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| World Cup, Group B, Trinidad: Sri L |
| India are almost certain to follow Pakistan out of the World Cup after a 69-run defeat by Sri Lanka in Trinidad.
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| JAMAICA
, 24-March-2007
1:46:13 AM |
| The remote hope for the 2003 finalists is Bermuda beating Bangladesh on Sunday and even then run-rates would feature.
They began well after putting Sri Lanka in, but Upul Tharanga hit a battling 64 before Chamara Silva and Tillakaratne Dilshan shared 83 to help post 254-6.
India were 44-3 when Sachin Tendulkar fell third ball and despite Rahul Dravid's 60 they were all out for 185.
Robin Uthappa appeared to have been given a license to attack, as he carved Chaminda Vaas for successive boundaries in the fifth over.
But he was brilliantly caught and bowled by the wily left-arm seamer two overs later with the score on 25.
Sourav Ganguly seemed to be playing more of an anchor role, having made only two twos and three singles in his seven from 23 balls.
But in the 11th over he tried an ambitious lofted drive and it skewed to mid-off where Muttiah Muralitharan ran round smartly to take an agile catch.
Virender Sehwag assumed the role of aggressor and lofted Vaas back over his head for an imperious six.
Murali was introduced into the attack after 16 overs but endured a difficult opening over, with two wides and a long-hop which was despatched to the cover boundary.
Sehwag and Dravid recorded their fifty stand from 61 balls and had reduced to requirement to 157 from 27.1 overs.
But Sehwag edged Murali to slip and two wickets fell in successive overs to all-but seal India's fate.
Yuvraj Singh called Dravid for a quick single to backward square but the skipper refused, and despite a wayward throw, bowler Sanath Jayasuriya ample time to remove the bails, with Yuvraj way out of his ground.
Mahendra Dhoni departed first ball and did not even need to look at the umpire when he was beaten by a quicker one from Murali that nipped in and trapped him in front of middle stump.
Dravid then injured his foot and had to bat with a runner, but still managed to smash five fours in an over from Lasith Malinga.
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