Player of the Match
Player of the Match

END OF OVER:
50 | 10 Runs | IND: 375/5 | RR: 7.50

  • Manish Pandey50 (42b)
  • MS Dhoni49 (42b)
  • Lasith Malinga10-0-82-1
  • Vishwa Fernando8-1-76-1

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Raghunath Parth: "Dhoni yet to be dismissed in this series, 2 match winning knocks and 1 knock ensuring a good finish. His presence surely required for this team India."

6.10pm What should've been 450 has now been reduced to 375 for 5. "That itself is a victory for Sri Lanka," says Russell Arnold on commentary. That really sums up what has been another leather hunt. Kohli and Rohit feasted on some toothless bowling to bring up centuries - could have been double centuries to both - before Pandey and Dhoni prevented a middle order slide and provided the late spark. KL Rahul would be disappointed after a third successive failure. Dhawan too would be kicking himself for missing out on what was a belter of a surface. That said, India did enough to stamp their authority. 288 is the highest total successfully chased down here. Sri Lanka will have to do something magical to prevent India from going 4-0 up. Join us in 30 minutes for the chase.

Sri Lanka would feel encouraged by the bowling form of Angelo Mathews. Although gingerly on the field, he mixed his variations. Malinga got to his 300th ODI wicket when he sent back Kohli, but there was not much else to cheer. What they'd be completely dejected with?The fielding and catching.

49.6
1
Malinga to Pandey, 1 run, whips this full delivery to midwicket, there's a half-century for Pandey.
49.5
1
Malinga to Dhoni, 1 run, right into the blockhole, Dhoni squeezes this straight hit to long-on. Dhoni wanted the second but Pandey sent him back, perhaps realising he wouldn't make it in time. Good work by Thirimanne. 100 partnership up
49.4
1
Malinga to Pandey, 1 run, slices this full and wide delivery to point
49.3
2
Malinga to Pandey, 2 runs, squeezes this full and wide delivery to the man coming in from deep extra cover, excellent running

Both batsmen have an opportunity here to finish off with half-centuries

49.2
1
Malinga to Dhoni, 1 run, yorker-length outside off, squeezed to point
49.1
4
Malinga to Dhoni, FOUR, that is a Dhoni special. He was standing on off stump so Malinga fired this full and wide, Dhoni got right towards the delivery and tonked this to deep extra cover. What hand speed

Mr. Unbeaten

73

No. of times MS Dhoni has remained not out in ODIs - the most by any player. He went past Pollock and Vaas who had 72 not outs.

Not big this time

104

Rohit's score in this game - his lowest 100+ score to get out. His last 10 ODI 100s were all of 120+ runs.

Malinga's feat

300

Wickets for Malinga in ODIs. He's the 11th bowler and 8th pacer to do so.

Another ton

29

No. of centuries for Kohli in ODIs - the third-most after Tendulkar (49) and Ponting (30). Kohli has took only 185 innings to score that many compared to Tendulkar's 265 and Ponting's 330.

Big stands

8

No. of 150+ partnerships between Kohli and Rohit - the second-most by any pair in the history of ODIs. Only Tendulkar-Ganguly (12) have added more.

Kohli's bogey team

44

No. of inns taken by Kohli to complete 2000 runs v SL - the joint second-quickest. Tendulkar achieved it in 40 inns v Aus and Viv also took 44 inns to do so against Aus.

Quick fifty

11

Over in which Kohli completed his fifty, which is his quickest in terms of team overs. Previous quickest was 16th over v Pak, Dhaka, 2012 (he finished with 183)

Not chasing today

2

No. of times Kohli has chosen to bat first after winning the toss in 16 attempts, including today. The first was also v SL, at Eden Gardens, in 2014 where Rohit blasted 264.

MSD's milestone

300

No. of ODIs for MS Dhoni. He has become the sixth player from India and 20th overall to appear in 300 or more ODIs. Dhoni has played 297 ODIs for India and 3 for Asia XI.