wkts: 1-11, 2-20, 3-77, 4-80, 5-85, 6-218, 7-218, 8-227, 9-244.
Bowling: Pathan 10-1-38-3, Agarkar 10-1-47-2, Rudra Singh 10-2-33-3, Harbhajan 10-1-45-0, Kartik 7-0-53-1, Sehwag 3-0-24-0.
India
V. Sehwag c Sangakkara b Fernando 35
S. Tendulkar c and b Zoysa 39
Irfan Pathan c Jayawardene b Zoysa 35
M. Dhoni c Samaraweera b Chandana 80
Mohammad Kaif b Lokuhettige 13
R. Dravid not out 31
Y. Singh not out 0
Extras (lb3, w1, nb8) 12
Total (for five wkts, 39.3 overs) 245
Fall of wkts: 1-53, 2-109, 3-115, 4-157, 5-240
Bowling: Vaas 9.3-1-51-0, Fernando 10-1-72-1, Zoysa 7-0-47-2, Lokuhettige 5-0-29-1, Chandana 6-0-32-1, Dilshan 2-0-11-0.—Agencies
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