India and England were lucky to see their captains play matching winning innings but SriLanka was not that lucky. M.S.Dhoni played a good patient knock to make sure that India reach a respectable total after losing losing 4 wickets for 90+. Pieterson was in a better position with openers giving a flying start of 70+ and had the big hitting Flintoff scoring 70+ in quick time to reach 275 in 50 overs and was 90 not out.
India started slowly with Gambhir looking very ordinary and couple of missed run-outs. Kholi played some nice shots in the leg side and reached 25 to get run-out and Gambhir was out in quick time. Yuvraj who showed sign's of getting back to form with a well timed six over mid-wicket got out cheaply poking to good out swinger. Raina was on the other end grafting, Badrinath the hero of the 2nd ODI played one of the worst shots in the given scenario of the match to throw his wicket. Dhoni came in and played a patient knock to build a partnership with Raina to take the score to 140+. When both the batsmen looked to free themselves with some hitting, there was this terrible mix-up and Raina was run out. R.Sharma scored a quick 32 and finally India scored a respectable total of 237.
Srilankans started very badly with losing wickets quickly to be in a bad stage of 59-6. It was left to captain Jayawardane and Thusara to show some resistance and at one stage Jayawardene looked to take the game from India but it was too much for asking. Good to see Zaheer among wickets in this series and looks more fit to give his best. Praveen Kumar has been among wickets but has been giving away too many runs for his wickets. Munaf a good steady bowler is back in thick of action and among wickets and its good for India. Harbajan has been good through out the series with some steady bowling and Yuvraj filled the 5th bowler slot. For Srilankans their top order batsmen Jayasurya,Sangakkara,Silva were not getting runs and jayawardane must be a worried captain.
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