By IANS
Canberra : Sri Lanka’s eight-wicket win over India in the Commonwealth Bank Triangular One-day Series here Tuesday is their biggest win by wickets over their opponents away from home, eclipsing their seven-wicket win in Goa in December 1990.
It was Sri Lanka’s 17th win in 75 ODIs in Australia. Out of these, the islanders have lost 57 and two matches have ended in a ‘no result’. It was their first in three matches against India in Australia, the other having ended in ‘no result’.
Sri Lanka have won 38 and lost 49 out of 97 matches played against India for a winning percentage of 39.17. Ten matches failed to provide a result.
India, who scored 195 for five wickets, registered the highest ever score at Canberra, eclipsing South Africa’s match-winning total of 164 for three off 45.1 overs against Zimbabwe in 1992.
With two sixes, Sanath Jayasuriya has now 247 sixes to his credit in ODIs — a new record — bettering Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi’s tally of 245.
Tillakaratne Dilshan batted for the first time as an opener, celebrating the occasion with 62 not out off 59 balls. This was his fifth half-century against India is his 11th match.
Dilshan got his second Man of the Match award. He had got his first award against India at Ahmedabad for scoring 81 not out in 2005-06.
Off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan’s series bowling figures are quite interesting. He has captured two wickets in three matches at 64.50, with a strike rate of 75.0 and economy rate of 5.16.