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Seamers restrict Lanka

CRIClNFO, undated
India's fast bowlers bowled a claustrophobic line and length and leftarm spinner Pragyan Ojha strangled Sri Lanka's top order with flight and turn before Thllan I hushara and Jehan Mubarak gave their side a much-needed gasp of air with a crucial partnership in the dead rubber in Colombo.
Mubarak andThushara ensured Sri Lanka can still win this game, especially since conditions at the Prcmadasa do not favour the team battingsecond.
They added 94 in a partnership that included many boundaries coming off edges. Irfan Pathan and RP Singh were at the receiving end -Pathan’s shorter deliveries were edged byThushara past the keeper in an over that cost 14 and RP's errant line was punished for 15 in an over. Thushara topped his 40 in the previous game with his maiden half-century.
Before their stand, India's bowlers had suffocated the Sri lankans to a point where there was no boundary for 20 overs. Zaheer Khan and Munaf Patel got movement off the seam and repeatedly made the batsmen play and miss; Pathan and RP varied their length, with mixed results; and Ojha tossed the ball up and rarely lost control of his length.
The dismissal of the innings was undoubtedly that of Mahela Jayawardene, who fell when a flighted delivery from Ojha on off
and middle dipped in to him. He leaned forward to drive it, the ball turned away and he popped an easy catch to Yuvraj Singh at cover.
Chamara Kapugedera, batting with the lower order, was the one to break the boundary drought when he stepped out and hit Ojha for a four between mldwicket and long-on. But he was out two balls later attempting a similar shot, caught by RP Singh al long-on.Though Mubarak and Thushara took Sri Lanka to a respectable total, it was the stand between Mahela Udawatte and Malinda Warnapura that ensured Sri Lanka weren't bowled out for a low score. lYoubled early in the innings by Zaheer's swing and MunaTs line, Udawatte and Warnapura settled down after the first Powerplay, working out the gaps in the field and choosing to tip and run in order to up the run - rate.
Zaheer tried to hurry them with shorter deliveries and succeeded when the batsmen stood outside the crease. Warnapura and Udawatte also picked out the loose balls over the in-field for boundaries and forced Zaheer and RP to vary their length, which resulted in overpitched deliveries and more boundaries. The two added 39 between overs 10 and 15.
Their 77-run partnership came to an end when Pathan dismissed them in the same over - Warnapura edging a pull to Gautam Gambhir at cover and Udawatte moved across to a good-length delivery to be trapped in front.
Sri Lanka added only 60 runs between overs 20 and 40 and this was
largely due to Ojha, who bowled three maidens in a row. The total would have been a lot less if India hadn't erred in the field, missingrunouts and conceding overthrows.
SCOREBOARD
Scoreboard of Sri Lanka's innings against India in the fifth and final one-day international at r Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Friday: SRI LANKA
Jayasuriya c Ojha b Zaheer ] Warnapura c Gambhir b Pathan 30 Udawatte lbw b Pathan 43 Sangakkara cGambbrb Rudra Pratap 1 Jayawardene c Yuvraj b Ojha 12 Kapugedera cRudra Pratap bOjha 26 , Mubarak not out 47
Thushara not out 54
Extras: (lb-6, nb-l,w6) 13
Total: (For six wkts in 50 overs) 227 Did not bat Kulasekara, Mendis, Fernando.
Fall of wickets: 1-1,2-78,3-80,4-82, 5-104,6-133.
Bowler O M R W
Patel 7 1 20 0
Zaheer 10 1 49 1
Rudra Pratap 8 0 54 1
Pathan 10 0 52 2
Ojha 10 4 28 2
Shanna 2 0 7 0
Yuvraj 3 0 11 0
INDIA: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Rohit Sharma, Irfan Pathan, Zaheer Khan, Munaf Patel, Pragyan Ojha, Rudra Pratap Singh.
Toss: Sri Lanka
Umpires: Billy Doctrove (W1S) and Tyron Wijewardene (SRI)