Sri lanka won the toss and elected to bat and after 20 overs are 62/2 both teams are struggling to find help from their bench and are suffering from similar problems. I was a bit surprised at the Indian selection they again persisted with Uthappa who is completely out of sorts, both India and Srilanka are suffering from sudden batting collapses and both have a hole in their line up in the lower middle order.
Srilanka after losing its openers are trying to grind out the middle overs and are trying to preserve wickets for the slog overs, Sangakara is in top form but he is not getting much help from other Srilankan batsmen. This match is important for both the teams although they will face each other one more time but both are desperate to earn additional point to reach the finals. India made a mistake by not playing Sehwag he should have been given preference over Uthappa.
India clinched a thriller from Srilanka who again failed to capitalize on the platform laid by Sangakara, Yuvraj finally scored and came out of his bad patch he played a fantastic innings of 76 Yuvraj got out with India still requiring 81 runs to win but Captain Dhoni saw them home in a tense finish with two wickets to spare.
Earlier India were reeling at 35/3 and the match was slipping away from India that Yuvraj came to crease and batted fluently he struck 10 fours and 1 six in his 76 and Dhoni played a very sensible innings identifying his role and played according to the situation and took no risk he played an uncharacteristic knock of 50 with no boundaries.
Srilanka still have a chance to reach the finals but they will have to win most of their remaining games.


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