IND vs SRL Tri-Series Final Result - Dilshan and Perera Stars in Sri Lanka's 74 runs win

Sri Lanka took the revenge of Asia Cup defeat last month as they beat India by 74 runs in the high scoring final of Micromax Tri Series on Saturday, 28th August, 2010 at Dambulla. SRL made 299/8 in 50 overs and IND all out on 225 runs in 46.5 overs.

Sri Lanka got the best opening partnership of the tournament of 121 runs in 20 overs on their way to post highest score of the series 299 runs thanks to Dilshan's superb century 110 runs off 115 balls with 12 fours and a six well supported by captain Sangakkara with 62 balls 71 runs. Only Munaf Patel and Yuvraj Singh bowled well with good economy rate.

India again then got a bad start as Karthik given out wrongly and lost 4 wickets on109 runs before Dhoni and Raina put some resistance. Perera again the destroyer with 3 wickets for 37 runs as only Dhoni put some fight with 67 runs.

Match Summary:

Sri Lanka - 299/9 in 50 overs (Dilshan 110, Sangakkra 71, Munaf 2-43)

India - 225 all out in 46.5 overs (Dhoni 67, Perera 3-36, Randiv 3-40)

Toss - Sri Lanka, who chose to bat.

Man of the Match - Tilakratne Dilshan (Sri Lanka)

Man of the Series - Virender Sehwag (India)

Result - Sri Lanka won by 74 runs.