Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2008

Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2008
	India	Sri Lanka
Dates	18 July – 29 August 2008
Captains	Anil Kumble (Tests) MS Dhoni (ODIs)	Mahela Jayawardene
Test series
Result	Sri Lanka won the 3-match series 2–1
Most runs	Virender Sehwag (344)	Mahela Jayawardene (279)
Most wickets	Harbhajan Singh (16)	Ajantha Mendis (26)
Player of the series	Ajantha Mendis (SL)
One Day International series
Results	India won the 5-match series 3–2
Most runs	MS Dhoni (193)	Mahela Jayawardene (185)
Most wickets	Zaheer Khan (9)	Ajantha Mendis (13)
Player of the series	MS Dhoni (Ind)

The India national cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 23 July to 29 August.^[1]

Squads

Tests		ODIs
Sri Lanka[2][3][4]	India[5][6]	Sri Lanka[7]	India[8][9]
Mahela Jayawardene (c) Tillakaratne Dilshan Prasanna Jayawardene (wk) Chamara Kapugedera Nuwan Kulasekara Ajantha Mendis Muttiah Muralitharan Dhammika Prasad Thilan Samaraweera Kumar Sangakkara Chamara Silva Thilan Thushara Chaminda Vaas Michael Vandort Malinda Warnapura	Anil Kumble (c) Virender Sehwag (vc) Gautam Gambhir Rahul Dravid Sachin Tendulkar Sourav Ganguly VVS Laxman Rohit Sharma Dinesh Karthik (wk) Parthiv Patel (wk) Harbhajan Singh Ishant Sharma Zaheer Khan RP Singh Munaf Patel Pragyan Ojha	Mahela Jayawardene (c) Tillakaratne Dilshan Dilhara Fernando Sanath Jayasuriya Chamara Kapugedera Nuwan Kulasekara Ajantha Mendis Jehan Mubarak Muttiah Muralitharan Kumar Sangakkara (wk) Chamara Silva Thilan Thushara Mahela Udawatte Chaminda Vaas Malinda Warnapura Kaushalya Weeraratne	MS Dhoni (c & wk) Yuvraj Singh (vc) Virender Sehwag (vc) Sachin Tendulkar Gautam Gambhir Rohit Sharma Suresh Raina Virat Kohli Parthiv Patel (wk) Irfan Pathan Praveen Kumar Harbhajan Singh Zaheer Khan RP Singh Munaf Patel Pragyan Ojha S Badrinath

Test Series

1st Test

23–27 July Scorecard

Sri Lanka	v	India
600/6d (162 overs) Mahela Jayawardene 136 (259) Ishant Sharma 2/124 (33 overs)		223 (72.5 overs) VVS Laxman 56 (118) Muttiah Muralitharan 5/84 (29 overs)
		138 (45 overs) (f/o) Gautam Gambhir 43 (90) Muttiah Muralitharan 6/26 (13 overs)

Sri Lanka won by an innings and 239 runs Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: Mark Benson (Eng) and Billy Doctrove (WI) Player of the match: Muttiah Muralitharan (SL)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
• Bad light ended play early on day 1 as well as day 3.
• Ajantha Mendis (SL) made his Test debut.

2nd Test

31 July – 4 August Scorecard

India	v	Sri Lanka
329 (82 overs) Virender Sehwag 201* (231) Ajantha Mendis 6/117 (28 overs)		292 (93.3 overs) Mahela Jayawardene 86(188) Harbhajan Singh 6/102 (40.3 overs)
269 (76.2 overs) Gautam Gambhir 74 (149) Ajantha Mendis 4/92 (27.2 overs)		136 (47.3 overs) Thilan Samaraweera 67* (126) Harbhajan Singh 4/51 (14 overs)

India won by 170 runs Galle International Stadium, Galle Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Rudi Koertzen (SA) Player of the match: Virender Sehwag (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to bat.
• Bad light ended play early on day 1 as well as day 3.

3rd Test

8–12 August Scorecard

India	v	Sri Lanka
249 (80 overs) Gautam Gambhir 72 (128) Ajantha Mendis 5/56 (28 overs)		396 (134.2 overs) Kumar Sangakkara 144 (288) Harbhajan Singh 3/104 (40.3 overs)
268 (87.5 overs) Rahul Dravid 68 (166) Ajantha Mendis 3/81 (34 overs)		123/2 (33.1 overs) Malinda Warnapura 54* (99) Zaheer Khan 1/22 (6 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Mark Benson (Eng) and Rudi Koertzen (SA) Player of the match: Kumar Sangakkara (SL)

• India won the toss and elected to bat.
• Bad light ended play early on day 2.
• Dhammika Prasad (SL) made his Test debut.

ODI series

1st ODI

18 August Scorecard

India  146 (46 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 147/2 (34.5 overs)
Yuvraj Singh 23 (30) Ajantha Mendis 3/21 (9 overs)		Mahela Jayawardene 62* (80) Munaf Patel 2/32 (9 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Dambulla Umpires: Asoka de Silva (SL) and Billy Doctrove (WI) Player of the match: Ajantha Mendis (SL)

• India won the toss and elected to bat.
• Virat Kohli (Ind) made his ODI debut.

2nd ODI

20 August Scorecard

Sri Lanka  142 (38.4 overs)	v	India 143/7 (39.5 overs)
Thilan Thushara 44 (46) Zaheer Khan 4/21 (9.5 overs)		Mahendra Singh Dhoni 33 (54) Ajantha Mendis 2/22 (10 overs)

India won by 3 wickets Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Dambulla Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Gamini Silva (SL) Player of the match: Zaheer Khan (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to field.
• Subramaniam Badrinath (Ind) made his ODI debut.

3rd ODI

24 August Scorecard

India  237/9 (50 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 204 (49 overs)
Mahendra Singh Dhoni 76 (80) Ajantha Mendis 3/56 (10 overs)		Mahela Jayawardene 94 (111) Munaf Patel 3/42 (10 overs)

India won by 33 runs R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Tyron Wijewardene (SL) Player of the match: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to bat.

4th ODI

27 August Scorecard

India  258 (49.4 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 212 (46.3 overs)
Suresh Raina 76 (78) Thilan Thushara 5/47 (8.4 overs)		Sanath Jayasuriya 60 (52) Harbhajan Singh 3/40 (10 overs)

India won by 46 runs R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Gamini Silva (SL) Player of the match: Suresh Raina (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to bat.

5th ODI

29 August Scorecard

Sri Lanka  227/6 (50 overs)	v	India 103 (26.3 overs)
Thilan Thushara 54 (46) Pragyan Ojha 2/28 (10 overs)		Virat Kohli 31 (46) Ajantha Mendis 4/10 (4.3 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 112 runs (D/L method) R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Tyron Wijewardene (SL) Player of the match: Nuwan Kulasekara (SL)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.

References

1. Schedule of the series
2. "Sri Lanka Squad – 1st Test / Players". ESPNcricinfo.
3. "Sri Lanka Squad – 2nd Test / Players". ESPNcricinfo.
4. "Sri Lanka Squad – 3rd Test / Players". ESPNcricinfo.
5. "India Squad / Players". ESPNcricinfo.
6. "Dhoni pulls out of Sri Lanka Tests". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
7. "Sri Lanka Squad – One-Day / Players". ESPNcricinfo.
8. "India Squad – One Day / Players". ESPNcricinfo.
9. "Tendulkar ruled out of ODI series". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 21 August 2022.