Indian national cricket team in Sri Lanka for the 2008-09 season

The tour of the Indian national cricket team to Sri Lanka in the 2008-09 season took place from January 28th to February 10th, 2009. The international cricket tour was part of the 2008-09 international cricket season and included five ODIs and one Twenty20 . India won the ODI series 4-1 and the Twenty20.

Stages

Colombo (RPS) Dambulla

Tour venues

The following stages were planned as venues for the tour and announced on January 15, 2009.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
R. Premadasa Stadium (RPS)	Colombo	35,000	2nd - 5th ODI; 1. T20
Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium	Dambulla	16,800	1. ODI

Squad lists

India named its roster on January 18, 2009. Sri Lanka named its roster on January 26, and its Twenty20 roster on February 3, 2009.

ODI		Twenty20
Sri Lanka	India	Sri Lanka	India
Mahela Jayawardene ( K ) Tillakaratne Dilshan Dilhara Fernando Sanath Jayasuriya Thilina Kandamby Chamara Kapugeddera Nuwan Kulasekara Farveez Maharoof Angelo Mathews Ajantha Mendis Jehan Mubarak Muttiah Muralitharan Kumar Sangakkara ( wk ) Upul Tharanga Thilan Thushara	MS Dhoni ( K & wk ) Lakshmipathy Balaji Gautam Gambhir Ravindra Jadeja Zaheer Khan Praveen Kumar Pragyan Ojha Irfan Pathan Yusuf Pathan Suresh Raina Virender Sehwag Ishant Sharma Rohit Sharma Yuvraj Singh Sachin Tendulkar	Tillakaratne Dilshan ( K ) Chamara Kapugedera ( vK ) Malinga Bandara Indika de Saram ( wk ) Dilhara Lokuhettige Dilhara Fernando Sanath Jayasuriya Jeevantha Kulatunga Farveez Maharoof Lasith Malinga Jehan Mubarak Chamara Silva Thilan Thushara Mahela Udawatte Kaushalya Weeraratne	MS Dhoni ( K & wk ) Lakshmipathy Balaji Gautam Gambhir Ravindra Jadeja Zaheer Khan Praveen Kumar Pragyan Ojha Irfan Pathan Yusuf Pathan Suresh Raina Virender Sehwag Ishant Sharma Rohit Sharma Yuvraj Singh

One-day internationals

First ODI in Dambulla

January 28th scorecard	Dambulla	Sri Lanka 246-7 (50)	-	India 247-4 (48.1)
		India wins with 6 wickets

Second ODI in Colombo (RPS)

January 31 scorecard	Colombo	India 256-9 (50)	-	Sri Lanka 241 (49.2)
		India wins with 15 runs

Third ODI in Colombo (RPS)

February 3rd scorecard	Colombo	India 363-5 (50)	-	Sri Lanka 216 (41.4)
		India wins with 147 runs

Fourth ODI in Colombo (RPS)

February 5th scorecard	Colombo	India 332-5 (50)	-	Sri Lanka 265 (48)
		India wins with 67 runs

Fifth ODI in Colombo (RPS)

February 8 scorecard	Colombo	Sri Lanka 320-8 (50)	-	India 252 (48.5)
		Sri Lanka wins with 68 runs

Twenty20 International in Colombo (RPS)

February 10 scorecard	Colombo	Sri Lanka 171-4 (20)	-	India 174-7 (19.2)
		India wins with 3 wickets

The Sri Lankan players were fined for playing too slowly.

statistics

The following cricket statistics were obtained on this tour.

ODIs
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Yuvraj Singh	India	5	5	284	56.80	117	1	2
Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	5	5	271	54.20	84	0	3
MS Dhoni	India	5	5	266	88.66	94	0	3
Gautam Gambhir	India	5	5	262	52.40	150	1	1
Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka	5	5	188	37.60	107	1	0
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Ishant Sharma	India	5	40	10	24.30	4/57	0	0
Pragyan Ojha	India	4th	37	7th	23.28	4/38	0	0
Nuwan Kulasekara	Sri Lanka	5	45	7th	38.00	3/63	0	0
Praveen Kumar	India	3	24.2	5	20.20	2/38	0	0
Ajantha Mendis	Sri Lanka	4th	39	5	39.80	2/44	0	0
Farveez Maharoof	Sri Lanka	5	40.5	5	49.80	2/40	0	0
Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka	5	50	5	50.20	2/41	0	0

Twenty20
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka	1	1	61	61.00	61	0	1
Suresh Raina	India	1	1	35	35.00	35	0	0
Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka	1	1	33	33.00	33	0	0
Irfan Pathan	India	1	1	33		33 *	0	0
Yuvraj Singh	India	1	1	32	32.00	32	0	0
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Malinga Bandara	Sri Lanka	1	4th	3	10.66	3/32	0	0
Yusuf Pathan	India	1	4th	2	11.50	2/23	0	0
Jehan Mubarak	Sri Lanka	1	1	1	9.00	1/9	0	0
Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka	1	3	1	10.00	1/10	0	0
Thilan Thushara	Sri Lanka	1	3	1	27.00	1/27	0	0
Irfan Pathan	India	1	4th	1	34.00	1/34	0	0
Ishant Sharma	India	1	4th	1	40.00	1/40	0	0

Player of the Series

The following players were honored as Player of the Series .

series	Player of the Series
ODI	Yuvraj Singh

Player of the Match

The following players were recognized as Player of the Match .

game	Player of the Match
1. ODI	Sanath Jayasuriya
2. ODI	Ishant Sharma
3. ODI	Yuvraj Singh
4. ODI	Gautam Gambhir
5. ODI	Kumar Sangakkara
1. T20	Yusuf Pathan

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SLC announces Indian itinerary ( English ) Cricinfo. January 15, 2009. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
2. ↑ Jadeja earns call-up, Praveen returns ( English ) Cricinfo. January 18, 2009. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
3. ↑ Sri Lanka unchanged for first three ODIs ( English ) Cricinfo. January 26, 2009. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
4. ↑ Sri Lanka rest key players for Twenty20 clash ( English ) Cricinfo. February 3, 2009. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
5. ↑ Sri Lanka fined for over-rate ( English ) Cricinfo. February 10, 2008. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
6. ↑ Records / India in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2008/09 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
7. ↑ Records / India in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2008/09 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
8. ↑ Records / India in Sri Lanka T20I Match, 2008/09 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
9. ↑ Records / India in Sri Lanka T20I Match, 2008/09 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved June 30, 2016.