Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2012

Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2012
	Sri Lanka	India
Dates	21 July – 7 August
Captains	Mahela Jayawardene Angelo Mathews (5th ODI and Only T20I)	MS Dhoni
One Day International series
Results	India won the 5-match series 4–1
Most runs	Kumar Sangakkara (206)	Virat Kohli (296)
Most wickets	Thisara Perera (8) Lasith Malinga (8)	Irfan Pathan (8)
Player of the series	Virat Kohli (Ind)
Twenty20 International series
Results	India won the 1-match series 1–0
Most runs	Angelo Mathews (31)	Virat Kohli (68)
Most wickets	Shaminda Eranga (2)	Ashok Dinda (4)
Player of the series	Virat Kohli (Ind)

The Indian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 21 July to 7 August 2012. The tour consisted of five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and one Twenty20 International (T20I). India landed to Sri Lanka 18 July 2012. ^[1]

Squad

ODI		T20I
Sri Lanka [2]	India [3] [4]	Sri Lanka	India [5]
Mahela Jayawardene (c) Angelo Mathews (vc) Dinesh Chandimal Tillakaratne Dilshan Nuwan Pradeep Rangana Herath Chamara Kapugedera Lasith Malinga Jeevan Mendis Thisara Perera Kumar Sangakkara (wk) Sachithra Senanayake Upul Tharanga Lahiru Thirimanne Isuru Udana	MS Dhoni (c & wk) Virat Kohli (vc) Gautam Gambhir Rohit Sharma Suresh Raina Manoj Tiwary Ravichandran Ashwin Vinay Kumar Rahul Sharma Ashok Dinda Pragyan Ojha Virender Sehwag Zaheer Khan Umesh Yadav Ajinkya Rahane	Mahela Jayawardene (c) Angelo Mathews (vc) Dinesh Chandimal Tillakaratne Dilshan Nuwan Pradeep Rangana Herath Chamara Kapugedera Lasith Malinga Jeevan Mendis Thisara Perera Kumar Sangakkara (wk) Sachithra Senanayake Upul Tharanga Lahiru Thirimanne Isuru Udana	MS Dhoni (c & wk) Virat Kohli (vc) Gautam Gambhir Rohit Sharma Suresh Raina Manoj Tiwary Ravichandran Ashwin Vinay Kumar Rahul Sharma Ashok Dinda Pragyan Ojha Virender Sehwag Zaheer Khan Umesh Yadav Ajinkya Rahane

ODI series

All times local (UTC+5:30)

All matches were Day Night

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1st ODI

21 July 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard

India 314/6 (50 overs)	v	Sri Lanka   293/9 (50 overs)
Virat Kohli 106 (113) Thisara Perera 3/70 (10 overs)		Kumar Sangakkara 133 (151) Irfan Pathan 2/37 (10 overs)

India won by 21 runs Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Hambantota Umpires: Ranmore Martinesz (SL) and Bruce Oxenford (Aus) Player of the match: Virat Kohli (IND)

• India won the toss and chose to bat.

2nd ODI

24 July 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard

India 138 (33.3 overs)	v	Sri Lanka   139/1 (19.5 overs)
Gautam Gambhir 65 (96) Angelo Mathews 3/14 (7 overs)		Upul Tharanga 59 (60) Ravichandran Ashwin 1/18 (5 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 9 wickets Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Hambantota Umpires: Bruce Oxenford (Aus) and Ruchira Palliyaguruge (SL) Player of the match: Thisara Perera (SL)

• India won the toss and chose to bat.

3rd ODI

28 July 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard

Sri Lanka   286/5 (50 overs)	v	India 288/5 (49.4 overs)
Kumar Sangakkara 73 (95) Zaheer Khan 2/39 (10 overs)		Gautam Gambhir 102 (101) Rangana Herath 1/36 (9 overs)

India win by 5 wickets R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Kumar Dharmasena (SL) and Bruce Oxenford (Aus) Player of the match: Suresh Raina (Ind)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat.

4th ODI

31 July 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard

Sri Lanka   251/8 (50 overs)	v	India 255/4 (42.2 overs)
Upul Tharanga 51 (73) Manoj Tiwary 4/61 (10 overs)		Virat Kohli 128 (119) Angelo Mathews 1/18 (6 overs)

India won by 6 wickets R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Kumar Dharmasena (SL) and Bruce Oxenford (Aus) Player of the match: Virat Kohli (Ind)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat.

5th ODI

4 August 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard

India 294/7 (50 overs)	v	Sri Lanka   274 (45.4 overs)
Gautam Gambhir 88 (99) Lasith Malinga 3/64 (10 overs)		Lahiru Thirimanne 77 (96) Irfan Pathan 5/61 (10 overs)

India won by 20 runs Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy Umpires: Tyron Wijewardene (SL) and Bruce Oxenford (Aus) Player of the match: Irfan Pathan (Ind)

• India won the toss and chose to bat
• Zaheer Khan played his last ODI match.
• Gautam Gambhir completed his 5000 odi runs for India.

T20I

All times local (UTC+5:30)

7 August 19:00 (D/N) Scorecard

India 155/3 (20 overs)	v	Sri Lanka   116 (18 overs)
Virat Kohli 68 (48) Shaminda Eranga 2/30 (4 overs)		Angelo Mathews 31 (29) Ashok Dinda 4/19 (3 overs)

India won by 39 runs Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy Umpires: Kumar Dharmasena (SL) and Tyron Wijewardene (SL) Player of the match: Irfan Pathan (Ind)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.

Statistics

ODI

Batting

Player	Matches	Innigs	Runs	Average	Strike rate	50s	100s	High score
Virat Kohli	5	5	290	74	87.83	0	2	128*
Gautam Gambhir	5	5	286	51.60	84.03	2	1	102
Kumar Sangakkara	3	2	206	103	83.73	1	1	133
Upul Tharanga	5	5	177	44.25	80.09	2	0	59*
Suresh Raina	5	5	174	58	118.36	3	0	65*

Full table at ESPNcricinfo

Bowling

Player	Matches	Innings	Wickets	Average	Strike rate	Economy rate	5 wickets	Best figures
Irfan Pathan	5	5	8	26.37	30.0	5.27	1	5/61
Thisara Perera	5	5	8	31.25	32.2	5.81	0	3/19
Lasith Malinga	5	5	8	35.50	34.1	6.24	0	3/64
Angelo Mathews	5	5	5	33.60	44.0	4.58	0	3/14
Ravichandran Ashwin	5	5	5	39.40	52.8	4.47	0	2/46

Full table at ESPNcricinfo

T20s

Batting

Player	Matches	Innings	Runs	Ball faced	Average	Strike rate	30s	50s	100s	High score	Fours	Sixes
Virat Kohli	1	1	68	48	68	141.66	0	1	0	68	11	1
Suresh Raina	1	1	34	25	-	136	1	0	0	34*	3	1
Angelo Mathews	1	1	31	29	31	106.89	1	0	0	31	3	0
Mahela Jayawardene	1	1	26	19	26	136.84	0	0	0	26	5	0
Ajinkya Rahane	1	1	21	25	21	84	0	0	0	21	0	1

Full Table at ESPNcricinfo

Bowling

Player	Matches	Innings	Wickets	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Average	Strike rate	Economy rate	4 wickets	5 wickets	Best figures
Ashok Dinda	1	1	4	3	0	19	4.75	4.50	6.33	1	0	4/19
Irfan Pathan	1	1	3	4	0	27	9	8	6.75	0	0	3/27
Shaminda Eranga	1	1	2	4	0	30	15	12	7.50	0	0	2/30
Ajantha Mendis	1	1	1	2	0	13	13	12	6.50	0	0	1/13
Ravichandran Ashwin	1	1	1	4	0	22	22	24	5.50	0	0	1/22

Full Table at ESPNcricinfo

References

1. "Sri Lanka series chance to assess team - Dhoni" . Retrieved 18 July 2012.
2. "Sri Lanka v India/Sri Lanka Squad".
3. "Sri Lanka v India/India One-Day Squad".
4. "Team India for Sri Lanka tour: Virender Sehwag, Zaheer Khan stage comeback; Ravindra Jadeja axed". The Times of India . Archived from the original on 5 July 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
5. "Sri Lanka v India/India Twenty20 Squad".
6. "India tour of Sri Lanka, 2012 /Fixtures".

External links

• ESPNcricinfo - India tour of Sri Lanka, 2012
• India tour of Sri Lanka, 2012/Statistics