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Dhaka: Thilan Samaraweera (105* off 106 balls) hit a brilliant century to guide Sri Lanka to a comfortable victory over India in the second ODI of the tri-series.
Sri Lanka complete yet another convincing victory on back to back days, beating India this time by 5 wickets in the second game of the Tri-nation series. It was a professional approach by the Sri Lankan side who completed their chase of 280 in 48 overs.
Their top order gave them a good start before India struck back with two wickets. Tharanga (30) and Thirimanne (22) played handy knocks before skipper Sangakkara (60) and Samaraweera (105*) took center stage adding 122 runs for the 3rd wicket.
Lankan skipper departed after setting it up but the later went on to smash his second hundred and took his side home comfortably batting through. Perera unbeaten 36 (15b) played a nice cameo towards the end finishing the game without much hiccups for his side.
Indian bowlers had to cope with the dew factor and apart from Harbhajan (3-47), each of their strike bowlers were quite disappointing going for more than run a ball. Once again toss proved crucial which Sri Lanka won earlier and they even had the result in their favour.
It was a difficult choice for the Man of the Match between Welegedara and Samaraweera. Though, Thilan Samaraweera gets it for staying unbeaten till the end and scoring his 2nd ODI ton.
Sri Lanka lead the table with 8 points and two wins from two games.
Put into bat, India earlier rode on fit-again Yuvraj Singh's well-paced 74 to recover from a top-order wobble to post a competitive 279 for nine.
Virender Sehwag (47), MS Dhoni (37), Suresh Raina (35) and Ravindra Jadeja (39) chipped in with useful cameos but India missed the 300-mark, managing just 20 runs from the last five overs and that proved costly in the end.
Chasing 280 for a win, Sri Lanka got off to a brisk start and Sangakkara and Samaraweera raised 122 runs at a rapid clip to prop up the innings.
Sehwag, who made a quickfire 31-ball 47 and Jadeja, who contributed a 34-ball 39, were the other main contributors.
At one point of time India looked like they would cross 300 but they added just 20 runs from the last five overs, losing four wickets in the process.
Raina, Harbhjan Singh, Zaheer Khan and Jadeja fell in a heap towards the close.
For Sri Lanka, Chanaka Welegedara was the most successful bower with figures of five for 66 while his pace colleagues Thissara Perera and Thilan Thushara chipped in with two wickets each.
Playing their first One-Day International of the year in search of a consistent performance to become world number one in the 50-over format, the strong Indian batting line-up made a shaky start against an inexperienced Sri Lankan bowling with three top order batsmen back to the pavilion by ninth over.
Gautam Gambhir (8), who opened the innings along with Sehwag in absence of Sachin Tendulkar, was done in by a Welegedara yorker.
An unperturbed Sehwag hit three consecutive fours in the sixth over off Suranga Lakmal but was lucky to escape in the next over when Kumar Sangakkara caught him off a Welegedara delivery which was adjudged a no ball.
Welegedara responded by claiming Virat Kohli (9) in that eventful over and returned to see Sehwag's back.
Brief scores
India: 279 for 9 (Yuvraj Singh 74, Sehwag 47, Welegedara 5-66)
Sri Lanka: 283 for 5 (Samaraweera 105*, Sangakkara 60, Harbhajan Singh 3-47)
Result: Sri Lanka won by 5-wickets
MOM: TT Samaraweera (Sri Lanka)
