Triangular Series in Sri Lanka in the 2010 season

The Triangular Series in Sri Lanka in the 2010 season was a three-nation tournament that was held from August 10 to 28, 2010 in Sri Lanka in one-day cricket . In addition to the host, teams from India and New Zealand took part in the tournament, which was part of the 2010 international cricket season . In the final, Sri Lanka was able to prevail against India with 74 runs.

prehistory

India and Sri Lanka previously competed against each other on a tour in Sri Lanka . New Zealand previously played a tour against Sri Lanka in the USA .

format

In a preliminary round, each team played twice against each other. There were four points for a win, two points for a draw or no result. Bonus points were also awarded. The first two of the group qualified for the final and played for the tournament victory.

Stadion

Dambulla

Tour venues

The following stadium was selected as the venue.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium	Dambulla	16,800	Preliminary round & final

Squad lists

The teams named the following squads.

ODI
Sri Lanka	India	New Zealand
Kumar Sangakkara ( K & wk ) Mahela Jaywardene ( UK ) Tillakaratne Dilshan Dilhara Fernando Rangana Herath Suraj Randiv Chamara Kapugedera Nuwan Kulaskera Lasith Malinga Angelo Mathews Ajantha Mendis Thisara Perera Thilan Samaraweera Chamara Silva Upul Tharanga	Mahendra Singh Dhoni ( K & wk ) Virender Sehwag ( UK ) Ravichandran Ashwin Ravindra Jadeja Dinesh Karthik ( wk ) Virat Kohli Praveen Kumar Abhimanyu Mithun Ashish Nehra Pragyan Ojah Munaf Patel Suresh Raina Ishant Sharma Rohit Sharma Saurabh Tiwary Yuvraj Singh	Ross Taylor ( K ) Grant Elliott Martin Guptill Gareth Hopkins ( wk ) Peter Ingram Nathan McCullum Andy McKay Kyle Mills Jacob Oram Jeetan Patel Jesse Ryder Tim Southee Scott Styris Daryl Tuffey BJ Watling Kane Williamson

Games

Preliminary round

table

Teams	Sp.	S.	N	U	R.	NO	BP	Points	NRR
Sri Lanka	3	2	1	0	0	0	1	9	+0.960
India	4th	2	2	0	0	0	2	10	-0.946
New Zealand	3	1	2	0	0	0	1	5	+0.394

Win: 4 points; Draw: 2 points

Games

August 10th scorecard	Dambulla	New Zealand 288 (48.5)	-	India 88 (29.3)
		New Zealand wins with 200 runs

August 13th scorecard	Dambulla	New Zealand 192 (48.1)	-	Sri Lanka 195-7 (40.5)
		Sri Lanka wins with 3 wickets

August 16 scorecard	Dambulla	Sri Lanka 170 (46.1)	-	India 171-4 (34.3)
		India wins with 6 wickets

19. – 20. August scorecard	Dambulla	Sri Lanka 203-3 (43.4)	-	New Zealand
		No result

August 22nd scorecard	Dambulla	India 103 (33.4)	-	Sri Lanka 104-2 (15.1)
		Sri Lanka wins with 8 wickets

August 25 scorecard	Dambulla	India 223 (46.3)	-	New Zealand 118 (30.1)
		India wins with 105 runs

final

August 28th scorecard	Dambulla	Sri Lanka 299-8 (50)	-	India 225 (46.5)
		Sri Lanka wins with 74 runs

India was fined for playing too slowly.

Web links

• The tournament on espncricinfo.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sri Lanka Tri Series 2010 Table ( English ) Cricket Archive. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
2. ↑ India fined for slow over-rate ( English ) Cricinfo. August 29, 2010. Retrieved July 22, 2016.