Welcome to the highlights of Sri Lanka vs India - The 2nd match of the 1996 Singer World Series quadrangular One-Day International cricket tournament between Sri Lanka and India was played at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo on August 28, 1996.
Match Overview:
Dashing opener Sanath Jayasuriya's unbeaten 120, Romesh Kaluwitharana's half-century and Aravinda de Silva's 49* helped to Sri Lanka comfortable nine-wicket victory over India, despite Sachin Tendulkar marked his debut as Indian captain with 110 in the second match of a Singer World Series.
Match Stats:
- Sachin Tendulkar captained India for the first time in his 120th match. He became the 13th player to captain for India in a ODI.
- Sri Lanka's 9-wicket win was their joint largest victory by terms of wickets remaining in one-day international, it is their 2nd time win by nine wickets and 1st time Sri Lanka had defeated India by nine wickets in ODIs.
- Sachin Tendulkar became the first Indian batsman to scored three centuries against Sri Lanka in ODI cricket history.
- Sachin Tendulkar became the first Indian batsman to scored nine centuries in ODI cricket history.
- Sachin Tendulkar's 110 was his joint sixth highest score for India in one-day international and his third highest-score against Sri Lanka in ODIs.
- Sanath Jayasuriya became the third Sri Lankan batsman to score a century against India in ODIs after Roy Dias (2) and Aravinda de Silva (1).
- Sanath Jayasuriya's unbeaten 120 was his third highest score for Sri Lanka in one-day international and the second highest-score by an Sri Lankan batsman against India in ODIs after Roy Dias' 121 at Bengaluru in 1992.
- Sanath Jayasuriya became the third Sri Lankan batsman to scored three centuries in ODIs after Aravinda de Silva (5) and Roshan Mahanama (4).
In-Depth Match Highlights:
India scored 226-5 in 50 overs with top scorer by Sachin Tendulkar struck 110 off 138-balls - which was his 9th ODI hundred and his third century against Sri Lanka in ODIs - including 5-fours & a six.
Mohammad Azharuddin cracked a 58 off 99-balls including a boundary, Vinod Kambli hit 18 off 14-balls included one-six & a four with strike rate of 128.57 and Sourav Ganguly scored 16 off 41-balls contained 3-fours.
Sri Lanka best bowler by Sanath Jayasuriya and Kumar Dharmasena both took one-wickets.
Sri Lanka chase down the target of 227, finishing at 230 for 1 in 44.2 overs with top scorer by Sanath Jayasuriya cracked a unbeaten 120 off 128-balls - which was his 3rd ODI hundred and his first century against India in ODIs.
Romesh Kaluwitharana cracked a 53 off 65-balls including 3-fours and Aravinda de Silva hit a unbeaten 49 off 76-balls included 4-fours.
India best bowler by Sachin Tendulkar took one-wicket for 29-runs in 6-overs.
Sanath Jayasuriya named Player of the match for his match-winning magnificent unbeaten 120-runs knocked off facing 128-balls including 8-fours & 3-sixes.
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