Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Yuvraj, Sehwag hit tons to take India to 363-5 against India


COLOMBO: Yuvraj Singh and Virender Sehwag smashed centuries to help India compile 363 runs for five wickets in the third One-day International being played here at the Premadasa Stadium on Tuesday.Both added 224 runs from only 167 balls for the third wicket after India lost star batsman Sachin Tendulkar and Gautam Gambhir for 24 runs and later Yusuf Pathan along with captain Mahindar Singh Dhoni maintanied this tempo to set Sri Lanka a difficult target of 364 runs. Yuvraj Singh scored 117 runs off 95 balls with 17 fours and a six while Sehwag made 116 from 90 balls with 17 fours.Pathan smashed an unbeaten 59 from only 38 balls with three towering sixes and four boundaries while Dhoni was also not out on 35, made off 45 balls.Muttiah Muralitharan, Ajantha Mendis and Nuwan Kulasekara took one wicket each.Earlier, Dhoni once again won the toss and elected to bat first

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