Dilshan Half-Century Brings Sri Lanka CB Series Win

Tillakaratne Dilshan scored a superb half-century as Sri Lanka beat India by virtue of the Duckworth Lewis method, to record their first win, by eight wickets, of the Commonwealth Bank Series in Canberra.

Rain followed the conclusion of India’s innings and as a result Sri Lanka’s innings was reduced to 21 overs and their victory target was revised to 154.

There was a thought before the Indian innings that perhaps a 29 over innings would leave India with a slight dilemma, as to whether they should go for an all out attack as one might associate with Twenty20 cricket, or try and keep wickets in hand as we would expect to see in ODI cricket.

However, given that Sri Lanka’s innings had been altered to 21 overs it was always possible they would feel they had the freedom to approach their run chase like it was a Twenty20 innings. This proved to be the case as the Sri Lankan opening batsmen raced to 41 from just three overs before Sanath Jayasuriya was caught by MS Dhoni off Ishant Sharma for a swashbuckling 27 from just 13 balls.

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