Sri Lanka elect to bat against India
Sri Lankan skipper Kumar Sangakkara won the toss and decided to bat against India in the tri-series final at Dambulla on Saturday.
Both the teams find themselves face to face in a final clash for the second time in just over a month after Kumar Sangakkara’s men finished on the losing side in the Asia Cup finals in June.
The ongoing tri-series, however, has been a lot more dramatic then the Asia Cup both on and off the field.
The 105-run triumph over New Zealand may make it seem that India are in destructive form but the fact remains that had it not been Sehwag’s individual brilliance, the Indians could well have found it hard to put it past the depleted but spirited Kiwis.
India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh, Ravindra Jadeja, Dinesh Karthik, R Ashwin, Praveen Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Abhimanyu Mithun, Ashish Nehra, Pragyan Ojha, Saurabh Tiwary, Munaf Patel.
Sri Lanka: Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardene, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Dilhara Fernando, Rangana Herath, Suraj Randiv, Chamara Kapugedera, Nuwan Kulasekara, Lasith Malinga, Angelo Mathews, Ajantha Mendis, Thisara Perera, Thilan Samaraweera, Chamara Silva, Upul Tharanga.